Ask HN: Please review our Startup idea

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3385943

by gdhillon • 15 years ago

4 10 15 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Hi Guys,

Could you please help review our startup idea. We have developed a context aware to-do/task list application. We make recommendations on how to complete each of user's tasks.

If users decide to do the recommendations then we help them complete that through our application. Any feedback is welcome.

Url to landing page: http://diglig.com

Teaser Video: http://youtube.com/watch_popup?v=QquawVqesWs

Also, please signup for beta invites as we'll be launching early 2012.

gdhillon5• 15 years ago

Trying Click-able links:

http://diglig.com

http://youtube.com/watch_popup?v=QquawVqesWs

richf2• 15 years ago

It sounds interesting. My only concern is that the to-do list market is so saturated that it might be hard to get traction.

gdhillon5• 15 years ago

Thanks Richf. We are hoping that our ability to help complete the task will attract users. Most to-do list applications just sends a reminder and that's where it stops. Here at Diglig we stay with the user until very end.

richf2• 15 years ago

It's very good competitive differentiation from the pack – hope the users see the value.

louhong• 15 years ago

I agree that the to-do market is crowded but you're offering a new value prop which could be interesting. The challenge is that I don't really understand by what you mean by 'recommendations to complete my task'. Inherently, all I need are reminders since I know what and how I want to accomplish my task. You might want to provide examples so clarify the value prop.

gdhillon5• 15 years ago

Louhong, Thanks for the feedback. For example, lets say you have a tasks on your calendar that say "meeting with customers in new york".. We identify that your hometown is San Francisco based on your profile. So what we would do is to not only remind you about that task but also offer to book a flight/hotel or maybe a web-conference for that meeting.

Another example is that let's say you have a reminder about "Wife's birthday". Again, instead of just a reminder we would make suggestions to buy gifts/flowers or book a restaurant for dinner.

Now if the user decides to do one of our recommendations then they can complete that from within our application as we are partnered with 3rd party services such as Expedia, OpenTable etc.

Hope this clarifies, please feel free if you have more questions.

ChrisNorstrom• 15 years ago

Hmmmm. Interesting.

Nice sticky footer - I would move the Copyright notice to be on the same line as the "about us / contact us / invite friends / blog" just left aligned, and the links right aligned. That way your footer isn't so giant.

Because the header is down so low there is space above it which draws the eyes up there. This makes the header conflict with the 3 steps content in the middle of the page. You don't want your logo to stand out more than the benefits and features of your website.

Speaking of logos, it's too big for your header and there is barely any space around it, it looks like it has out grown the header. It's size is also distracting.

The 3 steps need to be further edited down to less words that make more sense. I'm not sure what step 2 means. Get recommendations on what? How to complete my tasks? You need to be more specific. Step 3 is does not really belong. In fact having 3 steps just complicates your process. Just make it all one step.

- "Diglig brings together all your events and tasks from the sites you already use, and gives you recommendations & links on how to complete them." Replace your 3 steps with a video or screenshot of your web application and to the right of it put that text with a signup button underneath.

gdhillon5• 15 years ago

Chris, Thank you for the great feedback.

AznHisoka• 15 years ago

there's so many to-do apps out there... but there's still room for good players.. the problem is most apps don't even utilize what we know about GTD/psychology in developing a framework that helps you get more done. They just give you the tools and hope you figure it out yourself. They provide a technical solution, when getting stuff done requires a more in depth psychological one.

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