Focusmate - Virtual coworking for getting anything done

I'm excited about your new launch. I have already used some of the new features and am looking forward to using the others. I often recommend it to others who need help focussing. I appreciate your responsiveness to customer suggestions and can see how that has consistently made your product better. Thanks!

Literally my #1 productivity tool--and I love getting to meet people from all around the world! It was awesome even when it was bare bones and 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

It was an essential tool for me during Covid-19 lock down. I still use it, though not as much.

Maybe give the option for those with many sessions the ability to just display "500+ sessions" (like LinkedIn has 500+ connections). Some of us aren't trying to set any records & are content with just a simple designation.

Thank you so much for this fantastic application!! I'm obsessed! I feel like the changes coming up address this phenomenon, but I just wanted to address it directly, which is that there is a lot of noise in the name area. Many of us use the name feature for all sorts of things that are not our names: we share our activities, preferences, pronouns, etc. I would love to have actual spots for these things. Ex. an optional place for pronouns that are easy for people to see (not necessarily buried in the profile area). Or have an option for our goals for future sessions to be visible to others on the booking page, rather than as an area in our profile (it would also be great to see our goals reported back to us in the weekly report emails we get). It looks like you are working on integrating preferences into something that is sortable, which I really appreciate. I'm looking forward to less noise in the name area!

I love it, FM has helped me immensely and I recommend it to all my unfocused mates ;)

Focusmate is the most important app in my office, bar none. Thank you for your amazing work. If I could suggest one feature, it would be this: the ability to lock in a session, even if it's not with one of my favorited partners. That is, simply a tool that prevents someone who has favorited *me* from jumping in at the last minute, if I've locked in the session. The problem this would address is as follows: Let's say I see someone I've favorited and book a session with them. Sometimes, they'll have already been awaiting a session with someone they were actually pretty interested in working with. But by booking with them, I have overridden this and have forced my favorited partner to work with me instead. I had no way of knowing I was interfering with another pairing, and I've made myself an annoyance. So it'd be nice for my favorited partner if he could simply have a way of saying "for this session, even someone who has favorited me can't just jump in."

I've been using Focusmate regularly for a few weeks now and it's had a huge positive impact on day-to-day as a remote worker and as a contributor to software projects. Love the accountability. Love the connection. Love the way it helps me enforce a schedule and break up larger things into smaller ones. For me, things are always easier when tackled with others. Glad to hear that Preferential Matching / Rematching / Last Minute Booking are coming soon, as these are pretty obvious wins that I know I'll benefit from immediately.

Commenting a second time to say that I think a 10 minute session option would be awesome! Or 15. 5 give or take for talking before and after. Sometimes I just need to get up out of bed, or I need to do a 5-10 minute physical therapy exercise. Or I just need that time to get moving!

I absolutely love Focusmate and recommend it to everyone. I use the Google Calendar integration pretty heavily. I would love if when I created a Focusmate session, I could title it and have the title auto-populate in the auto-created GCal event. Currently, the only way to change the title of the GCal event is through GCal, and you have to edit it in a browser, not the app, since the GCal app doesn't allow you to edit events created by someone else. I also think messaging could be easier - right now it's pretty cumbersome to find the feature, and it's impossible to message someone to apologize once you've missed a session with them. And by the way I am experiencing a weird issue where when I plug in my laptop charger, my video turns off. Probably a hardware thing on my end, but just wanted to flag.