mgirkins

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Comment · 19 days ago
Thanks! So far 30% of pageviews are signing up, but I haven't posted it in many places yet so only 25 people so far. Hopefully once there have been some emails people will be more interested in signing up.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this! I just spent a very enjoyable hour there and I’m sad others won’t be able to do the same in future.

They appear to work with many institutions in a consultancy capacity so I hope that this will still continue in future even though the museum itself has to close.

Comment · 1 year ago
I fully agree with the value of breaking down complex projects into smaller chunks tasks but I’m not sure it needs a chatGPT wrapper.

Doing it yourself using an app like https://tatask.com will be much more beneficial. You need to know how and why different parts of a project fit together to gain mastery of it. I think that’s lost if AI makes those connections for you.

Full disclosure: I built Tatask years ago

Comment · 2 years ago
I built Tatask.com for this! I want to have easy visibility over everything but quickly drill down into specifics so it uses a tree structure for tasks.

You can break down any project into smaller and smaller sections to whatever degree you like and it makes it super easy to visualise everything and make progress.

Comment · 2 years ago
Wow, that's incredible to hear, what a major turnaround! As someone who has close people suffering from alcoholism, I can understand how tough it can be to encourage change.

It is cool that you're planning on telling the story in churches despite not being religious yourself. I think that's a great place to reach people and I really hope that your message gets across to lots of people in need.

You've definitely made a good impact this year, huge respect.

Comment · 2 years ago
That was not your mistake, I only added it after reading your initial comment!

Thanks for the detailed response, I understand what you mean by not wanting to give your credit card info out. I used to not have that requirement and then was encouraged to do so by someone I respect in business. The logic was that it is a very saturated market and people are prone to trying lots of options without paying them much attention whereas if you've given over your CC details you're more likely to use the trial period fully and therefore get benefits from the app.

I might switch to freemium at some point soon and see how that works for people. Given it's a side project I'm not sure why I'm so concerned about maximising revenue as that's not really the goal!

Thanks for the advice, I hope that you end up using Tatask from here on out. Also if you have an iPhone, the app is in review currently and should be released very soon.

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