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Ask HN: Review my startup, tasskr.com

11 pointsby dan335about 14 years ago
Hi everyone! I made a list maker app and would like your feedback. A few months ago I went looking online for a todo list to help me get things done. I eventually decided to write my own and learn rails (and put things off even more). Tasskr is a simple list maker with due dates, time estimates, recurring tasks, reminders and graphs. I'm hoping it could be profitable.<p>http://tasskr.com

7 comments

euroclydonabout 14 years ago
If you're really serious about making money on it, then you should do the following:<p>1) Add a couple more features that are geared around integration with people's workflow, like phone reminders, and maybe some ability to, oh, I don't know, send a grocery list to a husband, or a parts list to a delivery guy.<p>2) Research, research, research, where people are spending money on the internet for something like this. You'll find the usual suspects, like Basecamp, and you'll want to avoid being like that. Instead, you'll want to find underserved markets niches, dozens of them.<p>3) Once you've identified the markets, build a list of them, and outline the contents of a landing page for each niche. Do this on the computer, so that you can programmatically create all these landing pages and capture some of the long tail traffic.<p>4) This should really be #1, but get someone to start paying, anyone. This will force you to scratch someone's itch who has money. Make whatever changes they need so that the service is valuable to them. You really need to find one person out there, who's saying "I wish I had an online task list that met my needs! If I only did, I could make $X more this week/month/year."
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jckayabout 14 years ago
Aren't there a ton of apps that do this, or something very similar. I did a Google search and found a pretty solid top 25 list <a href="http://www.solutionwatch.com/450/25-to-do-lists-to-stay-productive/" rel="nofollow">http://www.solutionwatch.com/450/25-to-do-lists-to-stay-prod...</a><p>I am just curious how this one stands out?
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gaddersabout 14 years ago
I'm more of a pencil and paper guy, but at first glance it looks very nice.<p>A couple of quick thoughts:<p>1) You might want to make it clearer which features are in the basic model and which are in the "Pro" version on the landing page<p>2) I'd maybe change the wording around the "More Features" section. Maybe I'm being hyper-critical, but it sounds more like "here's my project, what do you think?" rather than "Here is my professional piece of software that is being actively developed and having new features added daily".<p>Maybe something like:<p>"Taskrr is under active development, with new features being added on a daily/weekly basis. Please feel free to suggest new features via [feedback form link?]. You can see our current roadmap here [link to dogfooded dev roadmap using Taskrr!]"<p>Hope that helps.<p>Mark
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maxbrownabout 14 years ago
I really like: the up-front-and-center screenshot of what the interface looks like, before I even sign up.<p>Personally, not a fan: forcing me to Sign Up before I get to see any more information. Why only one page? I looked around briefly for a pricing page, About, or FAQ. Couldn't find any. Maybe it's intentional - that's a different discussion I suppose.
orlandopabout 14 years ago
Looks great! Like the theme and after a couple of minutes trying it, I can see its uniqueness.<p>Do you mind mentioning what gems you are using? The hide/unhide of the child tasks looks good, and also like the dragging to reorganize.
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shiftpgdnabout 14 years ago
I'd like to see something to trank time spent on a task. Perhaps in 15 minute increments?
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sagacityabout 14 years ago
Clickable:<p><a href="http://tasskr.com" rel="nofollow">http://tasskr.com</a>