# FocusOne — Reddit Posts Generated: 2026-04-25 Product: FocusOne ($8/mo, 14-day trial) Target: Adults with ADHD who can't start tasks despite knowing what to do --- ## POST 1 — r/ADHD **Type:** 痛点提问帖 (no product mention) **Strategy:** 以同行身份问痛点，引发真实 ADHD 用户开口，再 DM 邀请 beta --- **Title:** anyone else know exactly what they need to do but still can't make themselves start? **Body:** Not fishing for tips here. Genuinely curious if other people experience this the same way. I'll have a list with maybe 6 things on it. I know what they are. I know which ones matter. I have time. And then I just... sit there. Sometimes I'll spend an hour rearranging the list, color-coding it, moving things between apps. Doing everything except the actual work. The part that gets me most is what happens when the day falls apart mid-way. Once one thing derails, I lose the whole thread. I can't figure out what to salvage, so I end up salvaging nothing. I've tried timers. I've tried body doubling. I've tried the two-minute rule. Some of it helps with the focus part. None of it helps with the "staring at the list deciding what to do first" part. What do you do for that specific step? The decision-to-start problem, not the staying-focused-once-you're-in problem? **First comment:** The mid-day collapse is the worst version of it for me. The morning schedule breaks, and somehow my brain treats that as permission to write off the rest of the day. Does anyone have an actual method for the "it's 2pm and everything went sideways" moment? --- **DM Template (for users who share similar pain):** > Hey - I saw your comment about [specific thing they said about task paralysis / day collapse]. That exactly matches what I've been struggling with. > > I've been quietly building something that tries to address this specific problem - a tool that shows you one task at a time and lets you hit a "rescue me" button when the day has already gone sideways. > > Would you be up for a quick 15-minute chat? No pitch, just want to understand if what I built is actually useful. Happy to give you free access in exchange. --- ## POST 2 — r/productivity **Type:** 痛点/问题帖，不提产品 **Strategy:** 引发对现有工具痛点的讨论，观察回复，再 DM 有共鸣者 --- **Title:** why are task managers so bad at telling you what to do right now? **Body:** I've used Todoist, Things, TickTick, Notion, and a few others. They're all genuinely good at one thing: storing tasks. Where they all fall down is the question I actually have when I sit down to work: what should I do right now, given that I have 40 minutes, I'm tired, and three things were already overdue yesterday? Every single one of them dumps the full list and makes you do all the mental math. If your brain handles that fine, great. But a lot of people - not just ADHD folks - hit a wall right there. The decision cost of picking a task is sometimes higher than the task itself. The apps that try to solve this (Motion, Reclaim, etc.) tend to require full calendar integration and cost $30+/month. Seems like a weird gap. Curious what people actually do here. Do you have a system you run manually? Is there something I've missed? **First comment:** The interesting edge case is when the day is already derailed. You had a plan, something happened, now you have 90 minutes left and no idea what to prioritize. That's when I notice most productivity systems just... stop being useful. --- **DM Template (for users who express frustration with existing tools):** > Hey - noticed your comment about [specific pain they mentioned]. I've been working on something that tries to solve exactly that gap. > > It's called FocusOne - shows you one task at a time based on your current energy and available time. There's also a "rescue me" mode for when the day has already gone sideways. > > No sales pitch. Would you be open to trying it for a week and telling me if it's actually useful? I'll give you free access. --- ## POST 3 — r/SideProject **Type:** Builder 故事帖（有 karma 才发） **Strategy:** 分享真实构建经历，直接邀请 beta，提产品名 --- **Title:** I built a task manager that only shows you one thing at a time - here's what two weeks taught me **Body:** Background: I have ADHD. I've spent years building software. Eventually those two things ran into each other. The specific problem I kept hitting: I'd open Todoist, see 40 tasks, spend 20 minutes deciding what to work on, then give up. The list itself was the problem - too much to parse when your brain is already running on empty. So I built something that shows one task. That's it. One card with the thing you should do right now, picked based on what's overdue, what fits your current energy, and how much time you actually have. A few things I learned building it: The single-task view works better than I expected. The reduction in visible options genuinely reduces the freeze response for me. Whether that generalizes is what I'm trying to find out. The "break it down" button ended up being more useful than the prioritization. If a task feels too big to start, one click breaks it into three micro-steps. That's where people seem to get unstuck. The hardest thing to build was "day recovery." I called it "Rescue Me" - you hit it when your plan has already collapsed, it asks how much time you have left, and it reprioritizes accordingly. Getting the UX right on something you use at your most frustrated moment is tricky. Pricing is $8/month with a 14-day free trial. Zero data on conversion yet. The product is called FocusOne. Web only right now. If you have ADHD and you're drowning in your task list, I'd genuinely appreciate you taking a look and telling me what's broken. DM me. What did you build to scratch your own itch that you weren't sure anyone else actually needed? **First comment:** Stack is Next.js + Supabase + Todoist API + gpt-4o-mini for the breakdown feature. Happy to go into any of the technical decisions - the Todoist OAuth flow was straightforward, the tricky part was the recommendation algorithm (how do you weigh "overdue" against "low friction" against "matches current energy level"?). --- **DM Template (for users who show interest or ask questions):** > Hey - thanks for the question/comment about [specific thing]. > > If you want to try it out, I'm giving free beta access to the first few people who are willing to give me real feedback. No catch - I just want to know if it's actually useful for people who aren't me. > > If you're up for it, [link] and just reach out if anything feels off. --- ## PUBLISHING NOTES **Order of operations:** 1. Post r/ADHD 痛点帖 first (no product mention, build karma + find real users) 2. Wait 3-5 days, observe replies, DM people with shared pain 3. Post r/productivity (no product mention, expand audience) 4. Once account has 50+ karma from engagement: post r/SideProject with full builder story **Subreddits to monitor after posting:** - r/ADHD, r/ADHDers (both have ~1M+ members) - r/productivity (6M+ members, but more skeptical) - r/SideProject (280k members, builder-friendly) - r/adhd_programmers (smaller, but high-signal) **Do NOT post all three on the same day.** Reddit will flag it as spam.