Extending Checkvist

[Eric Veal]

Hello.  I have been using Checkvist for years now and love it.  I am also a developer and entrepreneur and can see VERY MANY ways to extend Checkvist for awesome purposes.  One of the challenges I have had in using the Checkvist API as a data source is I have to decide in advance at list-creation-time whether that full list will be a data source or a branch / node of it will be.  Well, I have a solution: I recently created a "Bookmarklet" that allows a user in any browser to CTRL-select one or more nodes in checkvist and then send those IDs to an arbitrary web service.  Does this kind of capability interest you all?  I can imagine all kinds of scenarios for this, such as:

• Publishing "view models" to web pages
• Publishing structured data to APIs

The list for me goes on and on and I am excited about the ideas of data and extensibility and see Checkvist as a huge enabler and driver for that but what is missing (I think) is a solid ecosystem of developers building extensions on top of Checkvist to publish / post its data to places.  I realize that Zapier does this in part but my scenario would change the workflow making Checkvist the central repository and interface and then the users selects a full list or part of it to "PUT" that data out to another service (or fully link / tie those two things together). 

Do you guys understand the application I am describing and its utility?  Please let me know if you would like to further explore this opportunity, which I think is basically boundless.  The benefits of the solution are:

• Checkvist remains as the main central repository for data since it is so fast, flexible and easy to use
• A new and basic extension allows developers to create all kinds of integrations between Checkvist data and other endpoints
• Users benefit by being allowed to set up their data in Checkvist and publish it out to these endpoints makeing "programming" way easier than it is today.

I've been working with the web as as a developer for over 20 years  now and I think it's high time for something like this.  Do you agree?

Thanks,

Eric 

Owner, AppsJack Corporation

Seattle, WA