Side Project: Jecklist - Part 1

The goal of this project is to build a live web application that can gain real user traction and be beneficial to friends and family. These series of posts will document the steps we took to build a live web application from the ground up, lessons, and roadblocks that will inevitably come our way.

Jecklist is a sharing to do list app, but different. Instead of juggling multiple lists people have shared with you, Jecklist makes it easy so that everyone can share a single list. With a checkbox for every person next to each task, you can easily see who has or hasn’t completed a task. This can encourage accountability and motivation to complete every task on the list. Jecklist also lets you know the percentage of how much you’ve completed an entire list. Simple and easy to use, we created Jecklist to maximize productivity by keeping yourself and others on track.

Part 1

What always helps me understand what the first and following steps should be is writing user stories. Once you think from the user perspective, the necessary features naturally come into mind.

The technologies we have decided thus far is Rails for the backend and JavaScript and perhaps another framework for the front end. We felt that using a Postgresql database will best serve the functionality of this app.

More to come soon!