Jen Anderson

I teased the product on social media, so that got me the first 100 or so. After that, I've offered various freebies (eBooks, etc) for email signup.

I designed Accomplist because every evening, I felt like I didn't get enough done during the day. But there's no such thing as "enough" when you're a perfectionist. Don't even get me started on all the things on my to-do list that were never going to get done in the first place. So I came up with a way to manage tasks in a way that assumes you're already trying to do too much. The result?...

Canva Pro, Buffer, HiPlay, Zoom, Apple Arcade, New York Times puzzle app

Ok, I'll be honest. I have an iPhone because it's cool. In general, I've found that Apple products have fewer problems than PCs, though when something does go wrong, PCs are easier to troubleshoot.

Productivity for imperfect humans.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but Canva might do what you want.

I'm looking forward to playing around with this. It should be quite the timesaver.

This was years back when I was a business systems analyst. I wrote the specs for an instant messaging system that was supposed to work inside a particular game as well as on the website that hosted several different games. The dev told me my requirements and specifications documents were so we'll done that he wished I wrote the specs for all of his projects.

I'm allegedly launching next week, but I'm having issues getting the app into the App Store and Google Play store, so I can't say that I'm actually ready. I may have to delay, but the launch will be this month.

Accomplist - productivity for imperfect humans.

Squarespace. That might change when I develop a browser-based version of my mobile app, or I'll keep the Squarespace site for marketing and blogging and have the app on a different platform.

This sounds really useful. After 3 years of Duolingo, I still can't tell a waiter about my food allergies in Spanish, but I can tell you that the cows were cleaning the kitchen.

Your app idea is presumably solving a problem that exists. Which means other people know about that problem and have their own solution. What makes your app unique is how you approach the problem and how you implement the solution. If you browse through the last few weeks of launches, you'll see multiple apps that are doing the same thing in different ways. Even if someone did steal your...

TV repairman.

Paris. But more likely to actually happen would be a backyard oasis/semi-enclosed porch.

No, but also yes. As we figure out how best to utilize and monetize the technology, we'll go from everyone jumping on the bandwagon to some companies using it well.

Well, my efforts to get my app into the Google Play store have taken a turn into Kafkaesque but I've decided to find it hilarious. So I guess my day is going well-ish.

I'm launching a task management app next Wednesday. My milestones are super basic - get my first 1k users, then the next 1k. Honestly? I'm have trouble seeing past next week. I'm waiting for the AppStore and Google Play to approve the app, so there's a part of me that doesn't believe it's going to happen.

I definitely agree. Even if adding value to the world doesn't lead to success, you've sent ripples of change out into the world.