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), taskdog