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Did you see Nozbe.com? That is the most GTD-centric TODO list I have seen. I also found it to have some good user interface ideas, like drag-and-drop reordering of lists.

But, there is also RememberTheMilk.com, toodledo.com, and many others. Toodledo.com has a nice comparison table of the biggest names in this space.

IMO, the biggest problem with most of the entrants in this area (Backpack being the exception) was UI clutter.

From what I've read about Tonic, they have a lot of tech for Powerpoint compatibility--in particular, reading Powerpoint files, writing powerpoint files, and converting them into file formats which do not require powerpoint.

Slide.com doesn't do anything with PowerPoint. If you go yo Slide.com, you can see that they are not a presentation software company; they are a social networking widget company. Slide.com is not about technology--in fact, their tech looks downright trivial. They are all about branding. Slide.com has no technology to buy; they only (maybe will sometime) have customers to buy.

Scribd managed to get 9 front-page links on Digg, and a couple on Reddit, in the last month. That is why their traffic is up so fast. Personally, I assumed that the Scribd guys were posting these high-traffic pages themselves in order to get noticed by diggers and redditers.

Every scribd page that I looked at (from Reddit and Digg) could have been done just as well (and in some cases, substantially better) as HTML, using any blogging software (e.g. WordPress, blogger.com) instead of Scribd. The value-added features it offers (basically, a worse-is-better reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat, and collaborative editing) only caused me discomfort.

instantdomainsearch.com's FAQ promises not to share your searching with anybody. But, pcnames.com makes no such promise. I don't trust pcnames.com

Where? I am currently in Thailand.

You are a victim of YC's marketing. First of all, if you don't need their money, don't sell part of your company to them. And, if you do need their money, don't make it so obvious or you'll have no room to negotiate the equity you are selling them: people keep saying $15,000 for 6% but those are just averages--the equity range I have heard about was 1.5%-12%. I think you would be a 12%-er for sure.

If I had a good idea that I believed in, I would go to my friends and family and ask them to loan me $2,000 a month for eight months. If I succeeded, I would pay them back their money + interest + whatever I felt like giving them as a gift. If I failed, I would get a real job and pay them back in a few months time.

This is an interesting application. But, your demo video does not do it justice: (a) It is too long; (b) your folders that you use in the video have too many files in them; you say about 10x more words than necessary; and (d) your voice, combined with the bad microphone input, make the explanation sounds pad.

Your main competition is not USB drives: it is HotMail, GMail, and Yahoo! Mail. Once people are taught the "email it to yourself" trick, they love to use it--I think because it is not so intuitive for people, yet it is so simple, that they are proud that they are doing something so clever.

How do you explain the fact that the pencils I buy today are a lot more sophisticated, more comfortable, and have more features (refillable lead, advancing the lead via shaking) than the pencils I bought 10 years ago? The cost of a simple pencil is like $0.05. The pencils I buy are almost $10.00 each + lead + erasers. I like the $10.00 pencil guys' business plan a lot more than the $0.05 pencil guys' plan.