The motivation of Tick Task was to create a cross-platform macOS and iOS app that let me set a timer on one device and have it go off on all devices. I wanted to keep it simple and stupid to start. I spent a decent amount of time getting the "feel" of the timer just right. I wanted to dial to "click" into place, and sync across iOS and macOS. I spend a decent amount of time testing notifications to make sure that everything was working flawlessly. I had some hidden macOS functionality like holding option to "snap" into 5-minute increments, or shortcuts to load the previous setting. On iOS I added haptic feedback, as well as a mechanism for more granular control the further away the user's finger was from the center. I also spent a good deal of time getting screenshots for the iOS and macOS app stores in the 11 different languages that I wanted to distribute in. I even wrote another program to help do just that. Why did I make it? Apple didn't have a good solution for cross-platform timers. Why did I stop? Apple rejected the app because they said it didn't meet the "minimum functionality requirement". So lame. Now, I just use Focus - which has a lot of features, sure, but the one I use the most? The cross-platform timer. Anyway, this one is sent to the graveyard at the hand of Apple.