Focus Buddy (YC S24)

Name: Focus Buddy (YC S24)
Rating: 5.0 (3 reviews)

AI productivity co-pilot

5.0•3 reviews•

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AI productivity co-pilot

5.0•3 reviews•

676 followers

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Your AI productivity co-pilot that stays on calls with you while working to help you get more done! Focus Buddy includes: • Seamless Voice First Todo List • 24/7 Focus Coach for accountability • Personalised weekly insights into your productivity.

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Launch tags:Productivity•Task Management•Artificial Intelligence

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LenzIndependent, multi-model fact-checking API for AI workflows

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Focus Buddy (YC S24)

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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 We're thrilled to introduce FocusBuddy.ai - your AI co-pilot for getting more done! 🚀💪 🧠 As a productivity geek and someone with ADHD, my co-founder and I created FocusBuddy to be the ultimate productivity companion we've always dreamed of. Here's how FocusBuddy works: • 🎯 Work on the right thing at the right time: As you co-work with the AI, it learns what you're working on, what's left, and what's done. It automatically keeps your to-do list up-to-date, ensuring you never miss a high-priority task. • 🤝 Check-ins that hold you accountable: Our coach checks in while you work, helping you talk through concerns, address perfectionism, and overcome barriers to getting started. • 📈 Insights into how you work: By being there as you work, the AI learns your burnout patterns, distractions, time estimation errors, and peak productivity times. It shares these insights weekly, with real-time coaching coming soon! 🌟 Our vision? We want to build an AI co-pilot that truly understands your tasks and helps you become more productive over time. It's not just about tracking tasks – it's about guiding you to hit more of your own goals much sooner. We want to make productivity improvement a tangible, measurable journey, like Strava does for running. By delivering insights at the right moment while you're working, we aim to help you make real progress in becoming more productive across all aspects of your work life. 🔧 How to use FocusBuddy: 1. Hop on focusbuddy.ai when you're ready to work 2. Start a coworking call with your AI buddy 3. Collaborate on task breakdowns, updates, and accountability 4. Get personalized insights to level up your productivity game 💻 Users are loving FocusBuddy for: • Coding sessions with fixed timeboxes • Event planning without overlooking details • Essay writing without overthinking • And so much more! 🙏 A huge thank you to everyone who's helped shape FocusBuddy. We've come a long way from a simple phone call to a full-fledged desktop co-pilot, all thanks to your invaluable feedback. We're beyond excited to hear what the Product Hunt community thinks! Let's make productivity fun, measurable, and achievable together. 🎉 Questions? Ideas? We're all ears! Drop a comment below or reach out directly. Let's revolutionize the way we work! 💼✨ #ProductivityRevolution #AIAssistant #FocusBuddy

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2yr ago

@adnan_sherif1 Very interesting. I would be very interested in using this, if this had a Notion integration. Then I could use my existing task system instead of managing them on Focus buddy.

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2yr ago

Focus Buddy (YC S24)

Maker

@adnan_sherif1 @souravghosh Hey Sourav, yeah we have adding integrations on our backlog. In the meantime, what you can do is just call Copy (in a very unformatted way, just copy all of your tasks). If you go to our website, right above your to-do list, you'll see a place where you can paste completely unstructured text and it can structure it and turn it into your to-do list. So feel free to try that.

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2yr ago

wow @adnan_sherif1 congratualtions on the launch, so you mean I actually do not have to write my todo list in my Mac's note app any more? does it integrates with other apps?

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2yr ago

Focus Buddy (YC S24)

Maker

@adnan_sherif1 @bilalasif currently it doesn't integrate with other things, but we made it really easy to bring over tasks. If you just copy all your tasks from your notes app and go to Focus Buddy, you'll see a box right above your to-do list that says "Paste any data here". You can paste extremely unstructured tasks and we'll structure them and add them to your to-do list using AI.

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2yr ago

Memoir

Super interesting concept - will definitely have to try out the co-working setup. Do you plan to personalize the experience (e.g. tone of voice, speech style, etc.)?

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2yr ago

Focus Buddy (YC S24)

Maker

@bathientran Hey Ba Thien! Yeah one of the features we'll likely add by end of year is coach personalities. So you can choose between someone that sounds, feels and coaches like: David Goggins (direct, inspirational) , or Marie Forleo (softer, constructive), etc

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2yr ago

@yashmr a part of me wants a Michael Scott from the US Office

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2yr ago

Looks interesting, especially that it analyses your burnout patterns etc. Can it give you a summary of that after a while?

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2yr ago

Focus Buddy (YC S24)

Maker

@david_patrykowski yep, that's the idea. We want to hit you with super interesting insights every week about how you work: - How different amounts of coffee consumption affect your workingness - How different amounts of sleep affect your work - How different TV shows you're watching affect your work How the different kinds of work you're doing is affecting your overall productivity levels. We want to go super deep into what's working and what's not working for you and then send you those insights. Eventually, we'll have the coach actually act on them for you while you're working.

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2yr ago

this is amazing, and one step closer to my dream AI assistant tool, which is to have an LLM w RAG/trained on my "life docs" (my goals, my str/weaknesses, my principles, my workflows, my schedule, my decision-making strategies); I've been building out this master doc for Claude Projects, CustomGPT, and am still testing more (MindPal, Epsilla, Taskade etc) with the goal of first establishing a very-context-aware/personalized assistant, then toward more agenic things like tasks, todos. So when I saw your demo, it was like super exciting to see. Especially to see the AI able to add tasks in real-time. my questions are: 1. do you plan on allowing users to train their AI's with custom instructions and/or upload reference docs? So that the AI can do what customGPT or Notion AI can do now by surfacing the docs? (granted notion AI doesn't allow custom instructions) 2. are y'all plan on building a platform to serve as a hub, like Notion as aforementioned, and/or adding features to the task list, sort of like Taskade? 3. and if not / if you think you'll focus more narrowly on being an effective AI voice interface, would the plan be to allow a public API, or IFTTT, or connections to other apps either to read from (notion, Google drive), or write to (Todoist, Tick Tick, Taskade etc)? 4. pricing model? pardon the lengthy message. while I'm a daily PH checked, I don't usually comment on launches. but this product is something that's super exciting to me.

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2yr ago

Oh, love all the added functionality! You’ve come such a long way in the past few months. Excited to see how this keeps evolving! And will definitely have to check out new desktop version for writing

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2yr ago

Focus Buddy (YC S24)

Maker

Glad you have enjoyed Focus Buddy @anna_nevmerzhytska! You can now optionally have a movable popup window that allows you two to chat or speak with focus buddy without leaving your work environment!

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2yr ago

Focus Buddy (YC S24)

Maker

@anna_nevmerzhytska Thanks Anna! The desktop version has definitely been an outcome of feedback from people like you

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2yr ago

Marlee

Wow Adnan! Great product! Is the best way to try it out via an app on mobile, or on desktop, or via browser etc - does it sync across all devices etc? I write so many to do lists & manually add everything to my calendar multiple times/day (my ADHD brain struggles to remember everything & be punctual!) so this is exciting tech! What's the pricing model?

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2yr ago

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