I made a side project that I think is useful, wondering if anyone else agrees.
Trying to turn a side project into a side hustle, so I made smartlist.dev.
It came from a need of knowing people took the same steps as part of a build process that had a lot of human parts to it. What I needed was a history of what people did case something went wrong, I had a place to check.
I have no marketing background, and to be frank at this point I'm just interested in seeing if people find it useful. I'd love to hear suggestion/feedback/critiques on the app or idea.
I also made the lists shareable, cause I'm really interested in seeing how people use this tool, I don't really have specific use cases in mind.
I for example am sharing my simple spot check for production releases, maybe it's a starting point for other QAers out there.
QA List
I think I like the project but I have questions about how adaptable it is. I think you should do slightly more market research or even interview some of the doctors or nurses.
thank you, this thread revealed the medical cohort to me, I'll definitely start reaching out to the medical community, it's not a use case I thought about but logically it does make sense that "open source, sharable" procedures do make a ton of sense in that industry.
Hey Rulian,
I checked the site but based on the info on it I'm not sure I clearly understand what the tool does and how it works. Can you please share a bit more detail about the problem it solves and how it solves it?
Sorry, yes my website definitely needs more directions which is what I'm trying to define right now cause I don't know what the "messaging" should be.
Basically, it's a TODO list that is meant to be repeatable, kind of like how pilots use checklists to make sure they don't skip a step when taking off and such.
So the checklist belongs to teams, which can have several users. So users can complete different tasks in the TODO list, and you'll have a history of reach iteration of when the checklist was complete, and people can see the history and know who did what.
It's basically CI for humans, but I'm interested in what non tech people could use this for which is why I hesitate to brand it as a tech tool.
I would look for ONE use case where you know people use this approach (reusable checklists). Try to find a few of those people and learn about their needs and how they currently solve it and what the pain points are.
If you do that, you should get a pretty good idea what problem you actually solve and can tune your landing page and app accordingly.
I agree with @feriforgacs: currently, it's pretty unclear what the app does and why anyone would need it. So try to find someone who needs it and then model the marketing after that.
thanks, I think I'm going to do a demo video to include, but I agree i need to make it very useful for 1 group of people first before trying to cast a wider net.
This can be used for servicing/repairs support. If you can also integrate graphic illustrations (option to show video) then it will be even more helpful.
thank you for the suggestion
I see, that makes sense. Thank you for the additional info. We did something similar with the development team I worked with, but we used a simple Google sheet. It worked fine and everybody knew how to use a spreadsheet so the learning curve was quite short.
What do you think, what tools are your competitors?
I'm guessing notion would be the closest, or google sheets as you say but much less purpose built so it requires more convention and learning curves as you say.
Mine would be a very specific purpose, kind of like teamretro, though if someone finds a use outside of web dev I'd be very interested in seeing how lists are used.
No knowledge on this, but checklists are huge in the medical field. Might be interesting to do some user interviews with docs/nurses/etc.
will look into it thank you!
If Atul Gawande ever tweeted it out, you’d be golden in that world. So that’s one person to ask about the features … https://twitter.com/Atul_Gawande. I just tweeted this at him.
OMG Thanks so much for the help! will follow up for sure!