I used to be the number one hater of the stardance review process(you get pretty tired of it after having to review the same slack bot 15 times but with different names) but after reading the feedback other people have left on my shipped projects I’ve changed my mind.

Initially I decided to ship this thing quickly so I could get the sticker, but after seeing that a lot of people liked this project(and the Happiness meter too, check it out on my page) I’ve decided to keep improving it with the suggestions reviewers left.

I’ll start with fixing the number one complaint, the devlogs. I still stand by my belief of “ship first, talk later” but I recognize that people enjoy reading this devlogs and they also force me to think twice about what I implemented and the decisions I made.

Enough talk, what did I do in this 5h of coding time? Well, I basically rewrote the whole thing. Now there’s a new starting flow. Much more personalized, it even asks for your name! I tried to keep the todo selection logic mostly intact because it was a pain to write. Sadly I wanted to implement overflow handling and ended up having to rethink and rewrite a lot of code.

Other features I implemented:

• The app now scales dynamically, filling the whole terminal, like a real TUI. Instead of the fixed values on the previous version. This was a pain to change by itself and took a lot of time to get the correct relative values but I’m quite happy of how it came out.
• Multiple todolists! A lot of reviewers asked for this and I’m happy to deliver.

Things I want to add that reviewers asked for:

• Due time for the TODOs
• Maybe a reminder system? I’ll have to look into it, people have asked for this but I’m unsure about leaving a gorutine or a cron job running in the background of a reviewers computer.
• A more celebratory way of completing a TODO than just deleting it.

I won’t change the AI declaration because it still applies to the first ship(even though the second is basically a rewrite) but in this one I tried to use even less and go back to good ol stack overflow.

One reviewer asked me to make a mobile app for this, I tried to port it to ios using gomobile but it was a mess and simply not worth the effort so I sent the original go code to an agent and asked it to port it to swift. For a vibedcoded prototype it works pretty well so I’ll explore that option too.

I still have to work on the persistent storage, it’s going to have to be more complex.

Lastly I would like to thank again to all the reviewers that took the time to write thoughtful reviews, it means a lot to me. Some people even went out of the way to test the builds for windows and linux that I couldn’t test, thanks a lot :)