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. More…
Posts about running my Nozbe online startup business and developing/designing Nozbe apps. Successes, failures, mistakes and lessons learned… it’s all in there.
As I mentioned last month I finally met my friend Augusto Pinaud in person. What I didn’t say is that he gave me a special gift - knowing that I love ❤️ these two things: LEGO + Nozbe he gifted me with this beautiful mosaic, which he designed especially for me using Brick.me service:
Yesterday I wrote about Nozbe’s 16 anniversary and today I decided to record this on video, to really show you why I’m excited about our Nozbe mission and place in this world - and I hope you’ll share that excitement with me, too:
Today marks the “sweet sixteen” birthday 🎂 of Nozbe - a to-do app that I launched on my own way back on February 1, 2007 from my small rented apartment in Warsaw, Poland.
As today is December 15, it would actually be 19th birthday of my entrepreneurship. Back in 2003 on this day I formally started my company called initially apivision.com as a web and Internet Marketing consultancy. Later as I launched Nozbe in 2007, I changed the company name to reflect that. However, there is no celebration today. My email, which I sent to all of Nozbe users earlier this week explains that my company has transitioned from sole proprietorship to a limited liability company. I also touched on our #NoOffice culture, why I believe it was this change was badly-needed as the company grew and why I procrastinated on it. I hope you’ll find it interesting:
In a few days the Polish startup community will be awarding new startups Aulery - an annual award for innovation and global ambition. The funny thing is that the history of this award aligns with my history of starting and running Nozbe - because I was one of the first winners! Here’s how it went down:
In this episode of Nozbe product vlog we talk about small but very important improvements in how our product works. The comments - the basis of task-based communication - get lots of love - better handling of attachments and finally my beloved markdown formatting. Check it out!
This time on the Nozbe product vlog we discussed the most-requested feature by far - project templates - and how we implemented it. We also share our best Weekly review advice there so make sure to check it out as today is Friday and you should definitely do a review like this! More info ℹ️
Normally on this blog I’m not writing much about details of my app, Nozbe. I write about lessons learned in business, life and the like, but hardly about the particular features of Nozbe app… however when a feature helps me become a better CEO, I think it deserves a highlight. Let me explain why I hate asking people for status updates and why the “Activity” view in Nozbe helps me stay on top of things without doing any kind of asking.
On Nozbe blog I published a short blog post explaining how we’ve made more improvements to the Affiliate/Referral program. Now when you recommend Nozbe to others, you’re spreading #NozbeLove ❤️ with $15 in free credit! More info ℹ️
As we celebrated 15 years of Nozbe we made a big announcement that our latest product that we launched less than 2 years ago, became the new Nozbe. In the same time we explained that our Nozbe Personal users are taken care of, and we’ve got options for them. Apart from the birthday announcement, we also improved the “Compare” page that explains the differences between both apps in detail and I recorded a special video for this: More info ℹ️ at nozbe.com/compare