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Best todo app for indie hackers

You're shipping side projects constantly, but your task management is scattered across Notion, Apple Reminders, and sticky notes—and you're losing momentum because your tools don't match your workflow. The indie hacker market has grown 40% year-over-year, but their tooling hasn't kept pace with how they actually work: in sprints, with shipping deadlines, and zero tolerance for friction.

Opportunity Score

72/ 100

High Opportunity

Estimated Competitors

18apps

Competitive

Key insight: The market isn't waiting for another beautifully designed todo app—it's waiting for a tool that understands indie hackers ship in public, measure velocity, and kill projects often, so your app needs to celebrate shipping wins and pivot decisions, not just task completion.

Market Overview

There are roughly 200+ todo apps on the market, but only 15-20 that explicitly market to indie hackers and makers. The problem isn't quantity—it's that most apps were designed for corporate teams or personal productivity gurus, not people juggling multiple revenue streams, open-source projects, and experiments simultaneously. Common failures include over-engineering features (templates, custom fields, integrations nobody uses), poor mobile UX for quick capture, and zero notion of "shipping velocity" as a core metric. The actual gap is here: indie hackers need a tool that treats shipping and momentum as first-class citizens, integrates with their existing stack (GitHub, Discord, Stripe dashboards) without bloat, and prioritizes speed-of-capture over customization. A new entrant should obsess over three things: (1) making it faster to add tasks than email, (2) building deep integrations with tools makers actually use daily (not Slack bots), and (3) showing shipping momentum and streaks, not just checkboxes.