Connecting things, and the challenge

I’m building a todo app. And sometimes I ask myself:

“Am I just making another todo app?”

Search “todo” on the App Store and it never ends. Todoist, TickTick, Things 3, Microsoft To Do, Apple Reminders. Great apps already exist. What’s the point of adding one more?

But I keep building, because what I want is slightly different.

What I want to connect

There are easy tasks and hard tasks.

“Buy groceries” — write it down and you’re done. Nothing to plan, nothing to think about. A title is enough.

“Career change” — different story. When is the deadline, what’s been done so far, what did I learn when it’s over. A title isn’t enough.

Most apps do one well. Simple apps are great for “buy groceries” but can’t hold “career change.” Complex apps handle “career change” but feel heavy even when you’re just writing “buy groceries.”

I wanted to connect these two. In the same app, the same way. Start with a title, expand as you need.

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There’s work you do alone and work you do together.

Most tasks start solo. But at some point, you need to share. “Let’s do this together.” If that means switching to a different app, the flow breaks.

Inviting a teammate to a task you started alone, seeing it together, finishing it together — I wanted that to happen inside the same app.

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There’s familiar work and unfamiliar work.

Things you do every day become routines. Your body remembers, your hands move first. That’s your own way.

But sometimes you wonder if there’s a better way. How do other people do this? What if you could peek at someone else’s method?

That’s why community templates exist. Build your own routines, but also try templates shared by others. Familiar and new, in one place.

Is this a dream?

Honestly, I’m not sure.

Connecting easy and hard, solo and team, familiar and new in one app — it’s easy to say, hard to build.

Every feature added makes things more complex. And the more complex it gets, the harder it is to keep the promise of “an app that works for simple tasks too.” Holding that balance is the hardest part of building Fecit.

But I don’t want to give up.

Writing tasks, finishing them, looking back. Alone or together. An app where that experience feels natural. That’s what I want Fecit to be.

There’s still a lot missing, but I believe it gets a little better every day. At least I use it every day, and today is a little better than yesterday.

This is a challenge. And the challenge continues.