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Finch's bird makes $1.5M a month — character beats features

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Finch is a to-do app with a bird that grows as you finish tasks. The to-do part hasn't improved in years; the bird makes $1.5M a month. Character and feeling beat features. Sit with that.

Transcript

Basically the finch idea is, there's this bird and what it does is, that bird will help you actually get the work done. So, if you have like a to-do task, you need to add every day, one thing after another. And the bird will kind of like, every time you complete your task, the bird will get happy. The bird will cheer you up. The bird will also grow with you. That was their idea. But what happened is suddenly, I was actually following them. Toodoo went to the park, people started liking the bird so much that they are cashing 1.5 million a month just from the bird. Toodoo, they have not improved a shit new toodoo. What was that? That means that he didn't improve anything. All they are just working on is that character, right? Toodoo, I mean, it's not like what it is, whatever it is.