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HN-ers, listen to this business proposition (this is not a sarcasm, but this is an idea, a perspective if you will). Find one of the productivity books, prefer
by hello_moto 15y ago
HN-ers, listen to this business proposition (this is not a sarcasm, but this is an idea, a perspective if you will).
Find one of the productivity books, preferably ones that are quite popular. Implement a software, web-app, mobile-app, desktop-app, plugins, whatever, based on such books.You'll get instant userbase that love your software.
Rinse-and-repeat.
There are a few productivity tools based on GTD out there. Looking at the checklist-for-checklists link that adolph mentioned in this thread reminds me of Trello. Seems like a simple money making scheme don't you think?
- adolph 15y agoThanks for the reference to Trello. That looks interesting and I'm trying it out now. I think that one of the challenges in the business proposition you make is the translation from paper to screen, somewhere between Gawande and Tufte.
- zefhous 15y agoIt's a good idea, but not so simple to actually get traction... A couple years ago I was hired to build a checklist web app based on Atul Gawande's book, The Checklist Manifesto. Being the very idea that you're referring to here it's a very relevant example. The guy who hired me has invested a lot of time and some money into trying to get traction but nothing has come of it. Granted he's probably not done everything perfectly, but he's put a lot of time into seeding the site with public checklists for different subjects and trying to get people using it. As far as I know nobody uses the site. It's not that great but it provides some basic value and is definitely a minimum viable product including revisions, public and private checklists, ability to share and collaborate with others, pdfs, etc. For those curious the site is here: http://expertchecklists.com/ http://expertchecklists.com/