My Lack of Attention
I have some skin in this game. :)<p>OP&#x27;s app is Gloomhaven Secretary.
The other app is X-Haven Assistant.
I announced a similar app, Gloomhaven Full Stack, before either of those apps were started and before GH Helper was discontinued.<p>All of our apps can exist only because of the generosity of Gloomhaven&#x27;s creator, Isaac Childres. He made all the game assets available for use in apps as long as we don&#x27;t make money. And we are all building on the success of GH Helper. We are standing on the shoulders of giants.<p>Everything OP says about XH Assistant, I could be saying about GH Secretary. I had all the features before both of them. I have original features that they both &quot;copy&quot;. (I did it first, but ideas are cheap, and they may have come up with it independently.) But they both look a lot nicer than mine. I feel jealousy too, but I understand why users would like the other apps more than mine.<p>After my initial jealousy, I was actually quite glad they existed because I could now tell users if they don&#x27;t like my app, no worries try one of these others. I include links to the other apps when I post updates to my app. I often tell users about GHS along side my own app if they both address a user&#x27;s issue.<p>To address my own jealousy, I try to feel more gratitude. I think of it as healthy competition and happy to promote competitors if they are more what the user wants. I should probably do more to acknowledge the apps that inspired me.<p>For now, my app still has features the others don&#x27;t. I created my app to do more than GH Helper, intentionally not be a clone and experiment with ways of doing things differently from GH Helper, and to combine the functionality of 4 different apps that I was previously using. I am resolved to the fact that the other apps might eventually implement all those features, but I will continue with my app as long as I have new ideas I want to add.