GoThroughList – Setup Your CheckLists

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I think developing a tool for SMEs like this is really tough. Whenever I come across a new one, in order to evaluate it, often one of the first questions I try to answer is: how's this better than a Google Spreadsheet? Most of the time the answer is that it isn't, unfortunately.

I don't have many checklists (three in fact) but they're in a folder in Google Drive. Each one is a spreadsheet that has the template and a when doing a run the template is duplicated and renamed to the date.

With that setup I think I've accomplished the main selling points of this tool: central repo, sharing, history, dashboard. Plus I've revision history and audit log.

Additional upsides are that it's an existing tool that I pay for and use and users are familiar with it. Plus I've none of the limitations of not having a paid version.

In addition to the services already mentioned here, there's also Manifestly (with whom I'm not affiliated--I'm interested in this space as a potential competitor ...): https://medium.com/manifestly/checklists-and-to-do-lists-are...

Is checklist software something people pay for? I recently wrote https://checkfox.app as a toy, inspired by Atul Gawandes “Checklist Manifesto”. I’d love to know if there’s a market for this sort of thing.

Depends on how you frame it, and who you try to sell to, but yes: https://safetyculture.com/iauditor/

Yes, I had written something similar for the Big 4 many years ago it was an auditing solution, web-based and work well. Back then it was good business but then my father got ill so decided to halt the company. The continuous hassle of getting the invoices paid by the Big 4 was one problem. Waiting up to 180 days to get bills paid...

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