Christian Reber, the founder of popular to-do list app Wunderlist, has offered to buy the app back from Microsoft. Reber made the announcement on Twitter, saying that he’d be more than okay to let Microsoft keep the Wunderlist team to work on its own Microsoft To-do app, and just sell the app back to Reber, in an attempt to prevent the app from being shut down.
Still sad @Microsoft wants to shut down @Wunderlist, even though people still love and use it. I’m serious @satyanadella @marcusash, please let me buy it back. Keep the team and focus on @MicrosoftToDo, and no one will be angry for not shutting down @Wunderlist. pic.twitter.com/27mIABncLF
The Redmond giant originally purchased Wunderlist back in 2015 for an amount somewhere between $100 million to $200 million, and subsequently launched its own To do app. Since then, Microsoft has been working on its own To-Do app, bringing over features from Wunderlist. Interestingly, Wunderlist works on AWS, and Microsoft, instead of trying to port it over to its own Azure cloud services, completely rewrote the entire app.
