andyshora

This is really useful, thanks! I can now use Github to navigate starred repos instead of a hundred disorganized bookmarks :-)

Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

I just taught a workshop in a big digital agency, and on 2/8 Macs Chrome didn't work without the -webkit prefix.

Just shows how often people update.

Don't drop them.

Oh really? Hope it's not the Azure cloud over Sweden! try again, let me know.

Thanks :-)

Never considered a backend in the cloud before, and as I'm just getting into Angular I'll definitely give this a try. Nice one guys!

It was my first startup job, I barely knew how stock options worked! I'll admit, I was easy to play.

I joined a promising startup 18 months ago as the 3rd developer, employee #6, and was promised vast riches in the very near future. I was promised a decent amount of preferred stock options which 'would make me rich', and joined on a salary about £15k less than I could have earned at an established company down the road.

Over the next few months, while the company size went from 6 to 20, and the board were organising the stock options scheme, I was still highly motivated by the favourable options which had yet to be sorted out. A year in, and I was given a very very small fraction of the 11% option pool, which would amount to less than 0.1% of the total shares, which was also subject to dilution. At this point I had all of the speculation previously made by my superiors denied, my importance to the company was downgraded, and I struggled to negotiate a raise in salary that would bring me up to what I'd call an average salary.

This whole procedure was very demoralising, I would have been happy with no options and a decent salary to start with, and all of the speculation of how many billions the company would get acquired for in a years' time would not have bothered me in the slightest. After all, we had no customers, had not launched a product, and I was a key developer. Needless to say I left shortly after to start my own company.

When I left, they offered to 'do something' about the options and give me the raise I wanted, but at that point for me the damage had been done, and I no longer had the ambition to work there. I didn't execute any of the options that had already vested, and used this £300 to start my business.

From my own experience and speaking with a lot of other startup employees in the UK, I believe we care more about the starting salary, and absolutely have to treat options as a bonus. Not only because of the dampened IPO/acquisition outlook in Europe, which i think many startup employees are unaware of, but because startups are a smaller part of our economy. In London for example, 'Tech City' is right next to THE city, where my friends work. You've got guys earning nothing at a startup, working and meeting for drinks, and living with friends who work at banks down the road. I would imagine the US startup scene feels much more like a microcosm, and because we are yet to have that level of separation in culture and circles we socialise in, the difference in lifestyle a salary gives you is a lot more noticeable.

I regret not adapting this mentality from the start, and when we hire our first employee, I will certainly make sure the reason they are taking the job is not the millions they are guaranteed to make in a few years' time.

Thanks :-)

It performs surprisingly well on iPhone 4, no additional work done for mobile support, the mobile browsers tend to handle CSS3 animations pretty well. Perhaps if the animation was constant (as opposed to an easing transition) it would be less jerky, but then it would be extremely annoying!

Thanks for the feedback! I've made a 'hideAfter' option, so in a serious scenario I'd probably set it to hide after a couple of nudges, so as to draw the user there initially. But for the demo I've set it to infinite so as to annoy all of you as much as possible :-)

You are probably right. I've made a 'hideAfter' option, so it can maybe do 2 or 3 small nudges then disappear, so as to initially draw the eye to a CTA. Although by default it's set to annoying mode :-)

well spotted, thanks :-)

Nice idea, I'll try and think of some additional options to make it configurable for this. Thanks!

I'm going to split test it on a new site soon, have no idea if it will have a positive effect on sign ups. What do you reckon? I'll do a post on the results, either way!

v2.0 :-)

Great list. I'm keen to get people involved in a collaborative playlist on Spotify for this sort of music!

spotify:user:torres87:playlist:0rJuefgfGm6Ms99hYuq051 http://open.spotify.com/user/torres87/playlist/0rJuefgfGm6Ms...

How about this guy: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/people/michael-scott

http://slashdot.org/

I've created a Collaborative Task Manager, http://managewith.us which allows remote members of a team to manage a list of tasks, seeing updates in real-time (a bit like Etherpad).

There's a free version, but I'd be happy to give your readers a discount on the Pro and Enterprise packages (they are relatively affordable anyway).

If you're interested drop me an email, which is info@ the domain above :-)

Andy

That's a great idea, thanks. I'm looking forward to having some spare time to concentrate on the marketing side, so when I do I'll make this a priority.

Brilliant idea, love it. Thanks!

Fixed, a CTRL+F5 should get this working. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback.

Checking the tasks is currently just used for archiving & deleting tasks, and will eventually be used for downloading and forwarding tasks as well.

All changes should update in real-time (assuming you have separate sessions open), if it's the same session you probably won't see any changes. Can you confirm if this works?

Thanks

I'll look into that, thanks.

Thanks very much

Will get this sorted, thanks.

Hi Matt, that's really useful, thanks.

Glad you can see there might be a niche for this kind of product. I'll take your pricing guidelines into account, and I may well reduce the pro account to be more in line with the users' expectations.

Sharing/ease of use is exactly my selling point, and it's one which not many similar apps out there have.

Cheers

Hi Gary,

I really appreciate the feedback so thank you very much. It's great to know that you can see I'm trying to address a specific problem, and not become another generic task management app.

I will follow your advice, which echoes what another startup founder has said to me, so hopefully I'll have the sign up in place this week.

Cheers

Hi jcr, thanks for the feedback, and for pulling out some positives!

Thanks for finding the bugs, I'll take a look asap.

I think you may be viewing the read-only task set, in which the checkboxes will soon allow you to download and forward the selected tasks.

The 'who' column is definitely under consideration.

I'm aware that a task management app can easily become something that's trying to cater for everyone. As this is the MVP at the moment I'll take your suggestions into consideration, so thank you I really do appreciate it.

In my eyes Google Spreadsheet is very generic, you could compare it to thousands of apps out there and argue that it is better. I'm really trying not to make another generic task manager, but one which is suited to teams working together in a multi-office environment.

To answer your question (if it is still required knowing my intentions a bit better), Google Spreadsheet requires you to sign up, it requires typing in fields such as a 'status' or a 'priority', it doesn't look as attractive, and it's always going to be branded as 'Google Docs'. Most importantly, it's not a task manager! Although it can solve a magnitude of problems, it's not exactly tailored to a specific one. Some would argue that it has more value, some would argue it has less.

I'm aware that this market is crowded, but I appreciate you believing I have a good start, and I really hope that the simple concept I'm trying to introduce will be noticed by a small fraction of the market out there who may find my product more suited to their business need than the product they are currently using.

Cheers!

Hi, cheers for the feedback.

I am very aware that this market is very crowded. I don't know if others will agree with me, but I believe the market is crowded with informal generic task management apps. The majority require a sign-up, and don't update in real-time, you need to refresh the page to see other peoples' changes.

I'm hoping to find a slice of the market who would find this app more suitable for their needs. I'm quite open in the direction I'm going to take it, but I'm hoping that the 1-click start, the collaborative nature, and the simple concept will give me a decent foundation to squeeze my way in.