In the past 6 months our service Thymer.com was in Beta, and today we've finally bit the bullet and launched.<p>No regrets so far!<p>We got our first sales minutes after going live, and now we're dealing with the many emails we get in our inbox every minute. A good portion of those have a GMail tag "gotpaid", indicating that we just got another sale.<p>Our server is feeling the load, but still very stable and responsive -- so we're doing OK on that front too. Crossing fingers.<p>The point of this post? Not much. It's just that this kind of post inspired us to put in unreasonable ours ourselves. Just wanted to say thanks for all the advice and encouragement we've gotten on this board (under various aliases).<p>Thanks so much!
If you don't mind, how did your beta testers and first customers find you?<p>Such a crowded market makes SEO difficult, and I think the AdWords rates in that area run $10+ CPC.
Very unique and thoughtful approach. Nice work.<p>I love how it isn't a blatant basecamp rip like so many other project/task management apps out there.<p>Also, I would get a woman to do the voice over. No offense.. I just think your 85% male target market will appreciate it more.. =)
Played around with it a little bit. I think you should move the Green "Today" line above the tasks planned for today. Right now, the tasks are all above it and I find that awkward for some reason.<p>I'd rather it be more like:<p>[ Today ] -------------------<p>task 1 for today<p>task 2 for today<p>[ Later ] -------------------<p>Oct 21 task X for later<p>Oct 26 task Y for next week<p>Also, I'd prefer for the later dates to be on the left, since "Today Oct 20" is on the left. I'd just like to scan down the left side column and see all of the dates for the tasks.<p>The sign up form is interesting and it made sense to me, but I think some people I have dealt with would be confused by the password is _____; yes really ______.<p>Didn't notice anything about invoicing or leveraging the @billable. Is it possible to write "coded web interface @2hr @$75 for @someclient". It'd be cool to log my time + a dollar amount, then be able to send an invoice to @someclient that totals the $ amounts for tasks logged in a date range.
Looking very good!<p>One thing, I'd try to eliminate all typos before launching. "Get projects dones" should be "Get projects done". To be quite frank, I don't quite feel the dynamic in that sentence.<p>Run over your copywriting, and you've got a great starting point!
Just some pieces of constructive critcism; the flow of information on the homepage is very confusing. I can't quite make out what you want the user to look at first, nor what is the most important information on the page.<p>Your call to action button is also the same colour as the YouTube caption label.<p>You also jump from centred to right aligned text a lot. I can see what you're trying to go for, but this doesn't seem to work on this occassion.<p>Hopefully you take my comments in the right light!
Nicely done!<p>The tag line -- "Project management and task planning for people who hate project management and task planning" -- really got my attention.
Congrats! When I read the first tagline I thought great... just another clone of Basecamp/Harvest/Freshbooks/Tickspot/etc. But it looks like you're doing something really unique and I like it.<p>I also love your signup form. Everyone should geo-target like that.<p>One note: the CSS of the app in Safari 4 has some problems, particularly around the top menu bar.
I think the name is a bit... random.<p>Thyme is a spice, and it seems like you chose it because it sounds like time. Unfortunately, what it looks like is a lot more important than what it sounds like on the internet.<p>Your name is going to confuse both potential customers and probably the search engines as well.
I just started using it, and it seems prety basic (in a mostly good way), but the reliance on dynamic HTML drives me nuts.<p>How can I link to a specific item? How do I pass URLs to specific items in, say, irc?
I plan on giving this a whirl, but I'm wondering: Is there a REST API so I can push and pull data from handy scripts and not have to pop open a browser (for example, to get a list of open items)?
It's very slick. It would be nice to have a task automatically save its changes once you click somewhere else on the screen, instead of having to click on the "Save" button.
Congratulations on the launch.<p>If I may ask, why such a prolonged Beta period (6 months?) and what did you learn during this phase (in terms of features, etc.)?