Try it for free - cool.
What's happened? I'm at a login screen. This isn't sign up. There is no sign up link here. Let's go back. Back isn't working! Oh, new tab opened (why do that?)
Back to main page, let's look for signup again. Nope. Back to 'Try it for free'. Oh, there is a 'signup', but it's in a really pale font and doesn't look like a link. Make account (sigh)
Learn to use NubiDo - double click me. Double clicking makes a box slide in from the side. Am I supposed to just play around with this?
Maybe I have to double-click on the yellow box at the left hand side? Nope, single clicked, and it is gone. How do I learn how to use nubido now? Click around a bit trying to find 'bring back finished tasks', nothing. I can't find out how to use nubido. I'm leaving. (End of session)
There are quite a lot of pain points there. I genuinely at the end don't know how I'm suppose to learn how to use nubido.. is the assumption I'll just click around and pick it up?
Bonus comment about me using your product:
I know you aren't going to want to hear this, but I suspect too many people have got burnt by task managers disappearing on short notice. You (in my opinion) have to be clear up front about how I'm not going to lose all my data when you pack up.
At the very least you need a way of me getting all my data out.
I just use a Trello board for my personal todo lists, it's simple and I know it won't be going away anytime soon. You can add attachments, due dates and all sorts of nice little things in a card.
I use it to manage projects with collaborators too so everything is in one place which is nice for me.
When apps describe themselves as "beautiful" and "elegant," it rubs me the wrong way. Those are subjective things that I decide, not the developer(s). It's like a mother telling everyone how handsome her son is. If he's handsome, people will probably know it already.
I disagree. Someone describing their app as "beautiful" or "elegant" tells me that they really care about the beauty and elegance of the app and have spent time to make it so to the point where they are confident in attaching those adjectives to it. In my opinion, this is a good thing, because we need more people who actually care about what they build. I think that the audience being the ultimate judge, while true, is besides the point.
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.
* The content in the video is too small to see what's going on without going full screen and then it's blurry
* The color choices need to be redone
The grey text on grey background in the sidebar and the calendar are nearly impossible for me to read and I don't have an issue with color blindness or anything. There's just not enough contrast and the typeface is very thin/fine.
The red text on the sidebar is glaring and also hard to read. The red chosen is also used in the calendar and makes it difficult to read the date or anything else that might be in the calendar square.
I couldn't get past this to give it a longer look it was just too off putting.
The page itself isn't yet optimized for mobile. That's coming soon. If you view the video in full screen mode, it's a lot clearer. There'll be an option to select the color scheme in a future release.
No, this is not "beautiful, elegant, and simple". It's ugly, the login page makes me think of 2003, and it's completely unintuitive. I hate it when people call their program "beautiful", but usually they at least have put a modicum of design work into 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.
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?
Yes, the landing page and sign up process are a work in progress at the moment. The client app was built using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) but with significant custom development. The backend is Java/MongoDB/AWS and some other services.
Please refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8131650
That website is very smooth in how it handles the demo and signup process. Yours ends it abruptly with the sign up page that opens up a new page.
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.
Wow a lot of comments about the landing page and login screen. Did anyone even bother to look at the app itself? It actually seems pretty cool. Don't know if I'd switch from my listing app just yet, but it's a good start and an interesting direction.
I'm going to guess this is Apple only? The only giveaway on that is the picture of the Mac on the front page, but it never explicitly states what platform it's for.
that's what i thought too. A lot of people probably won't even sign up to test it after seeing the screenshots. It looks more like a functional prototype "designed" by a programmer...
[+] [-] CJefferson|11 years ago|reply
Try it for free - cool. What's happened? I'm at a login screen. This isn't sign up. There is no sign up link here. Let's go back. Back isn't working! Oh, new tab opened (why do that?)
Back to main page, let's look for signup again. Nope. Back to 'Try it for free'. Oh, there is a 'signup', but it's in a really pale font and doesn't look like a link. Make account (sigh)
Learn to use NubiDo - double click me. Double clicking makes a box slide in from the side. Am I supposed to just play around with this?
Maybe I have to double-click on the yellow box at the left hand side? Nope, single clicked, and it is gone. How do I learn how to use nubido now? Click around a bit trying to find 'bring back finished tasks', nothing. I can't find out how to use nubido. I'm leaving. (End of session)
There are quite a lot of pain points there. I genuinely at the end don't know how I'm suppose to learn how to use nubido.. is the assumption I'll just click around and pick it up?
Bonus comment about me using your product:
I know you aren't going to want to hear this, but I suspect too many people have got burnt by task managers disappearing on short notice. You (in my opinion) have to be clear up front about how I'm not going to lose all my data when you pack up.
At the very least you need a way of me getting all my data out.
[+] [-] RoseO|11 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] enraged_camel|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] bastijn|11 years ago|reply
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)
[+] [-] jamesbritt|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ktsmith|11 years ago|reply
The red text on the sidebar is glaring and also hard to read. The red chosen is also used in the calendar and makes it difficult to read the date or anything else that might be in the calendar square.
I couldn't get past this to give it a longer look it was just too off putting.
[+] [-] kkalra|11 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] leephillips|11 years ago|reply
https://github.com/shacker/django-todo
[+] [-] totothedog|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] 23andwalnut|11 years ago|reply
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?
[+] [-] kkalra|11 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] pbreit|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] jpel30|11 years ago|reply
But yes, fix the login screen...
[+] [-] java-man|11 years ago|reply
http://goryachev.com/products/taskmaster/index.html
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[+] [-] dimastopel|11 years ago|reply
Version 36.0.1985.125 m (Windows 8.1 Enterprise OS)
[+] [-] hkuiouhuijuhkjb|11 years ago|reply
lol
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