(2011-07-15) Yahoo Sled Todolist

Eran Hammer, within Yahoo's Sled program, is working on a collaborative To-Do List app/server. I’ve been obsessed with project management and personal productivity for a almost two decades. My experience ranges from tiny lists to gigantic project plans with hundreds of people and resources. In the past I’ve been a certified PMP and managed large engineering teams. What I’ve learned above all, is that we tend to overcomplicate everything... Sled is a collaborative List Making tool with a strong focus on life events and collaboration between friends and family. Planning a party, a move, getting ready for a new baby, planning a trip, organizing a junior soccer league, or preparing for a marathon, are some of the efforts I hope Sled will be useful for. The idea is to start with a really solid tool for making lists. Then add collaboration with a few people, a little bit of social features, and later a crowd-sourced knowledge base of lists and recommendations. For the past few months we’ve been focusing on list making and the result is a simple tool to create lists alone or with a small group of friends. Sled is still in its very early stages, but it is usable and (we hope) fun.

Aug'2011: Shut down. Code made Open Source as Post Mile. We built Sled on an entirely open stack, using open source tools (NodeJs, MongoDb, Express, Socket.IO, Jade) and open standards (JS, HTML5, OAuth 2.0). We have relied and benefit from a vibrant community of amazing developers and we want to give something back... You can use Postmile as a back-end API server for building new list-based products (to-do apps, simple Project Management tools, Bug Tracking), as a list making tool for your friends or your company, or just as a useful example to grab code from.