Very interesting idea. I’ve also built my own piece of productivity software for myself since ideas out there were lacking, although it’s centered around strict accountability that I don’t think the App Store would allow.
The Paul Graham article you linked is centered around startups, so if you are using this for the possibility of creating a startup then there is one caveat: the value proposition you describe is eliminating decision fatigue by removing features irrelevant to you. But as you create stuff for more and more people, then you’ll add more and more features that are each used by your audience but to different degrees (e.g. perhaps 20% of your audience can’t live without feature 1 and the rest never use it, but a completely separate 30% of users love features 2 but no one else uses it). Eventually your original value proposition will erode and it will be similar to other solutions. But if you aren’t doing this for a startup, then you can ignore this.
Very interesting idea. I’ve also built my own piece of productivity software for myself since ideas out there were lacking, although it’s centered around strict accountability that I don’t think the App Store would allow.
The Paul Graham article you linked is centered around startups, so if you are using this for the possibility of creating a startup then there is one caveat: the value proposition you describe is eliminating decision fatigue by removing features irrelevant to you. But as you create stuff for more and more people, then you’ll add more and more features that are each used by your audience but to different degrees (e.g. perhaps 20% of your audience can’t live without feature 1 and the rest never use it, but a completely separate 30% of users love features 2 but no one else uses it). Eventually your original value proposition will erode and it will be similar to other solutions. But if you aren’t doing this for a startup, then you can ignore this.