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When a project gets out of hand...

Hey,

The first draft never looks like the final version. Sometimes it's just a few tweaks, sometimes it's an entirely different thing. Recently, the latter happened to me.

I wanted to build something fun and an opportunity to design something 'pretty'. I chose a simple todo-list with a clean design - check out the image above. I started to build.

The first draft went quickly. A pretty UI, and the todo-list worked fine. I thought to add one more feature, tweak something there, just polish that up a bit...

For the next three days, I only worked on this. Unfortunately ignored work, people, and anything not my computer screen. I spent more time on it than I should've - but the final result was something decent. Take a look.

The final version has linked notes, local and cloud storage, shareable note title suggestions (check out this link https://jottt.xyz/suggested-title), etc. The project really got out of hand.

Finally, I've decided to launch Jott on Product Hunt. I would love to get some feedback from this community - as you always have some interesting insights.

Cheers,

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Product Development
on June 13, 2020
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    Looks like your PH launch is going great so far! #2 and a +42 the last I looked. Well done, @hessel!

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      Thank you 🧡 and yes, so far it has been a pretty good day!

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        I just saw Product Hunt tweet out a link to Jott a few minutes ago - it sounds like the awesome ride is still continuing!

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