I rolled out my own to-do app yesterday, because I needed something fast as a companion to Obsidian, while it can do cloud syncing for me. It works exactly the way I want and looks exactly the way I want. If there's something I want changed about it, I add it as a todo item in the very same app. This works today. I don't think the companies have moat in experience fine tuning.

I feel the same about this. There are many task trackers out there and most are overkill for my own projects. I don't feel like onboarding through Linear, or setting up through Trello and think about how to have the agents connect, etc, so I just found myself motivated to look for my own, local solution track and manage my projects.

I think it's better when you are at the origin, and the software branches off of your taste. For so long, we had to adapt and accept the ways of established software because it would take so long to make something of your own. Now it's both cheap and fast to iterate.