Does this platform work? Guess we will find out.
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Hey everyone, I’m Ben. I run two businesses, and somewhere between meetings, driving, client work, and everyday life, I’m constantly having ideas or remembering things I need to do.
Writing something down was never really the problem. The problem was what happened afterward.
My notes ended up scattered across different apps, transcripts, documents, and random lists. Even when an AI tool cleaned up or summarized a recording, I was usually left with another large block of text that I still had to title, sort, file, and remember how to find later.
So I started building Swistly.
Swistly lets you speak or type a quick thought, record a longer meeting, or upload an existing file. The AI cleans it up, recognizes whether it contains a note, task, list, idea, reminder, or meeting, and organizes it into folders and subfolders.
If it puts something in the wrong place, you can move it. Those corrections help it learn how you prefer to organize your information.
The goal is simple: get the thought out of your head while it’s fresh and trust that you’ll be able to find and use it later.
Swistly is now available on iPhone and Android. It’s still early, and I’m actively improving the positioning, onboarding, organization, and overall experience based on real feedback.
I’d especially appreciate feedback on:
Whether the value is immediately clear
Where the onboarding feels confusing
Whether the automatic organization feels useful
What would need to improve for you to use it regularly
You can see it under my launched apps
I’m happy to answer questions about the product, how I built it, or what I’ve learned trying to launch it while running two other businesses.
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Ben, running two businesses while trying to keep notes organized is its own kind of tax, the thought is fine the moment you capture it, the trouble starts three weeks later when you cannot remember which app or folder it went into. I built FounderFlow after running a software company, a care home, and a cafe at once, and the part that wore me down was never the messy notes, it was not knowing which of the businesses actually needed me on a given morning. Genuinely curious, between your two businesses, is there ever a day you can tell in advance which one is going to need you more, or does it always ambush you?
Ben, having an actual system, sitting down every morning and reviewing priorities across two businesses, is more discipline than most people manage. What I am curious about is whether that morning review ever catches something a day late, a thing that already needed attention yesterday, or does the daily cadence mean you are always ahead of it?
@ben_weisman1 Being almost always ahead of it after a full daily review is rare, most people claim that and then think of the exception a beat too late. That "almost" is the interesting part to me. On the days it does not hold, what usually slips through, is it a specific type of thing, a message instead of a task, a personal commitment instead of a business one, or does it come from somewhere different each time?
This is similar to what I'm doing. But we've got a social twist.
@ben_weisman1 Hey, Ben. What's your X?