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Re: Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

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Post by aioprisan »

dieselz wrote: post #4

Looks great! One suggestion would be to change your pricing from $0.99/month to $11.99/year. Assuming you're going to use Stripe, you will be charged $0.65 in credit card fees if you charge yearly instead of monthly, which will cost you $3.94 per year. Since the service is so cheap, I doubt you'll see much price elasticity between the two price schemes. Even if you do see lower sales, you'll likely still end up makin…

We love Stripe and have the payment piece ready to go but we're still trying to figure out the different plans. Good point on the monthly/yearly pricing. The hosting costs are so pretty small so that even with millions of tasks, a user would only use a few MBs of storage, so instead of making a few cents per user per month and nickel&diming our users, we'd make it free for personal usage and try to monetize via other sources. Any thoughts/experiences/requests on the feature set and price points? What would you pay for a task list management system? What about a task collaboration platform (think multiple users collaboration, comments on tasks, file attachments etc)?

Re: Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

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Post by aioprisan »

jergason wrote: post #10

This looks really nice. I have used several todo lists, and found them all too complex. I made a little bash script called badoop at https://github.com/jergason/badoop if you prefer command-line apps or TaskUp isn't bare-bones enough.

Thanks for the feedback! We have both an API and command line interface that will be released in the next month. We want to get people to use TaskUp as much as possible without getting in their way and a CLI is something that I find myself using from time to time as well. We'd love your feedback on our CLI if you'd be interested in checking it out!

Re: Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

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Post by smurph »

Question: Does it sync with any other task lists? Like Google Tasks or Astrid? Are you planning on doing that?

Funny story: A while back I was messing around with the Windows Phone SDK and I started a todo list app which I named "TaskUp". I did a search on the various app stores to make sure the name wasn't taken. I guess nothing lasts forever..

Re: Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

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Post by aioprisan »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #7

Doesn't handle my use case - lists within lists. Workflowy does this excellently, and I'm not switching to anything that doesn't do it at least that well. (If you don't care about hierarchical lists then this site looks pretty though.)

Version 2 coming out September 15th will have project management features, with lists within lists, task child-parent inheritance, and other project-management style features. We're still working on refining that piece because we want the UI to be very intuitive and we've scraped 2 designs so far because it wasn't intuitive enough. Getting this piece correctly is very important to us and I think we've finally got it figured out. We'd love your input when it's out to see what you think!

Re: Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

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Post by aioprisan »

smurph wrote: post #14

Question: Does it sync with any other task lists? Like Google Tasks or Astrid? Are you planning on doing that? Funny story: A while back I was messing around with the Windows Phone SDK and I started a todo list app which I named "TaskUp". I did a search on the various app stores to make sure the name wasn't taken. I guess nothing lasts forever..

Yes, that's part of our version 3, import/export from various providers as well as calendar tie-ins!

Re: Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

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Post by AndrewDucker »

aioprisan wrote: post #15
AndrewDucker wrote: post #7

Doesn't handle my use case - lists within lists. Workflowy does this excellently, and I'm not switching to anything that doesn't do it at least that well. (If you don't care about hierarchical lists then this site looks pretty though.)

Version 2 coming out September 15th will have project management features, with lists within lists, task child-parent inheritance, and other project-management style features. We're still working on refining that piece because we want the UI to be very intuitive and we've scraped 2 designs so far because it wasn't intuitive enough. Getting this piece correctly is very important to us and I think we've finally got it…

I'll happily take a look then!

(As an example of how I use it, here's my wedding planning list: https://workflowy.com/shared/b5d25b0b-c9e3-b573-deb5-cc552d9... )

Re: Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

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Post by julius »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #7

Doesn't handle my use case - lists within lists. Workflowy does this excellently, and I'm not switching to anything that doesn't do it at least that well. (If you don't care about hierarchical lists then this site looks pretty though.)

I have been using Workflowy for many month now. Its not perfect. But it has served me well, longer than any other list application. The list app I like best is org-mode in Emacs. Sadly it is not in the cloud (and requires Emacs). TaskUp.com looks really polished. Good Job.

Re: Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

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Post by murrayb »

Tangentially related to the parent topic- I have grown to appreciate "tasks" in Outlook mostly because of three features 1. the ability to flag an email as a task 2. ease of right click and adjust follow up date "today, tomorrow, this week, this month etc". 3. attach/link emails and other docs within tasks, so I can group related material together (OK mostly needed because Outlook search isn't as good as gmail :)

I only use Outlook at work and while I'd much rather use gmail for mail management I do want those features for task management- without mail integration any task list is not quite there. (I process my inbox to empty as I find email makes a very poor task manager despite the vast numbers of folk who use it as such...)

Edit: just found you can do 1. above in gmail, open the email and hit "shift+t" it includes a link to the email.

Re: Show HN: TaskUp.com - the only task list you'll ever need

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Post by al_james »

I love the pricing scheme. Most web based services start at several dollars a month (probably because of card processing fees) or an expensive yearly signup. For a simple task app like this, I would not pay several dollars a month and a yearly lump sum would be 'risky'.

I know the service provider is probably paying a huge % of card processing fees though. I wonder if there is a service that would handle 'subscription micro-payments' for cheap services like this (eg. combine all your micro-payments onto one bill to save fees)?

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