I built Driftlatch, a focus tool for professionals dealing with immense work-home pressure. Looking for honest feedback before I push it.
Hey IH,
Driftlatch is a focus and presence tool for founders and professionals. It helps you stop carrying work pressure into home and home tension back into work. Free 2 and 4 minute assessments map where pressure is landing for you, attachment style and where to start.
I built this because pressure from work wasn't landing well at home for me. I fell into an anxious-avoidant pattern that cost me a 6 year relationship. I needed a way to build my own EQ around what I was missing. Driftlatch came out of that work, with input from practising psychologists.
It's for people trying to bring balance between both worlds and show up well in each. For people who can't afford weekly therapy, it might be a useful place to start.
What I built:
- A 2-minute Pressure Profile that maps where pressure is landing across work, recovery, home, and connection. (https://driftlatch.com/pressure-profile)
- A 4-minute Pressure EQ assessment with 8 scenarios that read how your emotional reactions hold up under stress across 6 dimensions. (https://driftlatch.com/pressure-eq)
- 220+ small "supports" across 10 packs, short psychologically informed interventions you can do in 1 to 10 minutes. The app picks one based on your current state, situation, energy and time available, in just a few taps. No setup, no streaks, no goal to achieve.
- A weekly reflection that shows you patterns in your own check-ins so you can notice things over time. Your data stays in your account.
- Moment Review: When something off happens (a reaction, a tense conversation, a missed read), you log it with a few structured prompts so the moment doesn't disappear. Over time, these become the data behind your weekly patterns to self reflect.
- Fix an Issue cards: pick a specific named issue you want to work on (intense work meetings, distance from your partner, whatever it is) and the app gives you targeted interventions for it, not general advice.
The free assessments are at the door. Beyond them is the full product, with annual and monthly access for people who want to keep going. No free tier. Driftlatch is designed as an ongoing support, not a trial app you outgrow and not a magic to solve anything in 1 day. Up to 14 days guaranteed instant refund if you don't like the product.
What I'm asking for:
Take the EQ or the Pressure Profile test and tell me whether the result felt useful.
Critique the assessments. I have friends reviewing them too, but more eyes is better.
Tell me where the product feels overbuilt or underbuilt.
On the privacy stance specifically: no third-party trackers, no ad network integrations, no message reading, no notifications, no engagement gamification. The app does store your check-ins and reflections so you can see your own patterns, but nothing is shared, sold, or used to manipulate you back into the app.
Tech stack for the curious: Next.js on Cloudflare Pages, Supabase for auth and storage, Paddle for payments. Built solo as an engineer, which has been a longer story than I planned.
Hope it reaches those who need it.
Many Thanks.
Bharath
Opening with how the pattern cost you a 6-year relationship — that's a hook most "focus tool" pitches won't risk, and it changes the trust level instantly. I'm building a small iOS memo app solo (a Captio replacement, super early — first dozens of users) and the thing I keep underestimating is exactly the work-home bleed you described: context switches eat way more energy than the actual writing. One thing I'd test on Driftlatch: don't just look at "did they complete the assessment," look at whether anyone re-takes it unprompted a week later. That second, self-initiated session is where "insightful in the moment" diverges from "actually-useful." How are you currently measuring whether the assessment changed someone's evening behavior, vs. just felt insightful while they were taking it?
This feels much deeper than a focus tool.
The strongest part is not productivity. It is pressure awareness, emotional recovery, and helping people notice patterns before work stress damages home life.
That also makes me question the name a bit. Driftlatch is distinctive, but it feels slightly mechanical for something this personal and trust-sensitive.
For this direction, a softer .com like Lyriso.com would probably carry the product better if you want it to feel more like ongoing emotional support than another focus app.