Show HN: Subtask – Organize projects the way your mind works

"At least 5 characters, only letters and numbers please."<p>It's 2013. Why are there still constraints on what characters can be use for a password?<p>I would love to hear from the author why this is the case.

Does anyone's mind actually ever work like this? Mindmaps drive me insane.

Flashback. I worked on a failed mindmap startup with a web-based tool just like this (it was 1999 so of course it was Flash!).<p>As the other commenter said, there's a split in people who learn well with mindmaps and others like me who prefer lists.<p>The startup I worked on: Mindwarp Pavillion in Dundee got licensing rights to stacks of textbooks. They created loads of mindmaps based on study books and sold access to students for a few bucks a month.<p>Even (better?) the mindmaps were a quiz where the student had to answer the next node. There were studies showing that using this method they retained a lot more information.<p>I was told that the whole mindmap concept was protected somehow (patent?) which they paid a license fee to use. They also got the endorsement of its creator.<p>£30m valuation when the local authority invested. They lasted a year then died, leaving my last invoice unpaid.<p>They failed because: - Students didn't pay - They could do it on pen and paper for free, while they're learning - The product wasn't driven by a real customer need: 12 months of dev on super-whizzy software without getting a MVP in students hands

Is there a demo video available? I think you should make one if you don't. Most people I've talked to having videos that outline basic way of using a product give extra 10-15% bump in signups.<p>I am for one at this point is a bit tired and would like to watch a happy video about your product so I don't have to confront my doubts and insecurities while learning subtask.<p>Maybe I am wrong but thats the first thing I looked for on your site.

I like these services, but it's like trello. If I have personal tasks to do, those personal tasks will often include sensitive data. My grandmothers bank number, my medical card number, the phone number of a friend. I don't trust these services with that kind of data. Having an online solution is not a solution. Not without zero knowledge. Which they could totally do, but hell, that's hard.

Interestingly, the Privacy Policy[1], Terms of Service[2] and Imprint[3] are some of the most clearly worded I've come across anywhere! :)<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.subtask.com/privacy" rel="nofollow">https://www.subtask.com/privacy</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.subtask.com/terms" rel="nofollow">https://www.subtask.com/terms</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://www.subtask.com/imprint" rel="nofollow">https://www.subtask.com/imprint</a>

Quick question -- why is SSL encryption only offered on the top two tiers?

Two notes: - I think your Enterprise and Plus plans are too cheap. - I'm glad nobody's complaining about the prices being in euros instead of dollars. As a European I sometimes worry about exchange rates affecting my income if I price my products in dollars.

I like it.<p>A couple of issues I had:<p>- There is no easy way to select a bunch of tasks<p>- If you have selected a bunch of tasks, that's no use because you can't change them all at once (like assigning someone to an entire subtree, or setting a date)<p>- (WRONG there is a keyboard shortcut overview in the help) I have no idea what keyboard shortcuts exist and there doesn't seem to be a page that lists them and only sporadic hints on the elements themselves<p>- Links between tasks can make things very messy, but I'm unsure whether this actually gets problematic with more use<p>- For proper project management priorities are important and should be settable<p>- Tasks should maybe have optional weighting so that if you have 2 subtasks, marking one as done doesn't mean the task is 50% done<p>- Performance seems sub-optimal. While I don't experience problems during use, it is eating quite a lot of CPU power for me for things like moving around. Not a huge problem and I'm not sure this can be changed easily. Speculation: Maybe using a canvas renderer (2d or webgl if available) could prove faster. (<a href="http://jonobr1.github.io/two.js/" rel="nofollow">http://jonobr1.github.io/two.js/</a> maybe?)<p>edit: Some form of hover effect on interactive elements would help (like on the icons below a task)<p>edit2: Found the keyboard shortcuts

What is a mind map and why should I use one?<p>That is the other sale that needs to be made. As an HN'er, I'll Wikipedia up an answer and Google around on it, but how am I going to sell this egg basket to my boss for our next project? Or rather, how are you going to help me sell it to Mr. PointyHead?

Looks awesome and I'm definitely going to be trying this out. My only initial concern is about how quickly I can input a long list of tasks. I don't see anything to add a sibling tasks; a button (with keyboard shortcut) for this would definitely speed that up.<p>Also, it would be nice if when editing a task, it could centre itself onscreen or display the text you're typing in a floating box. Otherwise you quickly find yourself typing off the edge of the browser window, having to stop typing and pan with the mouse, which is a minor inconvenience.<p>What are your plans for tablet support? I currently dump all my initial ideas into iThoughts and then use something else for managing an active project. I could see this replacing that workflow with one thing.

This is pretty fantastic.<p>Some feedback:<p>* I'd really love to see a blog for the subtask site, with some information about what the roadmap looks like, what type of stack your built on, etc.<p>* SSL for the low end paid tier<p>* Conversion to other currencies<p>* Some indication on the plans page as to what payment methods are accepted<p>* The keyboard shortcuts are working extremely well, and the site is very responsive, love it!<p>* I really like that there is no per-user restriction on projects<p>* It would be really awesome to see integration with something like Trello, Github issues, etc.<p>* Definitely needs stronger password support<p>Keep up the great work! Gems like this are the only reason I keep coming back to HN.

From my experience, it's almost impossible to divide a whole software project into a hierarchical view like a mind map.<p>Take for example a simple website. What will be your first level? Server-side and Client-side? What about pages? Do you repeat every pages on each side because you have code on both? OK so maybe the first level is all the pages then? Now, do you repeat client-side and server-side work for each pages?

This looks pretty cool, I will try it out.<p>One thing that is important to me in mind-mapping-type tools is good keyboard navigation. This one is pretty good, but I think going left then immediately right (-1+1=0) should end on the same item, not the top of the list of children of the left-hand item (and the same for left-left-right-right etc.)

Looks interesting. I've been using DropTask (<a href="https://www.droptask.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.droptask.com</a>) recently which is a slightly different take on visual task management. Still not sure whether I prefer it to more traditional apps, but kudos to both companies for trying something different.

I like the idea.<p>The odd quote placement here made me laugh, though, because it almost looks like you're trying to take part of what someone said and change it by adding more: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Ea77zIr.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/Ea77zIr.jpg</a>

I really like. I find mindmaps are my preferred way of organising my tasks. The experience has been nice and elegant.<p>I did try dragging a node to an arbitrary position but looks like I can't do that.

Great tool, greatly increased the productivity of our group. The visualization gives you a proper overview of what's been done and what's still todo. Kudos.

I'd the feeling from the website that it's a better implementation of something I've already seen.

looks slick!! congrats! Is it similiar to MindNode on the Mac? I use that a lot and have been on the hunt for a great web-alternative with no success so far!

is it just me or when you signed up and create a new project, the screen is blank. Then you can't do anything.

Nice, beat me to it... :)

How do you manage poetry?