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daniel at chcheck dot com
Again -- a feature that wasn't ready for public consumption.
The system has a few different objects that can be embedded in pages and checklists - todo lists, data lists, docs, files, comments and other checklists. The feature needs some work before its usable.
Rider, thanks for the feedback.
This happened about a month sooner than I was planning so I haven't had a chance to address the learnability of the app yet. Would love to have you check it out when I am a little farther along.
The app you are logged into is a place to create and share your checklists with a defined group of users, for team and business settings.
What you are looking at also provides the interface you login to when you want to create checklists or work with one of your running checklist instances.
What you are talking about, the directory piece of the puzzle, is in development and almost out the door. It will allow you to find checklists in this manner and clone them into your account so you can edit them and create any number of instances based on them.
chcheck is designed first and foremost to be useful for individuals, small teams and small businesses.
The current interface is in the process of being given a more understandable and inviting initial user experience to accomplish that.
I apologize if that seemed like an exaggeration. The directory is why I created this product, that feature is just not out-the-door yet. This post was a little earlier than I was planning.
One of the intentions of the product is to handle these large distributed processes with the management of a Master Checklist that can be diffed with other masters and instances. I added that feature to facilitate those sort of crowdsourced checklists/processes.
all these are create ideas and built into http://chcheck.com -- the focus is also on process and workflow management for small businesses and teams
http://chcheck.com - daniel at chcheck dot com if you wanna try it out
You can create checklists, create and track changes between instances, diff changes between the master and instances, create iterative checklists, embed checklists in other checklists and set dependencies. Also the interface was built with usability and flexibility in mind.
I have also added task, data list, comment, contact and document management since all of those are necessary for a good process management tool.
My inspiration for this was the fact that process and workflow management is a pain point for individuals and small businesses and there have been no easy-to-setup, user focused solutions out there.
I will be putting up a directory of public checklists in the near future, once the rest of the product is stable and usable.
I was waiting to post this but until I was ready to open signups but I have working on it for the last 4 months.
Email me if you want to be a Beta user: daniel at chcheck dot com. There are some bugs but it is definitely usable.
I could see this being useful for identifying and studying groups of people with similar habits and then targeting those groups differently.
But labeling people as more or less productive based on their habits with certain types of applications sounds a little nonsensical to me. Where's the focus on meaningful results?
If you know nothing about it and are looking to launch a product anytime soon, I would focus on targeting a particular demographic with better design, marketing and demographic-specific content.
Unless you are ready to get your hands dirty with the semantic side of search, I would focus on creating a more enjoyable and emotionally appealing experience for a particular demographic of consumers. Maybe teens, students, mothers, whatever...focus on building a loyal, targeted user base.
Otherwise you run the risk of just being a couple cool features that the big boys can use as inspiration for their own work.
I am in an almost identical situation, also out of LA.
I am wondering where people would recommend looking for a co-founder if you are in an area where the startup community is hard to find.
I would just send them the link to this thread if I were you...