http://tasskr.com
1) Add a couple more features that are geared around integration with people's workflow, like phone reminders, and maybe some ability to, oh, I don't know, send a grocery list to a husband, or a parts list to a delivery guy.
2) Research, research, research, where people are spending money on the internet for something like this. You'll find the usual suspects, like Basecamp, and you'll want to avoid being like that. Instead, you'll want to find underserved markets niches, dozens of them.
3) Once you've identified the markets, build a list of them, and outline the contents of a landing page for each niche. Do this on the computer, so that you can programmatically create all these landing pages and capture some of the long tail traffic.
4) This should really be #1, but get someone to start paying, anyone. This will force you to scratch someone's itch who has money. Make whatever changes they need so that the service is valuable to them. You really need to find one person out there, who's saying "I wish I had an online task list that met my needs! If I only did, I could make $X more this week/month/year."
Sorry to snark, it just bugs me when people assume that because you slap a "for business" or "pro version" onto something, that business users will want to use it. Businesses like saving money just as much or more than people.
If there's not a compelling profit purpose, businesses won't buy it.
I am just curious how this one stands out?
It's also why you are doomed as they will try something else.
I wish you luck in getting a stable customer base to launch something bigger. You could use this product to start building pagerank and your brand. Look at http://www.6wunderkinder.com/ for ideas on how they are doing it.
A couple of quick thoughts:
1) You might want to make it clearer which features are in the basic model and which are in the "Pro" version on the landing page
2) I'd maybe change the wording around the "More Features" section. Maybe I'm being hyper-critical, but it sounds more like "here's my project, what do you think?" rather than "Here is my professional piece of software that is being actively developed and having new features added daily".
Maybe something like:
"Taskrr is under active development, with new features being added on a daily/weekly basis. Please feel free to suggest new features via [feedback form link?]. You can see our current roadmap here [link to dogfooded dev roadmap using Taskrr!]"
Hope that helps.
Mark
Personally, not a fan: forcing me to Sign Up before I get to see any more information. Why only one page? I looked around briefly for a pricing page, About, or FAQ. Couldn't find any. Maybe it's intentional - that's a different discussion I suppose.
Do you mind mentioning what gems you are using? The hide/unhide of the child tasks looks good, and also like the dragging to reorganize.
nested_set, devise, jquery-rails, dynamic_form, chronic, chronic_duration, easy_dates, lazy_high_charts, recaptcha, rspreedly, redcloth, delayed_job, workless