Ironically, the lack of prominence of pricing is due to me hating how often apps remind you you're not paying. I didn't want it to be in everyone's face, all the time. Probably bad UX and business on my end...will fix shortly.

I have one for weekend plane trips, one for short hikes, one for camping, one for road trips.

It's always nice to be able to go back to a checklist and not have to remember all the stuff that needs to be packed. It's also good to be able to update the checklist mid-trip with a "man, I wish I had a..."

For repeatable tasks I have a habit tracker on my phone, it's free and does what I need it to do. When I'm near my phone later I will update with which one it is.

Congrats on the launch! I'll definitely give yours a try.

This is what I use, I have a db called “trips”, when a new page is added it pre-fills with a generic trip packing checklist that I can customize.

To be clear: it’s not a table of items to check off, it’s a table of packing list pages, within each page is a simple checklist.

My other gripe that no one has addressed yet is editing vs execution of a repeatable list.

* When I'm editing a grocery list I want the items in alphabetical order because I'm searching a preexisting list for items to add, but when I'm executing the list I want the items in the order I come upon them in the store.

* When I'm executing a list, usually on my phone, I don't want my fat fingers accidentally reordering/editing/deleting list items. The list should be read-only with the exception of marking items completed.

* Having a list with defaults and a reset option. I often have repeatable lists with optional and required items (e.g. beach vs desert camping, groceries, etc). It would be nice to have a reset option to uncheck/show defaults while keeping all the optional items off a list.

I think a big product choice is if you expect the lists to be do-confirm vs read-do, two ways of using checklists.

I’ve found LLMs to be very good at making checklists for things I do I infrequently. Like, packing for a specific trip. I just have it go long and ignore what I don’t need. It often catches something I’d have forgotten. Maybe a feature of a checklist draft generator would be useful.

I think I'd like something like this, but I'm not 100% sure what this is. Is it an app? A mobile app? A web app?

I click on a sample list and the only things I can do from there are download the list to print it, download markdown, and download JSON.

I'm not clear what I'm supposed to do with the Markdown/JSON files.

At this point I'm not ready to join. I'm assuming that if I joined there would be an app, but I'm not sure.

Maybe more clarity on the landing page about what, exactly this is and how a typical user would use it?

Regardless - this looks nice, sounds super-useful, and I wish you luck with it!

To answer your questions here: It's a webapp, designed to work fast and clearly on desktop and mobile.

When not signed in, there's a prompt to join next to the Download and print button. Perhaps I should make that more prominent.

The download options are so you aren't locked in if you create a list. There's no checklist standard txt format, so I provide lists in Markdown or JSON, take your pick.

Seeing the download options was really reassuring. It did clearly address my lock-in concerns / worries about having to re-type everything into a new app :)

Looking at it again you do have screenshots of 3 phones near the top of the page. I think I kinda ignored that because the rest of the page didn't talk about that. I'm gonna blame my mental "ignore in-page advertising" filter for not really noticing the screenshots.

Maybe have screenshots under the 'create/perform/schedule/delegate' items too, so it's clear that you're using an app to do all this? (And what the app looks like, and the UI / UX it provides?). I myself dunno, but good luck with this, and thank you for listening to our feedback!

[1] https://alexsci.com/blog/personal-apps/

I will probably start referring to my longer checklists as "steplists" — what a great name!

I noticed that abandoned items in Focus Mode are not specially marked as abandoned in List Mode. I would expect these items to sync in both modes for this state. I also prefer a half-checked state for items in progress; it gives you some instant gratification for starting to work on the next item... but that's just personal preference.

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I built something similar as a feature embedded in a niche product aimed at helping manage a specific type of business many years ago.

The most popular part of the feature was the gamification built on top of reporting. Managers enjoyed the checklists being completed (and reported) more accurately. Staff enjoyed getting a (small) raise for being on the leaderboard.

Basically we just tracked who specifically marked an item off the checklist as complete. Then provided reports (and printable awards) to management.

The business would then implement a program like “whoever completes the most tasks per quarter gets a $0.50/hr raise”.

These checklists were things like “Front of house AM” “Back of house Lunch” etc. with a step by step list of things that needed to be done.

Just throwing that out there as an idea for a future iteration for you.

I've thought this is a well matched tool for small businesses, like cafes and repair shops with low-tenure workers and onboarding them quickly. If there's success here, I'll roll out Teams as a feature, which is about 80% done and hidden behind some feature flags.

In our little niche the median age of a typical employee is ~21. The tasks are things like “mop the floor”.

Yes, maybe someone half-asses mopping the floor to get the points.

I’ve met many a 20-something daily user of the software who comment positively on the Daily Checklist feature. I’m sure there are those who disliked it too and just didn’t say anything.

Growing up my mother was a checklist fanatic. Any time we would go camping or traveling there was the packing checklist. Grocery staples checklist. There was the yearly checkup/vision/dentist checklist for all her kids. Weekly chore checklist. Bills paid checklist. I’d not be surprised if she had a checklist-making checklist.

Her technology skills were limited, she made all of these with some crapware create-a-card software and printed them out on sheets of address label stickers. But I’ll be damned if we ever forgot to pack anything on road trip.

I’ll definitely give this a try.

There are hundreds if not thousands of to do list and productivity apps on the web, but something I've noticed is that many of the smaller ones have very devoted users. So my unsolicited advice is to try to make a niche happy, rather than trying to make the general population like it. Target feature improvements at the people who already want what you're making, ignore the folks who make feature creep suggestions because they're looking for something else.

1. https://todoist.com/pricing

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This application will be able to read and write all public repository data. This includes the following:

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Edit: Would love to have the ability to have everything completely private. Also, a one-level deep grouping would be great!

Forced arbitration and everything. Banning anyone under 18.

Is this really necessary?

And then b) I'm comfortable with a larger but one time purchase like $50 per year.

I'm not telling you it makes rational sense but this is how it plays out for me.

I agree this is a missed market, but I need this as a Django App for work (internally stored and managed). I’m trying to bring productivity tools to work colleagues.

I wasn't aware the checkmark was backwards until a beta user complained about it. I'm left handed and occasionally make my marks that way and had never considered there is a 'right' way.

The real reason it's reversed is because earlier logo iteration used it as the "L" in "StepList". I did away with that full logo, but kept the mark.

But from now on, I'm stealing your take!

I am a big fan of checklists, especially for tasks that can be operationized. What are your thoughts on making this available as a native app on MacOS and Ubuntu?

Like, does this person: https://steplist.app/users/253 know you've made it public?

On the surface this is awful. What about respect for people's privacy? Please tell me I'm missing something.

- Can't view profiles unless you're signed in

- Can't see what lists people are performing unless they're performing your list or a public list

- Can't see privately published lists written by a user (unless you are them)

But yes, I think we can take this a bit further. I've pushed the following updates:

- Can't view a user's draft lists (this was an error, now fixed)

- Can't view a user's activity unless they're working on a list you invited them to perform.

The latter issue was a leftover from a "teams" feature usecase that's been pushed back. But it's more sane now.

I'm curious about the early phase since you mentioned originally it was for your own use. How was it setup at that point? a web app with a public url too or something else? if you don't mind sharing

The nuts and bolts weren't too different from what it is today: Rails app deployed on Render with simple auth. Most of the work getting it ready for public consumption was generalizing the UX so it wasn't so specific to my way of thinking, polishing the look and feel, speeding it up, improving the auth, and other things you wouldn't really need for a personal app.