Ticklists App

This app is now live and you can try it out at Ticklists.app.
To find out who it's for and how it works, see TickLists.com

Background

I've been trying to manage our household shop with a shared google spreadsheet with my partner for a long time now, and whilst it was far from ideal, it was way quicker to use than any apps I downloaded and tried.

The first pain point I hit was that none of them had bulk upload, and none had a spreadsheet view for fast bulk editing.

Another personal pain point was the huge amount of repetative tasks I have daily or weekly to manage a half-hectare property, and whichever list method or app I used, I wasted so much time clicking things in apps or moving tasks and text.

‍

Competitive Review

The market lacks a multi-platform app that helps multi-person households to shop in person at stores for large lists of items such as a food shop.

Added to that, it's much more efficient for the shopper if the list is in the right order i.e. the same order as the store layout.

‍

I researched the market and was really dissapointed by all the apps I found and used.

I've also personally used multiple apps to try to organise my 'To do' list - both repetative daily routines that happen daily or weekly, or list of 'Work to do'.

I found that complex apps like Asana are amazing for work teams, but too feature heavy and therefore clunky for the purposes of a household manager. Simple list apps like standard notes don't have enough features to make them filterable and useful for these two very specific cases - Shopping Lists, and Routines/To Do Lists.

‍

User Research

When I work on a client project I always do as much in-depth user research as the project budget allows for. In this personal project though, I knew if I started research I'd never get around to building it, so I decided to build the app that me and my partner really need - it's a small app, so it's pretty fast to build after defining it - and then to user test out in the wild.

‍

Personas

Shopping Lists‍

• People managing multi-person households — repetative buying, all household members only need to tick items that ran out
• People on special diets — Tag & colour code ‘safe’ or ideal diet foods to easily select when ticking or shopping
• Carers / people managing households for elderly parents — Easy to share a  list the elderly have access to and see who ticked items to keep them seperate
• People with ADHD — the "I forget everything at the stores/shops" audience is massive and very vocal online
• Anyone doing meal prep or batch cooking — organised shoppers who want structure
• People who ‘discount shop’ in different stores, the tags can be used to label which stores have offers that week on certain items
• Renovators & Tradesmen — Long lists of what to buy at hardware stores with detailed notes
• Small Businesses — Everyone can access the list to tick what’s run out
in the shared kitchen

Routines‍

• Habit builders — Those with a repetitive routine wanting to select days for certain exercises or tasks - the list is easily filtered by tag or day of the week.
• People managing large households — repetitive tasks that need to be done every day or only on specific days like ‘feed an animal’ twice daily or ‘water plants’ only on thursdays
• People with many family tasks — repetative tasks, like ‘doing the kids hair for school’
• Household maintenance — Per person lists so that everyone is clear on their upcoming jobs and which day of the week they’re due
• ‍Business Routines — Any business checklist that's daily or weekly - e.g. a Print shop that has to do print machine maintenance every morning before the print run

‍

Goals

I wanted to create a very simple, but very useful app for a very niche task, but to do it better than the other complicated and time-consuming apps that are available.

I also want to employ myself for a decent income.