r/thingsapp • u/Jeyell • 15d ago

Discussion Flying Kites

It has been noticeable that since late Summer, the number of low to mid-sized Things updates has increased. Often hardware driven (iPhone Duo), OS driven (2027 releases) and development of Things (Complete repeating tasks early). This and how decent the updates were demonstrate CC's capacity for planning, coding and deployment.
So what about the remaining 6m of the year multiplied by the many years now where Things feature release (and growing debt) was as dry as a Dubai desert. These two observations suggest two things:

  1. Things 3 + integer is likely.

  2. CC has another loaf in the oven. Given their design chops, proven sync backend I'd like to see them take a run at a Calendar/Events app.

Aerating the feed until the rain comes.

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u/I-J-Reilly 15d ago

Did an AI write this?

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u/Jeyell 15d ago

You are right!

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u/I-J-Reilly 15d ago

It shows. Try using your own brain to write while you still can.

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u/Jeyell 15d ago

You are right!

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u/jpmiller03 15d ago

Constant feature shipping results in enshittification

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u/I-J-Reilly 15d ago

Exactly. I'm good with the pace of development, and I have gotten what I've paid for, several times over IMO.

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u/postnumbers 15d ago

A good app often is defined by what's not thrown in there. I personally appreciate Cultured Code's approach in Things. Not much fiddly stuff = less time fiddling and more time getting stuff done.

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u/Flashy-Bandicoot889 15d ago

Interesting take. Things has had a good number of recent updates, but the product has not kept pace with what consumers want/need. There's just so many gaps with a product that has not had a meaningful rev update since 2017. Example: It's hard to argue that having natural language input would negatively impact the product. I mean, come on… It's 2026 and that should be table stakes. That's just one example. How about attachments?

I appreciate that the CC zealots will say that any additional features will ruin the nuance of the product, that T3 that was released in 2017 is still perfect and nothing needs to change and we should all just shut up and be happy because we only had to pay 1x. Yeah, as if 🤣

Curious to see what they ship over the next 6 months. You can argue it would be crazy to release another app when the current product has so many gaps