Nathan Gilson

Nathan Gilson

Dev of Google TasksBoard
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  • Share GPT
    Share GPT
    Share your GPTs with anyone - No OpenAI subscription needed
    Jan 2024
  • TasksBoard
    TasksBoard
    A desktop app for Google Tasks.
    May 2023
  • Mail Merge for Gmail
    Mail Merge for Gmail
    Send personalized mass emails directly from Google Sheets
    Dec 2022
  • Lo
    Lo
    Ask and answer "Where you at?" with one tap.
    Jun 2022
  • SheetTools for Google Sheets
    SheetTools for Google Sheets
    A set of 15+ solutions for daily tasks in Google Sheets
    Mar 2022
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    Joined Product HuntFebruary 10th, 2019

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Nathan Gilson

5yr ago

Google closed its Google Tasks web client, so I created a new one, which looks like Trello...

I love Google and I love their ecosystem, but it has huge side effects: I'm literally stuck in it. After Google closed its Google Tasks web application to integrate it with Gmail, I found that I couldn't transfer all my tasks to another ToDo application. So I created my own web client that displays lists and tasks like Trello does, and it wasn't as simple as expected. Unlike Microsoft and Apple, Google publishes well-documented APIs for almost all its products, which is why I generally like them. I could not have created such a web client for the main competing task managers. However, working with their API was a terrible experience. They provide an API that is not the one they use for their own applications, and I spent weeks coding a wrapper that allows users to create/edit new tasks and drag them into lists without risk of losing or duplicating them during the process, even during Internet falls. Now, I'm waiting for google to check the application, but you can test it if you want, you'll just get a warning message telling you that TasksBoard is not certified yet!

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