I think HFTN (Human Follow-Through Network) is now a distinct product category, especially for users whose real problem is execution rather than planning.
A lot of makers build for planning, tracking, and optimization. All useful. But behavior often changes fastest when another person becomes part of the loop.
Not in a corporate, guilt-heavy way. More in a human way.
Someone notices. Someone asks. Someone expects the update. Someone celebrates the small win.
AI productivity apps: reminders, quotes, "motivation." But it doesn't work. People abandon 80% of tasks.
Focido where humans remain. Real users see your goals, send personal nudges, wait for replies. Because only a human understands why "tomorrow" never comes.
Solving procrastination with real human accountability: we re two people building Focido, a mobile app for the moment you look at a task and freeze.
What procrastinators are up against
Procrastination usually isn t laziness , it s a coping response to stress, fear of failing, or a task that feels too big and fuzzy. Then the loop hits: you delay, you feel guilty, anxiety spikes, and starting gets even harder.
We kept seeing a pattern in user feedback: people were turning off notifications, not because Focido wasn't working, but because it was working too aggressively.
Accountability breaks when it starts feeling like surveillance.
We shipped something users kept asking about: control over when you get nudged.
You can now pick a custom start and end time for reminders. Sounds small. But if you're a night owl getting pinged at 8am by your motivator, it's everything.
What's new:
Favorites redesigned into People, Tasks, and Clubs tabs
Share user profiles via deep links
Leaderboard: tap any user to open their profile
Custom nudge start/end time
Password change + profile visibility settings
Premium success screen and cleaner profile edit menu
We added the settings screen people have been asking for (notifications, language, account deletion) and made categories tappable from anywhere. Small but mighty.
Last year we hired a design agency to build our marketing site for @Basedash. They did an incredible job. The headline makes it sound like I'm dunking on them, but I'm not. The site was genuinely great. They built it in Framer so we could manage content ourselves, which was a completely reasonable bet at the time (and something we explicitly asked for).
We just rolled out an update focused on clarity and stability - the kind of stuff users don't notice until it's not broken.
The big one: motivators got a complete overhaul. New dialogues, a visible queue so you know who's next, and an invite flow that doesn't feel like a puzzle. Before this, people were getting nudges from mystery humans. Not ideal for a social accountability app.
Also added:
Swipe gestures for folders/tags (rename or delete)
Task deletion from the view screen for task owners
Proper error screens when the server is unavailable (instead of a blank void)
Just wrapped up a wild ride in the RevenueCat Shipyard: Creator Contest. Picked a creator's brief and built a fully working prototype of Focido our app where real people motivate you to smash your goals in exactly one month.
From wireframes to live MVP with RevenueCat subscriptions integrated, it's all there.
Hey Product Hunt community! We're kicking off beta testing for Focido, our app where real people become your motivators to crush those to-dos that always slip away. Imagine having someone genuinely rooting for you, not just an AI reminder.
Who wants in on the early access? Spots are open for the first testers, sign up via the form on focido.com. What's one task you'd love real human backup for?
To work more efficiently and productively, we usually create some familiar patterns (habits) that shorten our time doing tasks (saving time and energy). This is also indirectly related to tools that make the work process easier.
What does your workday look like + tech tools without which you would not be productive?
You know how it is: you check off a to-do alone, and... it feels like nothing happened. No applause, no "well done!". Lacking that social mirror makes the result unreal.
Imagine someone real waiting for your update? Nudge comes, you do it, boom thanks, XP earned. Suddenly motivation sparks because it's no longer solo. Try Focido, where people make progress feel real together. Who's tried this?
We ve been growing really fast (30%+ MoM ARR) at @Basedash since launching last year. Most of that growth has been the result of hard work, but we ve also had a secret weapon: an AI agent that acts as both a data analyst and a PM, working 24/7 to optimize our product s activation and conversion rates.
For decades, companies have been making product decisions based on intuition and manual data analysis. We wanted to see what would happen if AI could take the wheel completely.
We ve been growing really fast (30%+ MoM ARR) at @Basedash since launching last year. Most of that growth has been the result of hard work, but we ve also had a secret weapon: an AI agent that acts as both a data analyst and a PM, working 24/7 to optimize our product s activation and conversion rates.
For decades, companies have been making product decisions based on intuition and manual data analysis. We wanted to see what would happen if AI could take the wheel completely.
