Staying committed to weekly goals
Logvana (product I've been working on for a few months) started as a productivity tool for myself. It's been a windy path (full of never used features).
Reflecting on the problems I face myself when it comes to productivity, I decided to think about the following: as an indie maker, it's remarkably difficult to stay focused and commit to daily and weekly goals.
The one set of feature I did use from the beginning since I built it into Logvana: daily log entries to plan my day, and track what I finished for that day. And I decided to add something that complements this: accountability groups.
The idea is to allow indie hackers and founders (primarily solo founders) to create small, close-knit groups of peers, advisors and other people (could be users, investors, anyone with some sort of stake in the product, or the indie maker/founder themselves). You can then share your daily planning and progress with these groups. The people receiveing these updates can set their own pace at which they receive updates.
The idea is to that this allows indie makers to get feedback, support, and motivation. But most importantly, it's meant to let them stay accountable, committed and focused on goals.
What do you think of this as a problem for makers? And what do you think of this as a solution?
As a solo entrepreneur myself the idea of using accountability to encourage progress makes a lot of sense.
One challenge I see is convincing people to join and to share their goals with others. It might be easier with a more targeted audience, like the sub-groups in Indiehackers?
I’d certainly feel more comfortable sharing my goals with others working in the same industry or using similar technology for their products.
Good luck with this!
Thanks for the thoughts!
In other conversations, I wondered if I need to clarify that I'm not working on a community, and not providing the discovery aspect. The idea is to work with people you already know - people who are interested in you as a founder or in your business (perhaps family and friends, perhaps early users, perhaps investors, etc). Logvana is just a way to make it easy to share updates with them, and do it regularly. Just out of curiosity, did that come across in the messaging, or did it sound like a community where you can discover people to connect with?
I definitely need to work on the right messaging to convince people to join. What would it take for you to start sharing updates with the people you know? And if you already share updates, what form does that take? Email, or do you chat once every month, etc?
Oh, that makes more sense, to bring a friend or peer to this tool. I didn't understand that aspect from the website.
What I tend to do is share updates to different people usually on phone calls. It's inconsistent but I'll discuss my progress with at least one peer each month.