Hello, I’m Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe - to-do app for business owners and their teams. I write essays, books, work on projects and I podcast for you using #iPadOnly in #NoOffice as I believe that work is not a place you go to, it’s a thing you do.
You open a new productivity app and you start getting organized with a hierarchy. Projects. Sub-projects. Tasks. Sub-tasks. This feels serious. This feels professional. You feel in control. Yet when you open my to-do app, Nozbe, you won’t find sub-projects or sub-tasks. For the last 19 years I’ve been refusing to give my customers these features because I’ve felt this added complexity and hierarchy go against the efficiency of getting things done. Turns out my hunch was correct and there’s some actual research behind this.
Turns out that over 19 years of Nozbe we’ve served customers from 165 countries! Hundred Sixty Five! And these are not just free users, but we’re talking about paying customers. This small stat made my day today.
How about adding such letter on main Nozbe home page? Just to show the prospective buyer that the same tool we’re selling is the same tool we’re using and it’s reflecting our values and the way we want to work? What do you think? Would that convince you?
Let’s give away half a year!? Well… we’ve decided to do an experiment at Nozbe and offer our Premium users and their team members a special promo for their SECOND workspace - if they upgrade it for 6 months, we’ll add another 6 months to it!
📝 Why writing things down matters? 💬 Why we spend time commenting on tasks? ✅ Because just a short paragraph TODAY can save you and your team MINUTES or HOURS of pointless conversations tomorrow! Yes, seriously!
PROMISE? ✅🙏 Why Nozbe? Why not other apps? What’s the promise of the app I’m offering? When Nathan Barry asked me this question on the interview I didn’t really know what to answer at first… but then we got it soooo right…
What it’s like seeing your business through the eyes 👀 of a successful entrepreneur you respect and have been following for years? The opportunity of being mentored by Nathan Barry was the highlight of the end of last year for me! It was a very candid and open conversation. It was also humbling to admit some of my mistakes and limiting beliefs. Enjoy!
First day back from VACATION? 🏖️ I have only one job - to clear my “Incoming” view in Nozbe - I had almost 100 tasks there… and on Monday afternoon I have NOTHING. ZERO. ZIP. NADA.
In a few days we are going to celebrate 19 years of Nozbe and with this we’re going to be also adjusting our prices (last time was 2,5 years ago). It’s basically an inflation adjustment but as I was preparing the new price list I also took an opportunity to see how we can make the pricing even simpler. Plus, I also hired AI to help me out… which was… interesting. Here’s how I went about it all if you’re curious:
I’ve been running Nozbe for the last 18 years and the value of simplicity has always been my northern star. That’s why whenever a Nozbe user finds one of these simplifying features delightful it always makes my day. Watch one of our users and experts!, Mike St Pierre discovering how easy it is to convert a section of a project into its own project in Nozbe with one easy click: