I stole agile from teams and rebuilt it for a team of one

I'm Brian, solo founder. I've shipped products alone for a while now, and I kept running into the same gap: every task tool with real methodology behind it assumes a team exists to run it. Every tool built for one person strips the methodology out entirely.

Team PM tools (Jira, Asana, ClickUp, Monday) actually encode good ideas: WIP limits, prioritization frameworks, structured reviews. But they wrap all of it in ceremony that only makes sense with other people in the room, standups, sprint planning, velocity charts, OKR cascades. Strip the audience out and it's theater.

Personal task apps (Todoist, Things, Apple Reminders) go the other way. They give you a list and nothing else. Nothing caps how much you start. Nothing ages a task you've been avoiding. Nothing forces you to cut. For a solo builder, that's not freedom, it's how you end up with 400 open tasks and no idea what's actually next.

I wanted the discipline without the audience. So I went back to the actual sources, Vacanti's Kanban theory, Benson and DeMaria Barry's Personal Kanban, Shape Up, the goal-setting research behind "three things, not thirty", and kept only what survives when you cut the team out: WIP limits, ruthless prioritization, visible task aging, a weekly review built around cutting instead of grooming. Everything that only exists to coordinate other people (sprints, burndowns, velocity, standups) got cut. I wrote the whole argument up as a design thesis if anyone wants the long version: getzoro.app/agile-for-one/

Zoro is the implementation. A kanban board for one person, iPhone, Mac and Web - 3 platforms. Three priorities (P1 to P3), S/M/L effort sizing, a light WIP limit so starting something new means finishing or cutting something first, tasks that visibly age so nothing hides. No teams, no assignees, no per-seat pricing, no account, local-first with sync through your own iCloud.

It's live on the App Store now. Free tier is unlimited tasks and projects with iCloud sync. Pro is $2.99/month, $19.99/year, or $59.99 once ($29.99 for the first month or two of launch), and adds a weekly-review insight engine, subtasks, and custom statuses.

Question for builders here: what did you steal from team process that actually survived contact with an audience of one? And what have you caught yourself faking, a personal "sprint review" with nobody else in the room?