Show HN: A beautiful, elegant and simple task manager

I'm looking at it on a macbook pro 17". I can't see what's happening in the video because the recorded area is too big and the video plays by default too small. This isn't a mobile issue, and on desktop when going fullscreen the video is blurry.

For me there won't be a "future" release because the landing page itself (the looks of the app) turned me off. The color scheme is garish, at best.

I'm not trying to be rude just give very honest feedback.

You're website is not user friendly and I cannot try a way to actually test this on my number one object of task management: my phone. The movie isn't playing either so I'm asking my questions here in hope someone can share some details.

How is this app different from others? Personally I use Todoist as a paid user. It has projects, tags, nesting, task sharing with other users, integration with all platforms including mobile and common applications as chrome and Outlook. In addition it has a load of other minor useful functions as email reminders, adding tasks via email and much more. What would this task manager bring me? Why should I switch?

A quick list of their key selling points: - beautiful design (top just for fun)

- access to tasks everywhere.

- filters, searches, tagging

- collaborate on shared tasks

- projects, tasks, subproject, subtasks

- recurring tasks

- notifications

- human due dates for quick entering (tomorrow, next week, today, or pick a date)

- priorities assignable to tasks (also searchable and filterable)

- notes attachable to tasks, a bit like Evernote has.

- realtime syncing (actually really important)

It looks like a lot of work went into it so nice job on that.

But there's something about the design that feels very "off". It's very unconventional but in a very bad way that both looks ugly and feels confusing. "Beautiful, elegant and simple" don't cross my mind at all.

As everyone else has already said, the design needs some work - the landing page, the sign up process, and the actual app. You should definitely check out some of the landing page templates and app templates at themeforest.net. At a minimum you can use these for inspiration/examples of attractive landing pages and apps.

I only played with the actual app for a couple of minutes, but it feels pretty solid...and fast. What did you use to build it?

I expected the "Try it for free" button to redirect me to a web app. Not a login page.

I think end users should be able to demo the app - even a simplified, I'm-not-going-to-remember-any-of-your-stuff version before even signing up.

The big reason why I clicked this link in the first place is to answer this question: is this app worth my time?

The todo app market is heavily saturated, so answering that question up front will be key to your success. And if you're forcing me to sign up (putting a wall in my face) just to get a glimpse of it, I'm inclined to think this app is not worth my time.