Five years helping you get things done!

Exactly 5 years ago today as a solo programmer / entrepreneur / startup guy – I decided to show a new project to the world – a project that already was helping me get things done – so I figured that maybe I’ll find some “more Michaels like me” that would want to work the same way. Here’s the original blog post from our archives

We got a lot done in the first five years, we’ll get a lot more in the next 5 and more to come!

We’ve got great plans for this year – we’re building a bigger development team and we’ve got great apps in the pipeline. We’ll soon be shipping the new desktop app, new mobile HTML5 app and a much improved Android app. Things are looking good for Nozbe. Plus we’ve got a surprise feature-set for you in the coming months.

Suffice to say, “the journey is the reward” and these last 5 years have been great for me and for our entire Nozbe team. Now we’re looking forward to the next 5 years and beyond – serving you and helping you get more done!

Thanks for being great customers, users, supporters and advocates – serving you is a pleasure and I can’t imagine doing anything else.

Yours truly,

- Michael Sliwinski, CEO and Founder of Nozbe

Nozbe integrates with Box!

We’ve been working on this one for quite a while now and we already announced this to some of the users but today we’re making this public – Nozbe is now officially synced with Box (formerly Box.net).

If you’re a Box user, just go to Nozbe’s page there

Here’s my video of showing how Box and Nozbe integration works (very similar to our Dropbox integration):

Watch it on Youtube

Please let me know if you like Box and use it and which new integrations you’d like to see!

Nozbe 2.0 for Android is now available - get things done on the move!

I’m proud to announce that after months of testing we’ve shipped the 2.0 version of our Android application.

We have rewritten the application from scratch, it’s modern, has improved user interface and most of all, you can browse and add your actions easier with one tap on the screen – we optimized everything to make sure you can get things done on the move.

Download the application from the Android market

Here’s the video of the application in action as shown by yours truly:

We’d like to thank our beta-testers for trying out our app and all of our Nozbe community for great feedback.

Nozbe desktop for Mac and PC beta7 is available for download

Update: We’ve just improved the “weird fonts” problem in the Windows build. Please download the Windows version again and let us know. Thanks! – Michael

We’ve released a prerelease beta7 to our trusted Nozbe beta-testers, received great feedback, fixed several bugs and now we’re releasing the improved beta7 for everyone to enjoy:

Win: Download Nozbe beta7 for Windows

Mac: Download Nozbe beta7 for Mac

P.S. Even if you downloaded the beta7 prerelease last week, make sure to download the improved version today. Watch out for Nozbe Android 2.0 tomorrow!

Happy New Year 2012 (and pre-release Nozbe beta7 and Android 2.0)

2011 is coming to an end and I’d like to personally thank you for your great support. This has been our best year so far and as we’re approaching releasing Nozbe Windows and Mac native apps (read below) and new Android 2.0 app, together with our iPhone and iPad app lineup Nozbe will be the go-to productivity suite for busy people like yourself in 2012.

Thanks so much for your support and have a productive New Year!

Watch the video on YouTube

Our new beta7 app and Android 2.0 pre-release

We’ve been busy building these apps and haven’t tested them fully so I decided to announce them on our Test Nozbe blog – if you want to help us and are a brave beta-tester, please go there and get your apps and let us know what you think!

Here’s how our new apps are going to look like:

Click here to go to Test Nozbe blog and get your apps

It’s going to be an amazing year for Nozbe and for you – we’ll get the New Year’s Resolutions done, together!

Happy New Year,

- Michael Sliwinski – your Nozbe founder on behalf of your Nozbe Team.

Nozbe Affiliate Program re-launched with 20% lifetime recurring commissions. Recommend Nozbe today!

Update 14 Dec: We’ve added an additional 20% payout bonus to all the affiliates who have reached $100 payout limit. We’ll be adding these starting from January, so stay tuned! Thanks so much for your feedback on this – Michael

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Word-of-mouth is still our main source of new users to Nozbe. Folks like you, who get a lot done and get organized with Nozbe start recommending to others and the new folks come…. and start using Nozbe… and recommend to others… and so it goes.

Our Affiliate program hasn’t been improved for years now and was quite complicated… and even so, last month we paid more than $3000 dollars to our affiliates and every month we’re paying more. That’s why we decided to make it even easier for you to spread the word about Nozbe and earn higher commissions:

Nozbe’s Affiliate Program relaunched!

When you log in to Nozbe you’ll see the link to the Affiliate program already right on the top of the screen:

What’s new in our affiliate program?

• New, simple rules – 10% or 20% commissions for life. If you’re a paying customer, your referrals earn you 20% of all the revenue they bring. If you’re a free user, you still get a handsome 10%. We believe paying users are more committed to Nozbe and their recommendations are more authentic.

• New, pretty URL to promote Nozbe – just go to “Settings” and set up your Nozbe nickname and once you’ve done that, you can use it in your affiliate URL. Easy.

• Commissions stay the same for monthly and yearly payments. If your commission tier is 20%, when someone signs up for a monthly plan, you get 20% off their price every month. If they go for yearly plan, you get 20% off their price each year they pay. And that’s quite a lot of money for referring just one user to Nozbe

• Social media built in – you can just click on the social media buttons we’ve included on your affiliate page to spread the word about Nozbe with your social graph. Your special Nozbe affiliate link is already embedded in. This means, you can go there today, and start spreading the word about Nozbe right now. It’ll take you a couple of seconds and can bring many bucks down the road.

• All your team-members earn 20% – if you’re on a team account (Family, Team, Business…) but you’re just a member, you haven’t actually paid for Nozbe, you’re still considered a paying customer and when you refer to Nozbe YOU earn 20%, not your account owner or your boss, your recommendations bring you 20% commissions.

Thank you for spreading the word about Nozbe, that’s the least we could do!

Nozbe is one of the world’s most popular time and project management application inspired by GTD and it’s all thanks to you. With the new affiliate program we’re hoping to reward you at least in some way for spreading the word about us and letting others know about us.

More details on the Nozbe Affiliate program page.

Thanks so much for being a fantastic Nozbe user community!

My Team doesn't email me anymore. We communicate through Nozbe. That's how we roll...

I’ve been meaning to write this blog post months ago. Hopefully this explains a little more how we work in Nozbe, what’s next on our agenda and why we do the things we do.

We’re growing!

Yes, our Nozbe Team used to be small. I founded Nozbe in 2007 as a “one man shop”. I was joined by Delfina and Tomasz in 2008 and we were three. Now we’re nine. Apart from that we work with Macoscope guys on the iPhone/iPad apps. So we’re acutally more than 9.

Emailing, CCing… is not effective

As we grew I wanted to stay on top of things. So everyone would email me things. Most of them as CC. And that was fine when we were 3. But it started being unbearable at 9. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t scale beyond that point.

Than there was the other thing – of explaining new hires how Nozbe works and what Nozbe does. Why do we have to do it every time?

My decision: You must not email me anymore

I decided to say bye to email within my team. I instructed we needed to really “eat our dogfood” and communicate through Nozbe. Want something from me? Delegate an action to me and I’ll have it. Want to comment on my task. Do it. In Nozbe. Everyone who shares this project will see it, no need to CC people.

Added bonus: New folks really quickly learn all about Nozbe features, how it works and are getting interested in GTD (Getting Things Done) and are more productive and effective. Isn’t that cool?

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