From your pricing page, what are "Basic Goal Types" and "Advanced Goal Types"? Is that like, "do my laundry" vs. "solve P == NP"? As a visitor, these labels mean nothing to me.
Thanks for the good point, I will have to populate it more.
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#12Ok so my honest opinion is that this, although it can be nice for certain things, will not turn out to be a success. My reasons:
1. The people that like to track everything probably can also use custom spreadsheets, e.g. in Google Docs.
2. Keeping track of your cigarette or food consumption will probably not help you quit smoking or loose weight.
3. There are already competing sites that look more polished and seem to have more features.
4. (For me) the best way to remind myself of something is putting a sticky note on my monitor. :)
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#13Nice, I've been looking for a goal tracking solution that can spit out graphs for me!
One thing that does bother me about your site... is the "caroussel" image effect for the screenshots. It seems more gimmicky than useful, and is not appealing. At first it looks like a bunch of small screenshots floating about willy-nilly. It just looks out of place.
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#14Was 38, 39, 40 and 41 all taken for something else?
I imagine '42' was picked both for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference and to be somewhat similar to the goal-tracking site 43things.com.
Not sure I get naming the company something so similar to 43things - I initially assumed it was a total knockoff, but the feature sets are actually pretty different.
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#15Ok so my honest opinion is that this, although it can be nice for certain things, will not turn out to be a success. My reasons: 1. The people that like to track everything probably can also use custom spreadsheets, e.g. in Google Docs. 2. Keeping track of your cigarette or food consumption will probably not help you quit smoking or loose weight. 3. There are already competing sites that look more polished and seem t…
Thank you for your honest opinion!
Could you give some examples of those web-sites?
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#16The image rotator on the frontpage looks really cool, however on my screen(1280x800) it doesn't add any clarity on what the app does. The images are way too small.
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#17Ok so my honest opinion is that this, although it can be nice for certain things, will not turn out to be a success. My reasons: 1. The people that like to track everything probably can also use custom spreadsheets, e.g. in Google Docs. 2. Keeping track of your cigarette or food consumption will probably not help you quit smoking or loose weight. 3. There are already competing sites that look more polished and seem t…
Thank you for your honest opinion! Could you give some examples of those web-sites?
Sure, quick Google-search ("goal tracking") for example gives me:
* http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Best-Goal-Tracking-Tools-Online
* http://lifehacker.com/5439026/five-best-goal+tracking-tools
If you want to compete I guess you have to look at the competition and either do something different or do something better.
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#18nice site, good idea. I use todo applications like Done on my iPhone to document and keep track of long term goals and Omnifocus to tick off tasks against projects but this could be slightly different and work well with these tools.
Thumbs up: [+] nice design, clean [+] signup is simple and easy [+] intuative and easy to use - like the keep clicking to change on boolean
Thumbs down: [+] echo the upsell [+] would be nice to have the option of going to the details menu once you add a goal, rather than adding the generic ones and then editing it [+] the roatating screens are nice but they could be larger and the transitions a bit more smooth (bit chucky at the moment at least on my browser)
Future features: [+] definately be handy as a mobile app [+] linking to a todo app or providing that functionality would be great: Don't forget the milk, Omnifocus and Things for the iPhone are my favouries [+] export reports and get them emailed to you [+] email and/or sms in values for the day [+] goal reminders and how much you have left [+] add rewards for yourself for achieving your goals [+] timeframe to goals - i.e. life, 3 year, 2 year, this month etc
Commercials: I wouldn't pay $5 per month for it at the moment. If it was $3-5 one off as an iPhone app and had the todo features or linked to my existing todo app I would buy it.
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#19Ok so my honest opinion is that this, although it can be nice for certain things, will not turn out to be a success. My reasons: 1. The people that like to track everything probably can also use custom spreadsheets, e.g. in Google Docs. 2. Keeping track of your cigarette or food consumption will probably not help you quit smoking or loose weight. 3. There are already competing sites that look more polished and seem t…
I'm not sure why someone downvoted this comment. They said it was their opinion, and personally it mirrors mine. It is quite a nice little web app when you look at the demo, but I cannot imagine that people will pay for it - there are just too many other options available to people.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for your honest opinion! Could you give some examples of those web-sites?
Sure, quick Google-search ("goal tracking") for example gives me: * http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Best-Goal-Tracking-Tools-Online * http://lifehacker.com/5439026/five-best-goal+tracking-tools If you want to compete I guess you have to look at the competition and either do something different or do something better.
Thanks for the links. Evernote is a really nice service for keeping notes, but not really for goals tracking. Joesgoals is also nice, but not maintained currently. Excel... well, one can probably do pretty much anything there. And of course, I'm not trying to compete with paper, pen and friends.