Taskade is a hollow shell of what it used to be
Hello everybody, I used to work for Taskade and I think you deserve to know the truth. With all the shitposting and slop that's been posted here recently, I think the community deserves to know my side of the story.
Taskade has been going through a series of layoffs since last year. The way that it was done was extremely unprofessional, and caught us by surprise. A month of silence from the CEO, followed by being logged out of our work accounts at 12am, and a cold email saying 'thank you for everything'. No calls nothing, John only had the courage to do it over an email.
Taskade used to be an amazing place to work. The core product was great and it was actually going somewhere. I remember that we had a solid community and people were helping each other with the product.
But, the sudden pivot to Genesis (that was uncalled for), and how poorly it was executed basically imploded everything. Marketing only knew about Genesis one month before it was slated to launch. That's how much of a shitshow it was. While we tried to actually make the product work, the communication from John was extremely poor, and he would go days, sometimes weeks without replying to us. This was his idea, and the lack of communication left us all blind.
It's sad to see where the product is today and how far it's fallen off. Today, some staff are STILL owed severance payments (probably never going to get them), complaints about affiliate payment delays still appear on this sub, and you are all being fed content generated from Cursor.
Nothing is organic, it is all now just AI slop, and it's just pathetic. There is no trust left between the user and the product.
To the CEO: If you want to do something, do it properly. If not, don't do it at all.