Windows Phone to-do app sold in the app store

Built a to-do app for Windows Phone in evenings and sold it through the app store.

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Hacker NewsComment by nigelsampson in “Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?”, March 23, 2011

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