We wondered why nobody had solved this problem either and decided we could serve the world better by making an innovative PM tool rather than another “innovative” video sharing service.

Your point on performance is a good one. Actually building a snappy web app is quite a trick. Particularily when you are aiming to go head-to-head with desktop applications and can be dealing with thousands of tasks at a professional level of planning. For instance, we had to figure out how to make all the rescheduling asynchronious so that you could keep on editing while we crunch through all the probability curves.

You have to approach the problem from multiple angles, the architecture, the page optimization, and the UI design. It's key to study the end-to-end activities that people do and consider the whole picture so that ultimatly, people can spend less time planning and more time doing what it is they do.

Charles, CEO, LiquidPlanner Inc.

As a long time user of MS Project – when my software development project starts slipping (inevitably) I get no help to manage priorities and assess how realistic my targets are.

It looks like the ride is free for a small team of up to 3 people. I will be checking this one out – hope it is snappy enough to be useful – one area some web 2.0 apps are lacking at the moment – but even web apps are getting faster thanks to continuous deployment and tuning they can do…