Since the first launch a month ago, I ve been shipping like crazy based on your feedback. Today, FocusRoom 3.0 is live, and it finally feels like the full cockpit I had in mind.
Here s what s new:
App Blocking Turn on Airplane Mode for your brain . Block TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and more while you re in a mission, then automatically unblock when you re done.
New Cockpit View A cleaner, more cinematic space map that makes every focus session feel like a real trip, not just a timer.
Smarter Daily Reminders Set a precise time to get a gentle nudge to start your mission, using an iOS style time picker and preview.
Better Analytics Clearer distance traveled, streaks and Focus Health so you can actually see your consistency over time.
Lots of polish Smoother sessions, fewer bugs, and a calmer overall flow.
If you tried FocusRoom at launch, I d love for you to take 3.0 for a spin and tell me what still feels rough, confusing, or missing. And if you re new here, I m especially curious: does this version make you want to sit down and focus?
I learned this the hard way after forgetting 90% of the words I spent months studying.
Here's the thing: your brain doesn't store information just because you've seen it. Highlighting words, writing them down once, even using them in a sentence - none of that guarantees retention.
Emotions are a fundamental part of being human, and anger is often the hardest one to manage.
Have you ever been yelled at simply because someone else couldn t control their emotions? In those moments, how do we usually respond? I choose silence not because I m weak or defeated, but because I understand that they are projecting their emotions onto me. Many problems could be resolved if we learned how to regulate anger more mindfully.
Hot off the press! OSS AI coding assistant @Kilo Code just announced a $8 Million raise in seed funding.
@scobreit wrote in their blog announcement:
This funding accelerates our roadmap: smarter multi-agent collaboration, enterprise-grade tooling for technical leaders, and a feature set that continues to accelerate the AI flywheel for development teams using Kilo.
Most developers who work with calendars eventually hit the same strange bug. Someone subscribes to your ICS feed. Everything looks fine. Then a day or two later nothing updates. Events go missing. Times drift. Outlook users swear the feed is frozen. Google polls whenever it feels like it. Apple refreshes until it doesn t.
You debug your code. You check the ICS. You regenerate the file. You wonder if you broke SEQUENCE again.
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Hey everyone, sharing a small but meaningful milestone.
BeamUp finally got its first paid user, 5 months after launch. What made this really special is that the user came in organically, started using BeamUp with Google Drive, and upgraded on their own, without me reaching out or changing any messaging beforehand.
BeamUp is a no-code upload portal that lets people receive large files directly into their cloud storage, no servers, no backend, no retention.
Here s what surprised me: Even though someone understood BeamUp well enough to upgrade, I realized many visitors weren t actually understanding the core value from the landing page. The concept is simple once it clicks, but unfamiliar at first glance.
There s still a lot of attention on flashy categories: AI agents, creator tools, social apps. At the same time, you keep hearing quiet stories about people building solid, calm businesses around very unsexy problems: invoicing for a niche industry, compliance workflows, scheduling in weird contexts, back-office tools nobody outside the niche has heard of.
I m curious whether your view of what s worth building has changed over the last few years. Would you be excited to build something deeply boring if the demand and willingness to pay were obvious? Or do you still feel pulled towards more visible, consumer-facing or hyped spaces? And for those already in boring niches, how has that choice played out in terms of users, stress and revenue?