Rate my startup: Gantto, easy to present Gantt charts on the web

1) If you have collapsed a rollup and it contains tasks with precedents for other tasks, then the rollup needs to have the lines added.<p>2) If you collapse a rollup, it should still be draggable in time (left and right) and this should move all tasks within the rollup as one thing. The first task seems to have that functionality, but that's not intuitive.<p>3) Why can't you drag up and down since you have move up and move down?<p>4) On the date picker... DD, WW, MM, QQ, YY, ALL... but where is financial year? Or rather... custom iterations (fortnights, financial year, reporting segment, etc).<p>5) If I stuck this on a web page... could I give it data somehow? Could I provide it with some XML (since I note you allow save in that format) via JavaScript?<p>6) Colours... but yeah you're getting to that. The templates... they're kinda ugly but you've got the right idea and people will want to fit them to their own company scheme.<p>7) Your zoom buttons need a "Return to default".<p>8) It's got to be said... but you really need to allow XML import from MS Project files.<p>9) Keyboard shortcuts. Think of the power users... they should be able to create tasks with the simplicity of moving through Excel... this is what your competition is. So they need to tab to go right (rather than next active control in the tab order) and return should go down to the next row.<p>Those are some starters :)

It's flash-based. I would have skipped the link if I had known.<p>My corporate desktop does not include flash. Surely corporate users are part of the core audience for Gantt charts?

Your demo is ugly (Sorry, had to say it), but it works and I like the fact that you can pan around by clicking anywhere. That is not obvious however and might need a hint somewhere. The custom scrollbar is not intuitive because of the coloring, I kept thinking the track was the slider and vice-versa. After playing a bit more with it I discovered you have color themes. DEFINITELY use one of those by default. The grayscale theme is super boring and completely opposite of your goal which I believe is to "show off" your project schedule.<p>I think you should be able to pan by dragging the chart header (the months/years).<p>Turn on alternating columns in the demo. Also use the square or round corners but not the one in the middle.<p>Also the task tree could stand to be widened a bit by default, it looks weird that in your demo you start off with a bunch of tasks only showing halfway.<p>Expand/Collapse should be a single button, the icon of which changes to indicate state.<p>When you do a snapshot it is not clear what the output file is going to be I just got a file called "chart" - is that an Image? Is it a MS Project file?<p>I'm not sure you want to use the full blow "File/Edit/Format/View/Help" menu. It blends in too much with the chrome of the browser window and you would probably be better served (in terms of UI/UX) by using standard icons for the most commonly used items. Also add contrast to that menu/toolbar (Still talking only about file/edit/etc...) so that it doesn't blend with browser chrome so much.<p>The units on the "Zoom tool" in the bottom right corner are not obvious to me (the P and W)<p>Otherwise its looking really good. Keep at it!

Probably just a coincidence, but -<p><a href="http://gantto.com/" rel="nofollow">http://gantto.com/</a><p><a href="http://preceden.com/" rel="nofollow">http://preceden.com/</a>

100% flash? No thanks. Good luck though.

Looks pretty good, I should have a chance to properly try it out when another project starts up for me in a few weeks.<p>One minor issue: the horizontal zoom is a little counterintuitive.<p>The + button increases the number of weeks shown, effectively zooming out. The reverse for -.<p>Not a major issue, but it could throw someone off, especially because the vertical zoom behaves in a standard + to zoom in and - to zoom out fashion.

Really realy minor, and not related to my personal distate of flash, but while your the tool loaded, the loader bar filled in from left to right as any loader would, but when it filled up, a second "loader" began to fill in from left to right.<p>Basically, when the first "loader" filled up to 100% and I expected to see the page, I was a put off by the second unexpected loader.

The menu within the application looks perilously close to the browser UI — For example, users could easily click the back button when trying to open the file menu.<p>Screenshot: <a href="http://screencast.com/t/NTVhYzA0" rel="nofollow">http://screencast.com/t/NTVhYzA0</a>

Video looks decent enough. I would see this as a difficult feature to get people to know about. Preparing Gantt charts for presentations seems to be a niche enough market (project managers, IT consultants, managers, etc?) that you might have trouble getting them to adopt this tool. Certainly would be very difficult to get them to pay money for it.<p>Seems more like a feature you'd expect from a web-based project management software than something stand-alone. Is that your intention here? License the technology/tools to a service like that?

Ok you can import from all the current tools but what about exporting to them?<p>This can give people the confident that I can work on this on my own but when I send the file to somebody I can send them in a format that they know (also, good for trials, I will try it but what if I don't like it, I will have to redo all the stuff in my fave s/w again)

I'm sure some people on HN would find this app useful, but how on earth has this submission garnered 39 votes in 22 minutes?<p>I hope their aren't "pay $50 to get your post to the top of HN" services cropping up...

As an alternate to expanding a task group, you might consider a drill down that just shows the sub-tasks. In the video you were able to make them fit, but that not be the case for a more complex projects.<p>From both marketing and SEO perspectives, I wouldn't limit the product overview to a video. You should add a page with screen shots, features, etc.

Wait... hasn't this idea come and gone about 10 times in the last 10 years. I remember when I begged 37 signals to add this as a small feature about 4 years ago and they laughed it off. Also, some of the text in the biographies seem a bit exaggerated.

Not sure about overall feature sets, but if Gantt charts are all you want, try out redmine (<a href="http://www.redmine.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.redmine.org/</a>). It's an open-source issue-tracker that has Gantt charts out of the box.

In my browser at work (IE7) on a 1024x768 resolution, your feedback button on the left covers your tagline (specifically the words 'easily,' 'automatically,' and 'effective.')

Just an suggestion.<p>If you made this as Atlassian Confluence Plugin AND/OR Atlassian JIRA Plugin -&#62; We'd ve more than willing to buy into your idea.

You'll want to be able to embed these easily in other pages, with very simple tags and url's, much like youtube. Does it do that?

This looks pretty slick, but 1) out of those who uses Gantt charts, who would actually use this and 2) who uses Gantt charts in the first place?

searching youtube for "gantto" yields nothing. you have to search for "ganttointro".

Gantto sounds "Ghetto".