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An email-to-task browser extension found hundreds of thousands of users before charging for pro features.
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Courtland Allen said Task Force had several hundred thousand users after launch; after adding paid pro features at $5/month, it made roughly $2,000–$3,000 on its first weekend. A Chrome extension/widget that turns emails into tasks and sends status updates to the email participants. Pro features were offered for $5 per month. The speakers discuss this business as a concrete example of a focused internet product. Its most useful lesson for a new founder is to tie the product promise to a specific audience and to keep the evidence label attached to every result. Task Force was designed with a built-in invitation loop: when one person converted an email into a task, the other person received a message about it. Courtland says the app grew to several hundred thousand users after launch. The opportunity is not simply to copy the surface; it is to understand the audience’s recurring job and build a product whose value can be demonstrated quickly. The numbers support attention or payment as stated, but they do not independently verify profit, retention, or durable demand.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel anytime, in one clickData credibility: Courtland Allen said Task Force had several hundred thousand users after launch; after adding paid pro features at $5/month, it made roughly $2,000–$3,000 on its first weekend. The figure is reported by a participant or creator in the video and was not independently audited; no unreported conversion, margin, or sale price is inferred.
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