LISTO Collaborative, disposable checklists, no signups, just links.
All lists self-destruct after 7 days of inactivity.
I actually made this app without the intention of making it public. We use it with my family for quick lists that we can throw away after use, like chores around the house, shopping, party supplies, etc. Since itâs been pretty useful for us, decided to make it public.
The idea is simply, you create a list, share the link, and anyone with the link can add and check off items. Then after use, throw it away.
Come say hi!
Would love your comments guys. Can also talk about whatâs under the hood. Itâs not the most sophisticated app Iâve made, but definitely the most immediately useful.
UPDATE [THE DAY AFTER]
Thanks everyone for the support! It was a fun launch day. 114 lists were created and 326 items. I got great ideas from the community, very grateful for that! The next few days will be very interesting as potentially real usage starts to come in.
Created an ideas board for LISTO here if you want to add something (thanks for the idea @mikeloc:
I know that bubble creates a unique ID for all users, even those not signed in. Would be cool to add some sort of avatar situation on the lists like you find on public google docs with anonymous users. i.e. âWondering Wallabyâ, âPicnicking Pandaâ etc. Would make it a bit more social friendly.
Itâs a good idea! This kind of feature is great once the density of users is enough to capture these âmagical momentsâ, like knowing that thereâs someone else live right now editing the list, too. I could probably do this without userâs unique ids, just ip addresses and other presence-detection tech.
Have not thought about the future at all, but Iâm sure itâs possible to monetize if the traffic is there. Just want to make something very useful for everyone.
Neat idea, could be good to add a delete button if someone actually wants to delete the list ahead of the 7 days of inactivity - especially if they themselves are entering personally identifiable data into the list.
Really good use case, thanks for this. What makes me nervous is that thereâs no way to prevent anyone else with the link to delete the list you created. What are you thoughts here?
Sure, I think that at the end of the day, sharing the link with others is built on trust - if you donât trust them to be petty and delete your list, then you probably shouldnât give them a link haha.
How about if you share it on social media, and tell your followers: âHey guys, add stuff to this list of movies to watchâ or something. Thereâs where I get nervous.
Fair enough - in that case perhaps we wait until you know itâs a problem before trying to come up with a solution.
However in the meantime, it might be nice to have a disclaimer on the actual list page so that new people turning up to list to add things to it, know that itâs âpublic and will be deleted 7 days after inactivityâ?
I like to keep my world tidy, and while I like the idea of being able to restore deleted items, is there any reason that items canât be permanently deleted? So, maybe a restore icon and a âtrash this one foreverâ icon down there in the deleted items (which I might call removed items) area? Just food for thought.
Yea, the thinking goes the same as not being able to delete the list. If you share the listo-link on social media, Iâd hate it if some troll comes in and deletes all the items permanently. So I added deletion more of a âyes/noâ situation rather than permanently deleting the items.
What do you think of this situation? Or perhaps Iâm worrying about it before itâs become a problem?
Perhaps, but I might be the only person who wants to permanently delete items, so maybe leave it as-is and see if this idea bubbles up. By the way, where is your idea board?!?
Thank you everyone!
