Sharing and Collaboration is here - early alpha

We tried to hide this, but some of you might have already seen parts of this with the inadvertent leaks :slight_smile:

You can now share a list with your network, one-on-one or to many, and collaborate on it. This functionality has been in the making for a long time, with sync as the foundation.

Collaboration is near real-time, and you should see changes almost immediately. We had to go through a lot of hoops to make sure this works seamlessly offline, online, and with intermittent connections.

Sharing is built to be as frictionless as possible, but has to be initiated from mobile, either on iOS or Android. In fact, we designed it, so you don’t even need to log in to edit a list if you get a shared link. In a world of coffee shops that ask you to download an app, create an account, and then use a credit card to buy something, we are against the grain.

We also want to grow this in a controlled way and fix bugs before it expands to the whole user base. So the feature isn’t available to everyone, only to people who have accepted a shared list. Once you open it on your iPhone or Android phone, you can share any list with anyone else. That means you are the first to get this feature.

Here’s the kicker: if you share a list with a particular theme+sounds+fonts combo, be it pro or free, everybody who’s using that shared list will inherit that theme for that particular list.

A lot of work went into ensuring a list can be edited on the web without needing an account or creating friction to download the app.

We have been dogfooding this internally for quite a while. Its been indispensable for my wife and me to do our grocery runs, Costco list, etc. The notifications work so well that when I leave home, she just starts adding to the list, and by the time I reach Costco, I get the notifications, and my muscle memory has grown into waiting for it.

To enable this feature, go to the app store and manually update to 2.7.3 or later. Once updated, click the link below to join.

Sharing now works on both iOS and Android.

Let us know how you feel.

This is Brilliant!!!

Insane work team!! :face_exhaling::face_exhaling: