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Taskr is a real product that competes directly with your app. Might want to change the name.

Your big "Download" button has some UI issues.

* When I click it, a popup happens far away from the button.

* The popup prompts for my email address, but when I type nothing happens.

* When I click in the popup field to type, letters appear after the demo email address "email@address.com" rather than replacing the demo.

* The letters are in light gray (same as the demo email) and hard to read in sunlight.

* The popup field continues to show a tooltip "email@address.com" even though I've typed in my email address.

Pricing seems off to me because of "Only $0.99". I want to know about value, not cheapness. I would gladly pay much more for a task manager that works well for me.

Differentiate your app from Clear and Task. (both great apps)

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Thanks for the reply!

Concerning the name, I recently realized I was conflicting with someone else's product. I'm working on changing the name.

The download button works for me, could you screenshot what you see please? Screenshot: http://cl.ly/2r2T212S3A3M1x100Y17

Price: I hadn't thought about that, I'll do some more research on pricing (probably some A/B testing would be helpful)

Differentiate from Clear: Any tips there?

And again, thanks a lot for the help!

For the name, think about Clear. They didn't choose "Task" anything because that's not their target; instead, their customers want to be clear about what to do, and clear it off their list. Very smart name IMHO. (On the other hand, the Task app chose "Task" so YMMV).

In the download email address area, don't worry about it yet -- I'm not the typical UI case because I'm on Chrome Ubuntu KDE.

Price: A/B testing is good. Bandit testing is better.

Differentiate from Clear tips: download Clear, use it, then write what your app does that's different. Or ask some friends to use Clear, then ask what they'd pay for you to change, then build that.

I had never heard of bandit testing before, googled it and wow thanks for the tip!

Concerning everything, I'll definitely work more on that! Great tips, thanks!