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So I received your tweet and I ADORE checklists. You had me pegged.
Call me political about this, but when I see tools like these I can't help but feel they ignore a TON of use cases where busier, less technical workers, could benefit. As our economy shifts into more and more people performing service oriented work (serving, retail) to make ends meet, tools like these could help improve their jobs.
Case in point. I've used checklists in restaurants to reduce wait times and increase cleanliness and for training. Restaurants often don't have the budget to put such devices in the hands of every employee (nor any reason to). My checklists were on paper.
I'd love to see an app integrate with paper solutions via QR code or bar coded printing. Then you only need one employee with a smart phone to snap and catalog checklists turned in by fellow employees.
This is more a criticism of the entire field of checklist apps than yours in particular.
Hey @trulyadamant
Thanks for your comment. I agree that it's a great opportunity for the less tech savvy workers to get some real help performing tasks.
However I'm not sure a paper solution is the way to go, It might but I feel you don't fully utilizing the full potential technical help can bring.
That being said your idea using QR coded paper checklists to scan right in to the app to get the history and statistics is not a bad bridge between a full paper system and smartphones for everyone.
I'l have to think about it and do some customer surveys to see if that is something that is requested.
Anyway, thanks for the awesome input!
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@frejnorling sure, and we don't have to agree on it. But as much as I love digital records we'll never surpass paper for time-to-action. The cognitive load to bring up an app is far more intense than any of us want to admit. Then you have to account for device speed, bugs, training, and more. For the great many businesses where putting a $1000 phone in the hands of each employee isn't reasonable, cost effective, or time effective paper wins.
It's the "minimum viable tool" for businesses in states unfortunate enough not to have a burgeoning tech industry. Which is most of them.
@trulyadamant I totally agree with you! The question I'm asking myself is how I want to position the product, to be a technical product that fits teams with technical workers or something that can fit both technical and non technical teams.
Edit: Rephrased my thoughts for clarification.
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@frejnorling well, for what it's worth technical teams seem pretty well served. Non technical teams seem drastically and woefully underserved. A hybrid solution that's easy to under stand is something I could push to my clients for sure.
@trulyadamant You have me convinced, I will definitely look in to how a solution like that could work. It must be dead simple to use and understand, so to get the feature design right will probably take some time.
Thanks for the awesome feedback and new insights into how people might use and find value in Firesub.
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Hey! Glad to see this topic and this product featured. How does this product differ from the other offerings in this space (IE Process Street, Manifestly, Tallyfy etc.)? Along those lines from the feedback you got during beta what features are upcoming on the road-map? I'm a huge fan of this space so glad to see another offering in the marketplace!
Hey @bryanwatkins thanks for your comment!
The main difference is that Firesub is built around simple, reusable checklists. I want to avoid describing in details **how** a process is performed, instead I built Firesub to help teams with **what** should be done.
There is 2 important features on that I'l implement next, the first is to be able to add "Task status". Instead of just marking a task in a checklist as completed, you can add different possible statuses for each task, like Approved & Not Approved, or maby Waiting, In progress and completed.
The second feature is to be able to assign specific tasks to a team member so only he or she can mark that task as completed.
Besides this, I'm going to improve team member invitation so a member is added to the team but marked as "Invited". This way you can continue design your checklist template without the need to wait for the person to sign up.
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Not sure if it's allowed but I reviewed your app from a ux point of view. I screencasted it so you can see my pain points, watch the video here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/...
That was awesome @outsprung! Thanks a lot!
First of, this is not a product aimed at shopping lists and "one time"-tasks, like grocery shopping. It's checklists for repetitive tasks.
While I watched this I was sitting and pointing at the screen saying... "click there to view the checklists..." and that's not the way to do it! =)
I'l definitely take your suggestions to heart and going to improve the product based on your pain points..
Template duplication is coming also.
Thanks again for the awesome review!
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@frejnorling@outsprung i quickly realised it wasnt a one time list making app, so yes not really suited for my gf. would still be nice to have the option though to make the one off list.
haha thats the usual reaction i see from usability testing, in your head its so obvious but to others not so much, i guess it shows the importance of testing your ux.
I will certainly be thinking about using these templates with my team however, I do have them doing the same task each week and would make a great time saver
Interesting idea! My first question was "how is this different from Asana" but I dig that it seems a LOT more focused.. and you can more easily track the progress of multi-stage tasks.
I wonder how many teams really know all the stages they go through though; to be able to set up a workflow? It seems that could be the biggest barrier to adoption. How have early testers responded?
Thanks @afhill for the comment!
Yes, Firesub is a lot more focused than say Asana and other project management systems.
By looking how the beta testers have used Firesub, they often start with one or two checklists, and usually not that many tasks, the tasks in the beginning is pretty broad, like, "Contact the customer", but after a few completion they develop the checklist, adding more tasks, change tasks to be more specific, splitting tasks into more detailed tasks.
A way to lower the friction to get started is to have a directory of ready made checklists that teams can pick and choose from. And customize to fit their processes.
Hello Hunters!
Thanks @bramk for hunting Firesub!
For the last year or so I’ve been building a checklist management app for teams called Firesub.
The idea is to help make recurring tasks easy to remember and perform in a consistent way across the team.
It is an app that let you create and manage checklists that you and your team can follow whenever you need to perform a repetitive task like marketing, customer onboarding, new employee onboarding etc.
There is a ton of awesome features like assign people to checklists, scheduled checklists, email notifications when checklists is completed and so on, too much to write here, so please “check it” out. =)
I’ll be around to answer any question or feedback you have.
Thanks!
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Can you explain in greater detail why this is better than Process Street? It's my understanding that PS is also centered around recurring checklists.. From their landing page: "Process Street is a simple, free and powerful way to manage your team's recurring checklists and procedures."
Sure @bbzeven!
The main difference is that Firesub is built around simple, reusable checklists. You want to avoid describing in details **how** a process is performed, instead I built Firesub to help teams with **what** should be done. Whereas PS leans more towards helping teams how to to stuff.
@outsprung I do not have that today, but this is something I'm going to add. I would like to have a directory/gallery of ready to use templates for different categories, much like an app store but for checklist templates. Maybe be able to rate checklists, or just showing how many have used that template, some kind of ranking.
Having this could also allow experts in different fields to create and share templates for everyone to use, maybe pay them to create this checklists. This has also the potential to allow businesses to create templates to be used for tasks needed to be performed while using their specific service or product.
A lot of potential could come from a feature like this.
Thanks for the feedback Paul!
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