u/Legitimate-Task765

I’d like to hear from recruiters and hiring managers.

For senior roles such as Head of Marketing, Marketing Director, or CMO, how often is someone actually hired through a normal job application?

I’ve always assumed these positions are usually filled through referrals, executive search firms, or existing professional relationships. Yet companies still advertise them publicly and accept applications.

Are they genuinely open to outside candidates, or do companies often already have preferred candidates by that stage?

I’ve been applying for senior roles for around 6 months and have received almost no replies, despite having relevant leadership experience. I understand the market is difficult, but the complete lack of response has made me question whether applying through job portals is even a realistic route at this level.

From an HR or hiring manager’s perspective, can strong external applicants really reach the interview stage this way? If so, what usually separates the applications that get reviewed from those that disappear into the system?

TL;DR: I bought Taskade Tier 3 LTD for task management, and years later I still have everything I originally paid for, plus AI credits (which I need to buy afterward) to use Genesis, automations, and MCP access. Taskade evolved because task management is saturated and the company needs a path to sustainable growth. They could have abandoned the LTD product and launched Genesis under a new brand, as many LTD projects have done, but they kept supporting us. The communication could be better, but as a longtime LTD user, I have received far more than I paid for.

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I bought Taskade Tier 3 through AppSumo several years ago. My reason was that I wanted a flexible tool for managing tasks, projects, and different workspaces. I still have those things today. The task manager did not disappear. My projects did not disappear. The workspaces and collaboration features I paid for still work.

Yet every time Taskade launches something new, I see the same complaint: “Taskade is no longer a task management platform”

I do not think that criticism is fair.

Taskade has clearly moved in a (completely) new direction. Genesis is now the centre of the product. They want people to build apps, agents, automations, and workflows on top of the Taskade platform. That naturally changes what receives the most attention in the interface. Task management now sits further behind the Genesis experience, but it is still there. If you bought Taskade to manage tasks, you can continue managing tasks.

The task-management market is brutally saturated. Taskade would struggle to grow by remaining another task manager competing with Notion, ClickUp, Asana, Monday, Trello, and dozens of similar products. Genesis gives the company a much larger opportunity in AI apps, agents, and automation. Recognising that shift and moving early is exactly what a startup should do. Holding Taskade to its 2022 identity forever would probably leave it stagnant, slowly losing relevance while the rest of the market moves forward.

Taskade also had an easier, more cynical option. It could have launched Genesis under a new brand, placed the old task manager into maintenance mode, and gradually abandoned its LTD users. Plenty of companies have used that playbook after an LTD campaign. BUT Taskade kept everything inside the same platform, preserved the original task management product, continued hosting old workspaces, and carried the cost of supporting LTD accounts years after collecting the one time payment with free credit. People may dislike how the product is now positioned, but they should at least acknowledge that Taskade chose to keep supporting them when walking away would have been much cheaper (and easier).

In my case, Taskade went far beyond the original product I purchased. For well over a year, my LTD account received a generous amount of free AI credits. I used those credits to experiment with agents, workflows, project systems, and other AI features that were never part of my original purchasing decision. I did not buy Taskade because of AI agents or Genesis. Taskade AI barely existed when the AppSumo campaign began.

Today, I am still using Taskade for the original purpose which is managing my work. I also use it as infrastructure behind several of my web projects. Through MCP, I can connect Taskade with external AI tools and work with my Taskade data without depending entirely on Taskade’s own AI credits. My LTD has become far more useful than the task manager I originally paid for.

That sounds like a good outcome for an early buyer.

There are legitimate criticisms. Taskade’s communication with its community has become weaker. The product direction and pricing changes have often been explained poorly. Moving Genesis to the front of the interface has confused older users. If someone had a specific feature explicitly included in their LTD and Taskade removed it, that person deserves a clear answer and a proper resolution.

But “I dislike the new direction” and “Taskade broke the lifetime deal” are 2 different claims.

A lifetime deal gives access to the product and entitlements described in the deal. It does not give buyers permanent control over the company’s roadmap, homepage, positioning, interface hierarchy, or business model. Taskade is allowed to evolve. It is allowed to develop a larger product around the original task-management system. It is allowed to charge for features with substantial ongoing costs.

Some of the recent comments go far beyond criticism. People appear to be waiting for Taskade to fail or close down so they can say they were right. I struggle to understand what that achieves. If Taskade closes, LTD users lose the product completely. If Taskade finds a sustainable business model, those same users can continue using the platform they bought years ago.

Maybe Taskade’s biggest regret is running the AppSumo campaign in the first place.

The campaign gave Taskade users, reviews, feedback, and exposure. It also created a cohort that paid once and now treats every new paid feature as something that should automatically belong to them forever. No amount of value seems enough because the definition of “lifetime” keeps expanding with the product.

And the fact that I am still actively using Taskade today already says something. It has lasted far longer than many AppSumo products that made grand lifetime promises, stopped shipping updates, abandoned support, or simply disappeared. Taskade is still here, still developing, and still giving me access to the core product I bought years ago. That alone puts it ahead of a large part of the LTD market.

As a Tier 3 buyer, do I still have what I originally bought?

My answer is yes. I have the task and project management system I paid for, plus years of updates and several capabilities that did not exist at the time. Taskade’s execution and communication could be better, but I cannot honestly say I have been treated unfairly.

I got considerably much more than I paid for.

I want to share my AgencyPro experience because I think it says a lot about the risks of using LTD software for real business operations.

I run a marketing agency, and my team used AgencyPro as our central workspace for client project management. We tracked ongoing tasks, assigned work, monitored progress, and coordinated daily operations across the team. It wasn't just another tool in our stack. It was part of our operational workflow. AgencyPro had been in my main workflow for a few months when the entire platform went down for four straight days. This was not a glitch and it was not just my account. The whole service was down, except their homepage. During that time, I got no response from support, even though this was a business critical tool that my team used to track client work and internal tasks.

So I contacted Appsumo and after AS reached out, the platform was back on. By the time the platform came back, I had already migrated to another service just to keep my business running. That migration took time, manpower, and operational effort. It also affected client communication and trust. Those losses are real, and nobody is going to reimburse them.

What made this worse is the support pattern. During the LTD campaign, support was active. After that, response times slowed down badly. In my case, it was often 2 to 3 weeks before getting a reply. When the platform actually broke, support was silent.

I also ask for the refund, even though it's out of the refund window. I didn't need the fund, I asked for the fund just because I think I should. AppSumo rejected my refund request because the platform is back online now and the purchase is outside the refund window.

So yes, AppSumo can say the service is live again now. That does not change the fact that the damage was already done. A tool like this is either reliable when you need it or it is not.

At this point I have no reason to trust AgencyPro again. Once a business tool burns you like that, you do not just move back and pretend nothing happened.

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