Hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel it is
Francesco here and in today's feature, we will be talking with the co-founder of ticktick
Zim Chen, I hope I got your pronunciation, right?
We'll be chatting with Zim him about ticktick its future and some of the exciting projects that they currently have
working now
it is really exciting because I was really eager to meet with the team and learn more about what they're working on and
So this interview is really raw Zim him is actually in his garage for this video is garage
And I think it's like a really nice chat
about how he
Sees the future of ticktick and how he plans on continuing
To grow the company along with their team now it is an exciting interview. You guys will find a lot of value from it
I'll include as many useful screenshots as we go through this to illustrate
What zimin is talking about so without further ado guys and a big thank you to their team to putting this together
Especially to Elaine for organizing it and Zim him for taking the time out of his evening to jump into this
So thank you very much. And let's dive into today's video. Cheers everyone, but first off
Swimming. Do you mind introducing yourself?
And your role at ticktick?
Sure, hi i'm francisco. And so, um, thank you for so much for us tonight
And my name is Demi and the co-founder of tick tick. It's my honor to represent
our team to have a chat with you today and you
Know as you know a very popular app a lot of ticketed users, you know
I really interested to know who we are and what we do and we are why we're so dedicated to the field of time management
So I'm very happy to answer all those questions
And for those who don't connectivity yet
you were know how catalytic can help you to keep productive and
For our older fans. I think you can to know us in depth and also feel our hashing and
Expect a couple of new features coming soon
I would take a little talk a little bit about our team and the Machine know today. We have a lund
30 team members from Silicon Valley in the US and also at engineering team in China and
We are very mission driven team and we trying to help everyone, you know, stay organized
enjoy a peace of mind so that you can stay creative and
we actually have been working on this mission for almost 10 years and
You know and we all continue
work for at least another
66 years, you know, that's a lot
Yeah, so why 60 years it's
Actually affect the fun and the encouraging story and so because for this ten years, you know
I would talk a little bit about the history of the hook and the product so back to early
2010 and by their time I was finding him, you know were all big fans of Google Tasks
You know and however we found it like there's no good Android, you know clan for it
So we actually took a month to build our own app
Called juice husks, and I and we should you know
This one can can sync with good has perfectly in
the net that night will release that app it actually got
$50,000 just in for their single night Wow. Yeah, and then number, you know reach the two to
50,000 in the first month
Although, you know the Google and jet has is very successful
and a to reach the me Donna's in the first year, but
You know the Google Tasks ETF has very limited functionalities
right and
But as the feature request from our chat asked users, you know a growing rapidly
So we decided to build our own app
no tik tik and to Pettit to better meet our users needs and
even today, you know ticktick still have a lot of users follow us from all the way from
you know at the time of the tasks I
Didn't actually know that you guys
were the guys behind that which is really interesting because I remember it being very very popular and
obviously a lot of people using it above say Google Tasks say
that's really exciting and in obviously ticktick is grown into a very big application and
What are some of the things that you're currently working on at tactic right now?
Yeah, definitely. There's so many exciting things happening right now
You know, I think the first thing is an API integration
So right now in order to offer a better perform integration I use the experience
We are enhancing the API integration with other platforms
Such as slack
Zabka and
I asked TTT I think yeah and also
you know some Google Voice acetal and voice assistant like Google assistants and also
Amazon echo and
We want to in the world Zoe's is integration. We really put the user experiences
in the center
So we're creating a tool like to better facilitate our users life and work supa sizers API
Integration, we we are also working on some other exciting features, for example
multiple level photo to support, you know heavy users those who need
manager complex projects
And also we are working on the templates
Try to save users the time when Z come across a very similar pass every time you know
like Peggy
packing luggage before ever or
preparing meeting agenda for clients
So whenever uses a comes a similar task
You could fund and restore a template simply in one click, you know
we want to provide our users in past experience for each device they have
So we develop native
applications on each platform like iOS
Android web Mac, um, you know winners
and there was the tablets and
You know that takes a lot of F engineer efforts, right?
but we think it's absolutely worth it because the user experience is always our first thing and also
I think another thing I want to show you that thinking also always very quickly in R&D
you could probably you know, if you it from our free updates, right and
you know ticket is also not just that to-do app it also that in creates a lot of other useful features and
just to name a few like
Palmer timer
In a habit
calendar and also location reminders time and also that's supportive use and
We're usually actually the first product to introduce those creative features
for example now we integrate and greedy like calendar in our app in as early as
2015
So by the way also we have like many useful features
With try still will still actually keep our app very easy to use
No, and at the same time, it's also very flexible. And
customizable for our experienced users
definitely and
one of the things that I do obviously notice a lot with you guys is that you put a lot of time and attention into
Moving quite fast, which is really good
I think you answer that's definitely something that tick tick is known for is bringing out some really exciting veganism and
fairly fast
yeah, and and that leads me into one of my next questions is is what what future features and
Experiences will you have inside of the application?
Yeah
so, you know is always helping our user to scree organize and to stay great here to achieve this new of
Why future we we thinking is very useful is the mock down in
So, you know compared to other and to do apps in the market
you could probably feel that tick ticks detail page looks like
you know more like
note-taking app
That's why our unique features
No more, you know from for the time management tools. So note function is usually not weird developed
And tasks and notes are separated
however, you know after learning our users feedback we found it should not be there like that and
In our daily work in life
the need of
Organizing tasks and the taking notes are offering intertwined with each other
So to be more specific
when we have having a started working on a
certain task it's hard to do right and
In the process of working on it
It we may need to click materials and information
and just lie down our progress as notes and
In the end when the task is completed. It's no longer to do but it leaves purely as a notes
So we decided to you know
Elaborate those note-taking function and the better connected to our tasks
and
The second one I think is you know is we want to make our tickets matter?
We are in to offer, you know, encouraging a suggestion to let our user use little more efficiently
and for example, we want to be able to
Generate a meeting agenda for users based on their schedule in the calendar
So for example for interviews
You can use these functions to automatically generate available time slots and then send them to the HR person. I
think the the smart functions can be very useful for those people with very busy schedules and
And another thing like we want to mention is the
internationalization
You know, you know as a user spread across the world quickly we want to do more
Internalization squad work
For example, we were enable voice input with different language, you know to add a pass
Fantastic that well there
there are a lot of exciting features and I think they're yeah you're thinking about the
Calendar and the way that it interacts with the end user is actually quite exciting because you're looking at the whole process
Which is good, so that's very exciting
alright and and something that
Obviously are we as a key productive community?
There is plenty of ticktick users plenty of other users
But there's so many take the users that would like to hear a little bit more
I like a message to community to some extent and you have any
Messages or notes that you want to share with me. We actually have a lot
That's good. Yeah
You know, it's a first and a form unless you want to say like the community know we always pretty use risk
So for example, you know to provide a better experience. Yes
Yeah, and to our user alone as a group, we actually sent set up our do center separately
and so they'll dedicate data centers in us for our user outside China and
Also, you know we have a delicate
the center in Beijing for the user inside China and
we also value a lot of
customer support a lot
You know
Question our tickets are currently the to be responded that within 24 hours and
So without our use variable feedback
critics or suggestions
We wouldn't be able to make it play. So be serious, you know dear users
we actually hear you and we
Know you and then we will help you and we'll really love you
Nice, yeah
So, oh just like no, I think now I it's like time to go back to our 63 years journey
So so the story is like this
So recently we have a user in China who bought our premium version in a low of 66 years
You know, that's crazy. Yeah, that's great. It's a 66 years. It's a whole life commitment, right? Yeah
So which year yeah, it's the best was for our other work
So and we are so encouraged to work on ticktick for you know
At least another 66 years even just for the user. Yeah, and
we're looking forward to go together with all of you who share the same lab with styptic and
We'll end the horror season is coming and
The ticktick has planned
their special teams and the promotions to join your celebrations and
So we wish everyone has a delightful
holidays and our for rejoice with your families and the friends
That's fantastic, that's so nice. Well the thing is it's it's great to finally chat with you guys
For me, I appreciate it because I like to see and talk to all of the device that the providers of these great applications. So
Will Congrats on all of the work you've been doing is it's been super fun to watch?
Your progress for sure. So zoom. Thanks for taking the time out
Thank you so much and give us the opportunity to talk with you in our community