Comments on: Nowdothis, maybe the easiest web 2.0 service ever

By: Yo ho ho

Yo ho ho — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:40:19 +0000

You guys are crazy comparing this to Twitter!?! It’s a to do list! What it does it does great. It let’s you focus on one item. That is the whole point. You guys just don’t get it.

By: Did StumbleUpon and Digg just missed an emerging market?

Did StumbleUpon and Digg just missed an emerging market? — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:38:43 +0000

[...] it out for a while and came across some funny websites. I think the site is very simple (and I am known to like that) and effective, but I am unsure how websites are being presented to the users. I [...]

By: Jeroen Bakker

Jeroen Bakker — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:05:01 +0000

I’m not referring to paragin.nl in my comment earlier. That’s just a site :)

But nevertheless, I’m not dissing your work. It’s fun to build I’m sure, and that’s of course fine by me. I’m just questioning some words in this blog post.

By: Lodwick

Lodwick — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:57:36 +0000

@Jeroen, paragin.nl is not simple.

By: Bram Kok

Bram Kok — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:00:44 +0000

Very cool.

I love stuff that Lodwick makes or is involved in: vimeo, tumblr and muxtape.

And I love minimalism.

By: Jeroen Bakker

Jeroen Bakker — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:00:31 +0000

I’m not a developer, I’m a entrepreneur/marketeer/sales person. So what I’m looking for is value, added value. So I’m not interested in the fact that it works like this, I’m surprised to read that you find something with no value ‘an excellent example’. In that case a brick is an even better example to many complicated websites out there.

This is, like Patrick commented before, an idea. But as a product or as an example it’s shitty because it solves nothing, it doesn’t add any value to anything. Let’s strive to build stuff with value!

(By the way, we’re big fans of keeping things simple, to the point and nowhere near one-size-fits-all. That’s one of our core philosophies when designing and developing new software products.)

By: Joop Dorresteijn

Joop Dorresteijn — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:15:30 +0000

@Jeroen Bakker, damn right I am serious. I know that from a developer perspective, the service might seem simple and can be created in less then an hour; but what I love is that it's just that... simple. But I would agree with you, you won't see me consulting the app to big media companies just for that. But for the record: The Paradox of Choice is a book that discusses the problem with offering to much to customers, and in line with that thought I really like the workout. Jakob might as well made an application like remember the milk but made somethingmore simple and intuitive, a good lesson for many web-services that think from the login, captcha, validator, community & bloated services perspective.

By: Patrick de Laive

Patrick de Laive — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:08:48 +0000

@boris come on, lets face it. This is a shitty service, build in 10 minutes and let’s not waste our time on it. (although I like the discussion :) ).

@Joop love your posts, but this one misses its point. Yes, Less is More, but this is a shitty example. Next one please

By: Jeroen Bakker

Jeroen Bakker — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:55:43 +0000

> that it’s an excellent example to many complicated websites out there

I hope you don’t mean this seriously.

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:36:07 +0000

@patrick: I know it is not social. I’m not saying it is completely the same as Twitter but I like the ‘less is more’ look & feel at Nowdothis.com just as I like it at Twitter.com.

Oh, and I’m SURE I won’t be using it in 4 days. I was never planning on using it in the first place because I don’t use todo lists at all. But it made me smile when I checked it out and I can imagine other people using it.