Last summer we struggled to find a visual designer up to the challenge of designing the user interface that is now blist. Doting parents ask their kids to stand up tall against the pantry door so they can mark off how the kids have grown. Over the years the marks blend and blur into smiles of affirmation. Doting software companies take screen shots to chronicle how the baby has grown. I was stumbling around the network the other day and found the folder screen shot history of blist as a baby. It’s too funny not to share.

Here’s what blist looks like now:

And here’s what blist looked like back then:

Sometimes you have to stop and look back to see how far you’ve come. Not a bad growth spurt all and all, but we’ve still got a lot of growth ahead.