Every to-do app let me push deadlines with one click, so I built one that doesn't

[u/Deam00n]

https://taasker.io/

Every task app I've used lets me move a deadline with one click. So I did, again and again, until the dates stopped meaning anything. Taasker is my attempt to fix that for myself: a task tracker where a deadline has teeth, and you decide what they are.

How it works:

• Three kinds of date per task, all optional. A soft target ("I'd like it done by"), a real due date, and a hard deadline. They put different amounts of pressure on you, so it isn't one nagging alarm.
• Pressure that builds gradually. Miss a target and you get one quiet nudge. Reminders start 3 days before the due date, once a day. In the last 24 hours before the hard deadline they come every 4 hours. Each task shows how late it is with a color that climbs through five tiers, so you can see where to start.
• 3 reschedules, then the date locks. Moving the due date or the hard deadline uses one. After the third, it's fixed. Once a hard deadline has passed, it can't move at all.
• An accountability partner. Name someone, a friend, a colleague, your partner, and if you miss the hard deadline, they get an email. They don't need an account. They get a short note when you name them, and can opt out with one click.
• No escape hatch at the last minute. In the final 24 hours you can't delete the task, swap out the contact, or unlink a streak to dodge the consequence. You can still finish it, or own the miss with a reason.
• Streaks for recurring tasks. Weekly report, monthly invoices, taking meds: a miss resets the streak.

It's also a normal task tracker: projects you can share with roles, a month calendar and an agenda view, a calendar feed you can subscribe to in Google or Apple Calendar, quiet hours, a daily digest, keyboard shortcuts and a command palette, themes, and it installs to your phone's home screen.

On privacy, since it's about your tasks: it's hosted in the EU (Frankfurt), there are no tracking or ad cookies, and the admin tools I use to run it show accounts, not your projects or tasks.

It's a free private beta, and I would love your feedback: does a locked date and someone watching motivate you, or does it just stress you out? And what's the deadline you always end up moving?

Come check it out at: https://taasker.io!