Well, maybe you'll succeed where others have failed, I sincerely wish you good fortune.
However, it just seems to be a space that a lot of people have tried. A lot of the apps aren't very good, true, but others are, and it shows signs that it's heading towards being a commodity, along the lines of web mail. To do something people will pay for, it's got to be head and shoulders above the competition, and be seriously useful to companies.
And there's nothing wrong with Rails at all - quite the contrary - I use it extensively myself, and absolutely love it. Just that a lot of people, myself included, seem to end up making a todo list app with it.
However, it just seems to be a space that a lot of people have tried. A lot of the apps aren't very good, true, but others are, and it shows signs that it's heading towards being a commodity, along the lines of web mail. To do something people will pay for, it's got to be head and shoulders above the competition, and be seriously useful to companies.
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=17662
And there's nothing wrong with Rails at all - quite the contrary - I use it extensively myself, and absolutely love it. Just that a lot of people, myself included, seem to end up making a todo list app with it.