
Heliostat.dev
Shape Up for the solo developer
This includes improved clustering on the graph view. Better selection of notes visually to form new pitches from them automatically. And, finally just a overall more pleasant experience.
Coming up is connecting to existing project management tools and allow you to import projects and tasks from there so they can be managed as Pitches and Scopes. This should allow you to work with existing tools and experience the flow that Heliostat is designed for.
Sean
Over the past few months I've been taking, what I think are, the best ideas from Shape Up and tailoring them to a solo developer. I've enjoyed using Shape Up on a team basis and could not find a good way to do something similar to manage my workload.
What started as just a simple way to manually track tasks quickly moved to tracking Github commits/merges/PRs and then finally with the recent addition of the mind map. All of these portions easily integrate with each other. For example, you can go from your mind map to a new Pitch all within the same screen. Then, you can use a tasteful amount of AI to act as a broader team to bounce ideas against, run a retro by yourself, and also to make sure your Pitches are well written.
Over these past few months I've organized all of my projects and it's been a huge lift to my productivity and I hope others can as well!
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I enjoy using the Shape Up methodology, but it doesn't work very well in a solo-dev setup. So, I built a tool to pull in the ideas I like from Shape Up and build them out for my work flow.

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