True that Outlook has excellent task management functionality, but not when you want to interact with non-outlook users, or even simply across corporate networks.
To clarify, our target is 30k not 4k. However our goal with Kickstarter is primarily to build a community of positive, supportive users that are interested in helping us shape the product.
That is correct. The iOS app will go live in October and folks are welcome to wait for that if they'd like. We're hoping to raise funds for expansion of engineering into web and android platforms via Kickstarter.
Andrew here from Taskbox. Thank you all for your interest. Hacker News is currently driving 27% of the traffic we are receiving on Kickstarter and we've already started to see some pledges. This is great.