A way to work with the time you have even when you’re busy If you’re reading this, you may already know first-hand how the magic of Focusmate takes 50 minutes of your day and turns it into real, visible progress on your goals. But let’s face it—you don’t always have a full hour, you may
We want people of every gender to feel welcome on Focusmate. While the Focusmate community is an exceptionally safe and supportive one, the broader Internet (and world) is not. Oftentimes, women receive unwanted attention from men, and trans and gender diverse people experience harassment and violence. Many Focusmate community members, especially women, said that they
On September 26th, we will start charging for Focusmate. You’ll be able to choose between a limited free plan and an unlimited paid plan. Why are we starting to charge? Our vision is to build the most supportive community on earth; to reach as deeply as we can into people’s lives to support them in
I hope you all in the U.S. had a great Thanksgiving holiday. Recent Updates Database architecture. From a user perspective, our recent work might feel a bit boring or irrelevant. That’s because most of it is happening on the back end, where we’re making the way that bookings happen more flexible. This will enable a
Below are the latest product updates and plans, as of today, November 6, 2018 (go vote!). New Updates Session titles. You can now add a title or name to your sessions. Watch a short tutorial. Upcoming sessions area. The upcoming sessions area has new logic: it will show sessions today and tomorrow. If you have
Dear Focusmate fam, Below are the latest product updates and plans, as of today, October 22, 2018. We missed one Product Update due to [insert excuses here… Mike’s baby was born!] but we’re back on track and looking forward to your feedback in the comments! New Updates Jitsi fixes ongoing. We removed several Jitsi features that
Dear Focusmate fam, Below are the latest product updates and plans, as of today, September 20th, 2018. Let us know your feedback in the comments! New Updates Video service provider change: Replacing Appear.in with Jitsi Effective Saturday morning at roughly 10am Eastern Standard Time, we’ll switch from using appear.in as our video provider to Jitsi.
Dearest Focusmate community, Below are the latest product updates and plans, as of today, August 27th, 2018. Let us know your feedback in the comments! New Updates We did a bunch of small stuff this sprint. (A “sprint” is a 2-week unit of time used for planning purposes in Agile/Scrum software development methodology.) So I’m
Here’s the 3rd edition of our bi-weekly update on new and planned features. Let us know what you think in the comments! New Features These features are either already live or will be by Tuesday, August 14, 2018. Consolidate calendar invitation emails You will now only receive calendar invitations when you book or cancel an appointment,
Here’s the second edition of our bi-weekly update on new and planned features. As noted last time, two weeks is not much time, so these will be small updates, but they’ll help us stay accountable to you, our users, while also keeping you in the loop and providing another opportunity for you to share ideas
