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Show HN: General Task, a free task manager for builders (beta)
Hello everyone! I left my job to start General Task a little over a
year ago, and have been building a better free task manager with a
small team. We aim to be the best place where one can find what's
next in their workday and we integrate with a number of different
services to help do that. We're still in the early stages of a
beta, but so far you can: - Create/edit tasks with due dates,
priorities, and folders - Drag tasks onto your calendar to block
off time to do them (syncs with GCal) - Sync with Linear (JIRA
coming soon) to see tasks assigned to you - Sync with Github to
see your PRs - Integrate with Slack to make tasks directly from
Slack What sets us apart? We know there are tons of task managers
out there. We believe ours is different because it is tailor-made
for engineers, with integrations for Github PRs, Linear and Slack.
We also support dragging tasks onto your calendar, which is usually
only found in premium paid products, while our consumer product is
free and always will be. Our mission is to make knowledge workers
more productive, and we believe the best way to do that is by
focusing on software engineers and achieving mass adoption of a
free consumer product before releasing a paid product for
businesses. Let us know what you think! NOTE: We currently only
support Google sign-in, sorry about that! We will be adding more
login options soon. If you don't want to sign in with Google, you
can see a quick 1 minute demo of our features here:
https://youtu.be/NUOIH2On_Nw
Author : jreinstra
Score : 60 points
Date : 2022-11-18 17:55 UTC (3 days ago)
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| akcreek wrote:
| This is a solid take on task management. We've got some similar
| features in https://hourstack.com with dragging and dropping
| tasks from other platforms into a calendar (team or personal).
| However, our focus is on tracking time against those tasks once
| scheduled and then reporting, invoicing, etc. against the work
| completed. So different end goals.
|
| Best of luck to you as it looks like you've got a great start.
| jreinstra wrote:
| Cool, thank you, and best of luck to you too!
| burkaman wrote:
| Looks useful, trying it out. Feature request (once you recover
| from the hug of death): I'd like to be able to drag emails onto
| my calendar in addition to Linear issues and Slack messages.
| Right now it's common for me to have a "reply to x" item on my
| todo list.
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thank you! Yes, we are very keen on adding better email support
| over time!
| thecatspaw wrote:
| I hate to be the first comment and be negative, but pleease dont
| hijack the backbutton.
| jreinstra wrote:
| Yeah, I just noticed that a couple days ago - it's a bug and
| definitely not our intention to do that. Will let my team know
| about it now!
|
| Edit: it's fixed now
| [deleted]
| aliqot wrote:
| Dang I was super excited to try it but I can't use Google. Are
| there plans to add any other means of signin soon?
| jreinstra wrote:
| We definitely will be adding other signup options, no ETA on it
| yet though!
| aliqot wrote:
| Thanks looking forward to that and some clarity on pricing.
| jreinstra wrote:
| It's free forever for individuals, and we will roll out a
| paid business product next year.
| dcsan wrote:
| I like the look of it, and "single-tasking" is great. It also can
| block out your calendar so you get less random meetings popup.
|
| But I can't see any info on pricing? I see "free to start!" but
| always worried about roach motel business models - esp since the
| TOS is soooo detailed this doesn't seem like a happy hacker side
| project? Am I the product, or just too cynical nowadays?
|
| update: after reg i see:
|
| _> That means we will be keeping our personal productivity
| solution free forever._
|
| so i guess that means you're banking on a 2B version later?
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thank you! You are not the product. That's correct, we will
| release a paid product for businesses next year.
| spaceman_2020 wrote:
| I'll be honest, you had me sold when you mentioned "single-
| tasking".
| jreinstra wrote:
| Haha amazing!
| [deleted]
| aliqot wrote:
| What is the distinction between the purple text and the black
| text in the Terms of Service?
| jreinstra wrote:
| Oh whoops, that's a bug. We're having someone fix it now!
| aliqot wrote:
| Was that from edits made?
| jreinstra wrote:
| No, it's just a styling bug, as far as I can tell.
| dchuk wrote:
| Looks really nice. Here's my feedback to another app maker that
| would make any product in this category into a killer tool:
|
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32313583
|
| " 9 points by dchuk 3 months ago | parent | context | prev | next
| [-] | on: Show HN: Emery - Personal productivity workspace
|
| I've tried a lot of apps like this over the years. Two main
| things I've struggled with with all of them:
|
| 1) none seem to handle multiple calendars well. I have a personal
| calendar, a work calendar, and a side project calendar, I want
| them all to be independent, have tasks blocked out on them, etc,
| but still be aware of each other. So for example, I want to
| schedule a doctor's appointment on my personal and have my other
| calendars mirror that time block, but scrub the details/make it
| generic. Super specific idea obviously, but if I don't have it I
| have so much manual overhead aligning everything that I just give
| up and do it by hand.
|
| 2) they are all dogshit slow (not sure about this one, haven't
| tried it). The combo of electron apps and what I guess is just
| calendar synchronization latency makes them have surprise ux
| patterns and overall just shitty experience in general.
|
| A third thing is that I really enjoy planning my life with a
| kanban, and executing my day from a todo list (scheduled). That's
| hard to nail.
|
| Last: my notes live separately (as most people's do I've seen
| anecdotally).
|
| I hope someone can really succeed in this space because time
| blocking is so powerful, but nothing has fit my lifestyle quite
| right yet unfortunately."
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback, this is super helpful to us! We are
| working to improve our multiple calendar support soon and
| always keep performance top of mind.
| __erik wrote:
| This looks really cool and something I would use, but I'd need to
| see more on data retention and security. Just by nature of the
| product it requires sharing a lot of potentially very sensitive
| information.
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thank you! That makes sense. What do you think would make you
| feel better about our data retention and security? Would
| something like SOC-2 compliance be helpful?
| __erik wrote:
| Data policy, knowing what and how data is stored, would be
| good enough
| jreinstra wrote:
| Got it!
| aussiesnack wrote:
| Looks promising. The task/calendar linkage is a good reflection
| of how I like to organise my day.
|
| Any plans to extend the Github integration to Issues in addition
| to PRs?
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thank you! That's a good suggestion, our next integration is
| JIRA but we'll definitely add Github issues at some point as
| well.
| aliqot wrote:
| What is the distinction between the normal parts and the all-caps
| portions of the Terms of Service?
| jreinstra wrote:
| This was something our lawyers recommended. I'm not sure
| exactly why we do that, but my guess is to emphasize certain
| parts.
| aliqot wrote:
| Lawyers before a pricing page, that's interesting. Is this a
| VC-funded or bootstrapped project?
| jreinstra wrote:
| Yep! Our product is free for individuals (paid product
| coming later for businesses), so we didn't add a pricing
| page quite yet. We've raised money from friends and family
| and a couple of funds but consider ourselves pre-seed
| currently.
| aliqot wrote:
| > Yep! Our product is free for individuals (paid product
| coming later for businesses), so we didn't add a pricing
| page quite yet. We've raised money from friends and
| family and a couple of funds but consider ourselves pre-
| seed currently.
|
| Congrats on the launch, thanks for the response
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thank you!
| Void_ wrote:
| What's up with all the task managers lately? This feels like the
| fifth I'm seeing in the past 2 weeks.
| [deleted]
| jreinstra wrote:
| It's a crowded space for sure! I personally think productivity
| is a really important problem facing society and so I don't
| mind that so many people are trying to do something about it.
| dathos wrote:
| Looks good! Once another sign up becomes available I'll give it a
| look
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thanks! We'll have to add that soon!
| rhacker wrote:
| Love the idea. Item becomes a specific calendar thingy. Great
| job.
|
| Please fix the back-hijack to HN though. (it's like forwarding
| twice for some reason)
|
| edit: I see you're aware of it!
| [deleted]
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thank you! And yes, we're having someone look at that right
| now, sorry about that!
|
| Edit: it's fixed now
| MH15 wrote:
| Don't post things to HN that break the back button.
| jreinstra wrote:
| Sorry, we're trying to fix that now!
|
| Edit: it's fixed now
| programmarchy wrote:
| Looks slick and feels super fast.
|
| One thing I like about Linear is having multiple
| accounts/workspaces and easily switching between them. As someone
| who manages multiple Gmail accounts and projects, this would be a
| nice feature. Totally understandable why it's not in the beta,
| though.
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thank you! I'll pass that suggestion along, thanks for the
| feedback.
| jreinstra wrote:
| Hey, thanks to those who pointed out the back-button override
| bug. We've just shipped and verified a fix for that!
| stokesr wrote:
| Really love the idea of single tasking! All this talk about how
| to multitask more efficiently gets old pretty quickly
| jreinstra wrote:
| Thanks so much - agreed!
| rchandna wrote:
| [deleted]
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