I stopped trying to fix my procrastination and built a tool to make it easier to start
The product is Just One Step (justonestep.app).
You give it something you've been putting off, it gives you one specific action — as small as possible. Just one thing that can sometimes lead to more. No streaks. No habit tracking. Deliberately minimal.
I built it for people who hit an invisible wall, according to ADHD research — where beginning feels hard. But honestly, you don't need an ADHD diagnosis to know that feeling.
After being laid off last week I suddenly had a lot more time, so I've been here learning what I can, reading posts, leaving comments, trying to say something useful rather than just announcing I exist.
I'm still looking for testers. If you've ever been stuck on something you knew you needed to do — not because it was hard, but because you couldn't start — Just One Step might be worth trying.
justonestep.app
Happy to answer anything about the product, the build, or what deciding to back yourself actually feels like.
Accepting the constraint and designing around it instead of fighting it - that's good product thinking. The 'just make it easier to start' insight is way more actionable than 'fix the willpower problem.'
For solopreneurs this hits differently. The biggest starting friction isn't laziness - it's the cognitive load of not knowing what the most important thing is. When your CRM, projects, and weekly goals are all in different places, every work session starts with a 15-minute re-orientation tax.
Building a Solopreneur Notion OS for exactly this - a linked system where opening your dashboard shows you exactly what needs attention across clients, projects, and revenue. Reduces the friction of starting because the context is already there. What starting friction patterns are you seeing in your users?
1This is a clean idea because you’re not trying to “solve productivity” in the usual overloaded way. The strongest part is the restraint: no streaks, no dashboards, no habit system, just reducing the emotional weight of starting.
I’d lean even harder into that. “Just One Step” is not really a task app. It is more like a starting aid for people who freeze before action. That makes it feel more personal and useful than another productivity tool, especially for ADHD-adjacent users, burnout, anxiety, or people coming back from a rough patch.
One thing I’d watch is the name. Just One Step explains the mechanism well, but if this grows into a broader emotional-starting-support product, Lyriso.com could carry a softer wellness/support brand better than a phrase-based app name.