Focusmate - Virtual coworking for getting anything done

Congrats @taylor_jacobson, and the entire Focusmate team! It's been awesome to see all the releases -- particularly excited to see Favorites! It's changed my entire experience of using Focusmate. Well done!

Focusmate is LIFE. I literally can't get anything done without Focusmate (which is bolstered by the fact that I just completed my 2,000 session last night!). I've loved many of the new developments -- favorites, 25 minute sessions, and favorites combined availability have all been such incredible improvements. I'm also very excited to see the new adjustments you all have mentioned -- all really wonderful improvements! One thing I'd love to see is being able to set up 'co-working rooms' within the platform to be able to work with multiple Focusmateys at a time. I've been developing a really wonderful network of fellow women PhD students, and I would love to be able to bring us all together for some awesome productivity sessions on the platform that originally connected us!

Measuring total minutes focused alongside total sessions would be super cool!

I've been using since really early days and really appreciate the product even when I fall off the wagon and back into my unproductive habits for weeks on end. As soon as I log back on, I remember how amazingly productive I am when logged in. Love the planned changes - especially floating window so I don't need to move everything around to have the FM window peeking at the side and reminding me I am on camera. LOVE idea of being able to be queued for open slots /no shows if I happen to log in at 10:01. Auto favorites is good too and it would be fun to see the time for the person at the other end next to their name - I enjoy knowing it's a global experience and my day is starting when theirs is ending, or they are pulling an all nighter ahead of an exam in a country I have never been to - it's fun to be part of a big community with no borders. I don't mind when people have to chat to talk, but camera off *and* chat to talk feels like there is no one on the other end at all for me and defeats the purpose. I'd like to be able to not be matched with people who want to both be off camera and off mike - there aren't many of them but I have met a few for whole that is their default. I get sometimes off mike is preferred/needed, but I find it more time consuming to type a list than to just say what I'm planning to do so I'd rather limit those but it doesn't happen that often. I've only met one or two who *don't* mute and I think muting after intro should be default as it is distracting for the other person (though maybe some would. like a white noise/office sounds sound track while they work, there are other ways they can do that).

I could not love focusmate more. It is life-changing for me. The one thing I would like to see is a group specifically for exercising. I know that people doing non-desk work is totally fine, but I (and others) are self-conscious about exercising specifically. I also would probably like to have a gender preference for exercising, but don't care for anything else. I personally don't think it's necessary for to have separate groups for cleaning, etc. I realize that dividing people up into groups limits the pool for matches, so probably best not to have too many groups. I have been lucky to find an exercise partner via the focusmate exercise facebook group, but we only exercise together a few times a week and I'd like to do more!

I learned about Focusmate last summer and immediately loved the idea. Right away I used it to complete a personal project that I'd been neglecting. I don't think I'd ever have completed it without Focusmate; it would just have languished forever. I always book shortly before the session. I found that if I book ahead of time, it constrains the flow of my day too much. There are some new features I would enjoy having. However, what's most important to me is that Focusmate stay very simple and easy to use. I hate it when a favorite app gets overly complex and I end up abandoning it. Therefore I request that you add no more new features at all. Put your development effort into making the existing features work as smoothly and intuitively as possible.

This application has helped me be more productive in my world and feel connected to people all over the world. Abd the support team is responsive and helpful.

Love love LOVE Focusmate! I've been using it for 18 weeks and am averaging 26.4 sessions per week. Wooo! Feature idea/request #2: Allow me to put something in the session chat BEFORE the session starts. - I could start a list of session goals or to-dos ahead of time. - I could let my partner know (for example) that I might be a couple minutes late, or that I'll be up and moving so they can feel free to cancel with me if that would bother them. Yes, I know I can already do this by sending a message to their email, but I personally don't pay THAT close of attention to my own email, and I think putting it in the session chat would be ideal for short-notice messages--and the only practical option for capturing my session goals ahead of time.

Thank you FocusMate! You've transformed my at-home work.

The additions sound great! I recommend FM all the time. Thanks for a great place to be productive.