Looks like the vast majority of this is built as a wordpress plugin. You may run into scaling issues due to the massive amounts of overhead within the wp_loop for this to be something sustainable long term.
Looking through the rendered source somewhat confirms this, and puts together a darker picture of sloppy, jQuery riddled javascript flung into whatever context it was needed.
I don't know how this is much better than asana (which is totally free, and quite performant) or tools like Firetask, Things, or any other myriad GTD tools. It's simply slower than those, and that's unfortunate.
Congrats on shipping something. Please take the time to polish it up as your immediate next step.
edit: Yikes. Wordpress isn't as secure as you think it is. things like this:
Wow. Sorry, I can't support any web apps that modifies the wordpress app into something else. It's pretty much like using Flash to power the Login forms on website.
It's an automatic deal breaker for me.
I do hope Jottly reconsiders this and I'll try when this happens.
Just some feedback.
I like new shiny things so thought I would check it out. I think you need to take a look at asana (http://asana.com/) and decide if you're just trying to do the same thing they are doing. Because they are doing it REALLY well.
- I think the aesthetics are great, but for me personally there is just too much whitespace.
- The time for a jot to save is just too long.
- The fact the page refreshes on new jots is very distracting and in today's world of Angular/Ember/Backbone you shouldn't be refreshing pages.
Will definitely have another look should you do some updates, but really you have a lot of work to do to bring the app up to par with asana. Because I think that's your direct and already established competition.
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 39.4 ms ] thread1. It's slow. I've come to expect a full JS front-end app for productivity tools nowadays, page loads feel very laggy.
2. They request your password in the email you have to send them to delete your account!!! That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Looking through the rendered source somewhat confirms this, and puts together a darker picture of sloppy, jQuery riddled javascript flung into whatever context it was needed.
I don't know how this is much better than asana (which is totally free, and quite performant) or tools like Firetask, Things, or any other myriad GTD tools. It's simply slower than those, and that's unfortunate.
Congrats on shipping something. Please take the time to polish it up as your immediate next step.
edit: Yikes. Wordpress isn't as secure as you think it is. things like this:
https://jottlyapp.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=delete&po...
as a direct action within your application isn't such a great idea.
It's an automatic deal breaker for me.
I do hope Jottly reconsiders this and I'll try when this happens.
I wish you guys the best luck on this though.
Too bad I can't find it because I really want to submit this.
Will definitely have another look should you do some updates, but really you have a lot of work to do to bring the app up to par with asana. Because I think that's your direct and already established competition.