Upcoming stuff for Taskerrific, part II

Before getting into the meat of the post itself, let me first apologize for leaving everyone hanging for the last couple months. Being a lone developer means that when things go south personally, your projects go along for the ride, too. However, I’m back, and getting back in stride with Taskerrific. With any luck there’ll be some updates and fixes next week.

First, let me state that Taskerrific won’t be going away any earlier than April. This isn’t due to any last-minute fundraising saving the day, but rather me predicting a doomsday earlier than it’ll actually happen. However, without some income for the service by then, Taskerrific may go down temporarily or permanently, depending on how the hosting situation plays out. While Applied Innovations has been a great host, there is no such thing as free IIS/ASP.NET hosting; at some point bills have to be payed. I’d love to stay with them, but if I can’t give them money for their services, alternate arrangements will have to be made if Taskerrific is to survive.

Which brings me onto the next point: advertising. It’s not something I understand all that well, but I understand enough to know that using Google AdSense won’t bring in enough to keep the site running. Over the next while I’m going to be spending time trying to pull in an ad network that might actually be profitable, and able to work with my needs. This might include short, tag-line ads in the footers of e-mails sent out by Taskerrific, and not just the ad column on the site. I won’t get any more intrusive than that, though; I hate annoying, epilepsy-inducing Flash ads as much as the next person.

That’s pretty much it for now. If you think you can help me out (by donating to keep things running, get me in touch with people I should be talking to, or perhaps getting me ads), please give me a shout at Chris at taskerrific.com!