Gift List It – A Christmas list management tool

Gift List It is a site Adam Douglass and I have maintained for a few years now, but this year we took it a bit more mainstream and launched it on a domain. Previously it was just called “The Adam-D.com Christmas list.” That isn’t too sexy, but Gift List It is pretty sexy to me.

I’ve had a lot of fun working on it this year. Unfortunately, I think most of our work was a little too late to get people using it again this year. We’ll see. I think for our core group of friends and family it will be used, but that’s about it. Maybe next year with some marketing strategy we’ll be able to take this thing a bit more mainstream.

Working on this really makes me want to focus a bit more on consumer oriented web applications. While time consuming, they’re downright fun.

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Published:: 12.10.06 / 12pm

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I have three passions: Dancing, climbing, and technology.

I am a Lindy Hopper, a style of dance that began in the early 1920’s. I dance with Charm City Swing, Baltimore’s premier swing dancing venue. You will find me EVERY Monday night on the dance floor.

I live to climb things. It took me 25 years to figure this out but I can’t imagine life without it. I primarily enjoy bouldering — For me, the lack of ropes and freedom take bouldering to purest level of climbing.

I founded and work at Fusion Bay, a web application development firm with Adam Douglass. We program cool things for clients and ourselves, like the popular Wordabble iPhone application and GiftListIt.

Daddio 12.11.06 / 1pm

I love using GiftListIt, Jason. It’s a brilliant idea and very well executed. Fun to use, and useful as hell!

Christopher M. 12.11.06 / 8pm

GiftListIt is a fun and great webapp which you and Adam have put together. It builds on some of the great features of the old app and adds a lot of new and rich ones. Each day the site seems to evolve with new functionality. The â€œRecent giftsâ€ and the yellow mouse-over feature, and new intro are cool.

Jason Lancaster 12.12.06 / 4pm

Thanks for the comments guys. If you really like it that much, pass it on to your friends and family. The only way it will ever grow is you help pass it on. If for some reason you don’t like it and you’re reading this, let me know why and I’ll take it into consideration and perhaps even fix what is bugging you.

Scott 12.19.06 / 4pm

I’m sure you’ve thought about this, but it would be a great tool for any occasion!… birthdays to weddings. As the seasons/months come and go, keep up the look to mirror the current (ie how Google changes thier image from day to day). Anyhow just a thought i’d pass along.

Jason Lancaster

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