Site: 43 Things

by Matt on 17 February 2010

43things.com The worlds largest goal-setting community, apparently. Its like a big social to-do list. So what are you doing next?

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Pros

Have you ever had an absolutely brilliant idea, which you go and tell everyone about and everyone agrees is brilliant? They are telling you that yes, you must make this happen, because they can’t believe it hasn’t been done already? Then someone points out that it has and it’s called 43 Things?

Well, its one way to discover a website. So I’ll be reviewing it from the point of view of how I would have done it. In fact, scarily, it is almost exactly how I’d planned it (in my head):

It’s like Twitter in that the first thing you see is a box asking what you want to do next. You can enter things and start building your list without having to login. You can like (or cheer) other peoples goals. It can work out which goals are the same despite spelling differences etc. You can build a whole community around the thing.

And so much more. Its all here. And it’s probably better than I would have been able to do.

Cons

The name isn’t great. I can imagine a lot of people (who are after a ‘to-do list’ site) thinking, “that’s a bit specific”.

It doesn’t really have much in the way of visual style. The only thing it reminds me of is Yahoo answers. So a little bit old school. It could be given a bit more web 2.0 visual loving or at least a style of its own.

There is a nice idea around getting people to explain how they achieved something but most of the entries I’ve read are pretty wanky and of no use to anyone. Good idea, coulda been executed better to prevent the waffle.

And they are totally missing a trick in that it could make a great dating site.

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