WeeklyCheckins: Feedback on my accountability tool
Hey friends. So I've been doing these weekly check-in phone calls with an entrepreneur friend and my younger sister over the last few months. We discuss our past week and what we've accomplished, and set a few goals for the coming week. I've found these calls to be quite helpful in keeping me on track and motivated.
I decided to write a quick app to help track the goals I set and the check-ins I have with my friends. It's not very feature rich yet but gets the job done. The basic idea is that each week, you set 3-4 goals and invite a friend to check-in with you. Once they confirm a time and add their own goals, you both receive a calendar invite with a Zoom link.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on it and see if this is something you'd use and/or potentially pay for.
You can see the site here: https://weeklycheckins.com/
Some ideas I have for it going forward:
- helping you find a check-in partner automatically
- some kind of post-check-in feedback/survey
- access to professional coaches
I absolutely love the idea! I've felt like something like this would be useful for a long time and to see someone else just, you know, build it is kinda awesome. I'll sign up and try and find someone to use this with to give more feedback based on actually using it, but here's some quick feedback on your landing page:
While I think that giving people a "taste" of the (web) app on the initial landing page is a great idea, the way you've implemented it looks mighty confusing! The UI of the app draws all the attention and leaves you confused as to what exactly you're looking at. Is this the actual app, is this some demo.... did I end up on some other user's page by accident?\
Sure, there's a textbox above it that explains it.... do I have to mention how no one really reads those? The UI draws all the attention and that leads to confusion on a landing page.
Beyond that, I'm super excited to actually try this idea of an accountability buddy out for real now!
@svenewers that is really great feedback, especially about the landing page! I went back and forth between the demo/live-UI one that is up now and a more traditional landing page. Maybe it's better to have the traditional one that links to a demo instead of dropping you right into one.
Please do let me know how it goes and if you need a check-in buddy, you're welcome to add me (just search for @monji). Thanks again for the feedback!
I think this is an awesome idea, and one I've actually considered doing myself! I've done something similar via text/call before, and have called these partners "accountabili-buddies" -- which I think is a reference made in a TV show, but I can't remember which one, maybe you can use it!
I could see myself using this, and I think having things like email reminders would be a nice feature in addition to the ones you mentioned.
Thanks for the feedback @grahambewley! I hadn't heard of the term "accountabilibuddies" before -- according to Urban Dictionary it's from South Park! :)
I agree about email reminders -- I have a few basic ones setup, ie email sent when you invite someone, email when your partner confirms, etc -- but having a few more would be nice. For starters, I personally would like an email reminder at the start of each week to add my goals.
I guess this didn't go anywhere. I'm looking to find some people to have check ins with, though. Can you help with that?