Name: Focusmate
Rating: 4.92 (143 reviews)

Focusmate changes the way you work by partnering you with an accountability partner for a live, virtual coworking session that will keep you on task.

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Love love LOVE Focusmate! I've been using it for 18 weeks and am averaging 26.4 sessions per week. Wooo! Feature idea/request #3: Give users the ability to book a session with a specific user *when that other user doesn't already have a session scheduled.* And doing so could trigger a tentative calendar invite to the invited partner, which they could accept or decline. For example, one of my favorites is named Matt; if he and I are in a session right now and agree "hey, this was great; wanna work together the same time tomorrow?", within Focusmate's current build, I would have to book a session first, then give Matt the green light to go in and book that session. But it would be super useful if I could just go ahead and book a session for both of us, even if the session is tentative by default for Matt.

I have now logged more than 5,000 sessions on Focusmate, and it's absolutely helped my business grow. It's helped me work with more joyful productivity :) The upcoming features list are well prioritized!

I have suggested this previously to the team. Sometimes life happens. After a no-show to a scheduled session, I'd love to send a apology message to the person I was matched with.

Others have said the same, but Focusmate is the most effective productivity tool I've ever used. Someone wrote that the reviews look fake because they're all so positive, and all that tells me is that they've never tried it. I have ADHD but can't take Adderall ( medical reasons) — I honestly think Focusmate works just as well. I'm actually between sessions right now! I'm late submitting a review, and I would frankly be fine if Focusmate *never* introduced another feature—that's just how effective it is and I think the simplicity is important—but with that said the list of planned features looks great. I read through other reviews and saw some nice ideas: - Language preferences (select ALL languages you are comfortable speaking with partners), to accommodate more international users. For example, I could comfortably speak French with a partner, but there's no easy way for them to know / find me / match with me based on that. - Work types: I know this is planned for Matching 2.0; I generally don't care what the other person is doing (I actually like the different things we can be doing "together"), so per another suggestion, I would like an available "doesn't matter" preference for what my partner does. I'd also like to be able to specify my work type *by session* so my partners get a heads up and can snooze me if they want. - Session title history: gCal integration would of course be nice to have, but I would almost rather have the ability to access from the dashboard my full history of sessions WITH TITLES—I'd definitely title my sessions more often if I knew I could find them later. + IF it makes sense to add a "goal complete" check-off feature someplace, I would want to be able to view all my previous sessions, with their titles (per previous bullet) + whether I checked off my goals. (Can totally live without this—I still use a paper to-do list.) - Profile access in session: As someone else mentioned, it would be nice to have one-click access to a partner's profile from within a session (though I'm able to get to it in a session by opening the calendar in a new tab, so it's not a huge deal). - Sessions graph: I like seeing my weekly streak but I'd love to see my sessions charted in a bar chart or line graph (set to private, or able to be made private) showing how many sessions I did per day. - Mini-snooze from dashboard: For if I just want to snooze someone for one session / up to 75 minutes ETA: - Adjust timing of sessions: it would be great to be able to drag a session up/down in the calendar to change timing, rather than having to cancel/rebook—e.g., if it turns out I'm available 15 minutes earlier than I had scheduled, or if I find I need to bump a session. Congrats to Taylor & the Focusmate team for making this simple idea a deeply effective reality and building a genuine community around it. I can't think you enough. I lowkey dread the day some huge corporation buys/ruins this incredible product, but I hope you all are able to retire young. :)

In the last two years, using Focusmate has significantly change my work and life in very positive way. It has allowed me to get in to better habit, much better focused at work (needless to say), better structured routine throughout the day, and after co-working with up to 20 people a day, I am now part of a community full of friendly and like-minded individual - everyday we get on with life & work, one session a time :)

I've been a user since mid-2020. I can't say enough good things about the founders, price, and my productivity increase. 5/5! Give it a shot.

Literally my #1 productivity tool--and I love getting to meet people from all around the world! It was awesome when it was bare bones but the features they've added over the past year have made it that much more fun and easy to use. I'll be with them for life I'm sure! :D

Thanks for the wonderful job you folks have done with so little. I want to reiterate that 1) a well-executed Matching Preferences 2.0 would bring the Focus back into Focusmate - a commitment to stay at desk with mic-on means I'm less likely to get up and get a coffee or something and stick to the task unless absolutely necessary. 2) Rematching 2.0 and Last Minute Booking would incentivize me to join a session ahead of time, get into the zone, make a plan for the session, possibly with partner 3) sometimes, I carry a to-do item from the chat of the last session into the next one- It would be great if to do items could be checked off as suggested by others and the unchecked items carried forward into next session. Again, I find it truly amazing that you folks manage to provide the range of features that you do at this price point - and keeping prices low increases the liquidity of random partners. I would prefer fewer features at a low cost, if the alternative is a higher price that would shrink the community and make it harder to get matched at short notice.

Such an awesome tool. Body double with anyone, any time, any where in the world to get things done.

I LOVE FocusMate SOO much!!! Thank you so much for posting and asking for your feedback :) It's really nice and just another reason why you all are amazing. First, I love the Favorites and I really like the blurbs that ask us to welcome "Newbies" to Focusmate! Two features that I'm really looking forward to (and would DEFINITELY improve my experience) are: - Rematching 2.0 — don’t lose your session even if your partner cancels at the last second - Last Minute Booking — find a match even if you book last minute by being added to the re-match queue I hope that the following suggestion could be optional since I enjoy connecting with my favorites, but I also love meeting new people in Focusmate, as well! - Favorites 2.2: Preferential Matching — automatically match with favorites when they’re available in your chosen slot The biggest comment I would make relating to the Matching Preferences 2.0 might be to allow this an optional field/choice for users to fill out only if they use FocusMate exclusively for one type of work (or just allow a mix to be an option). I do some deskwork and other activities (cleaning, exercises, etc.) so I wouldn't want someone to expect me to be at the desk and I'd be working out instead. I think expectation management would be helpful to ensure everyone has the best experience. Thank you for your AMAZING product! Keep up the great work :)

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