I made a terminal task manager, got featured by the creator of Textual, and Reddit banned me 🤣

Have you ever spent weeks building an open-source project, finally launched it, and then had Reddit's spam filter silently delete your post because your account was too new? That was my experience launching taskdog . But the Reddit drama isn't the point. The real story is why I built a terminal task manager from scratch. The Problem: No task manager fit my workflow I was inspired by Taskwarrior — powerful, keyboard-driven, terminal-native. But I wanted a proper TUI and a local API I could build on top of. Nothing out there quite fit, so I built my own. The Design Decisions Why no subtasks? Most task managers let you nest tasks infinitely. I removed subtasks entirely. Dependencies + tags cover 99% of personal task organization, and keeping the structure flat makes the schedule optimizer dramatically simpler. I documented the full reasoning in DESIGN_PHILOSOPHY.md . Why Clean Architecture for a personal tool? The codebase is split into three packages: taskdog-core (business logic), taskd