Shunsuke Nakagawa

nudge - Drop your tasks. AI auto-schedules your whole week.

nudge auto-schedules your entire week. Drop tasks → AI places them by deadline, around your real life. - Ready in 10 seconds. No templates. No tutorials. - Add a task in 2 seconds. Type it. AI schedules it. - Drop a TODO.md file — nudge plans your week from it. - Calendar, list, and Kanban — one fast workspace. - Schedules around your sleep, meals, gym, and deep-work hours. $5 first month. $9/mo after. Half price for students. Solo-built by a 20yo engineering student in Tokyo.

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Shunsuke Nakagawa
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Shun, a 20-year-old engineering student building solo from Tokyo. This is my very first Product Hunt launch — I've shipped a few small things before, but nudge is the first product I'm putting in front of the world. THE PROBLEM I run 4+ projects at once (school, indie apps, a part-time gig). I had Notion full of tasks. I had Google Calendar full of blocks. Nothing connected. I lost ~15 min every morning just figuring out what to do next. I tried Motion — but $29/mo and a 2-week setup curve killed it for me and most of my friends (students, indie hackers, Obsidian people). WHAT NUDGE DOES 1. Drop your tasks → AI auto-schedules them by deadline, into a real calendar. 2. Already write tasks in Markdown? Drop your TODO.md and nudge parses it, plans your week. 3. Set your real life once — sleep, meals, gym, deep-work hours — and nudge respects all of it. No tasks at 11pm. No deep work right after lunch. 4. Calendar, list, Kanban — all in one place. Switch views, never re-enter data. 5. Ready in 10 seconds. No templates. No tutorials. PRICING $5 your first month, then $9/mo. Half price ($5/mo) for students with a verified ID. (Motion is $29.) WHAT I'D LOVE FEEDBACK ON - Is the Markdown import the killer feature for you, or is it auto-scheduling? - What MD source should I support next? Obsidian / GitHub Issues / Logseq? - Anything that feels off in the first 10 seconds — that's where I lose people. Since this is my first launch, every upvote and every "this sucks because X" comment genuinely means a lot. I'll be in the thread all day. — Shun 🙏 Tokyo · 3rd-year engineering student · solo
Jackson Burch
I know this is a weird take on an AI scheduler, but using Astrology to plan tasks has been beneficial for me! Might be a cool feature to try here that would set you apart.
Shunsuke Nakagawa

@jacksonburch 

Oh that’s actually such a cool idea 🔥 Thanks for sharing Jackson, definitely something to think about!

Jackson Burch
@shun_build let’s connect on LinkedIn! I’d love to help where I can
Shunsuke Nakagawa

@jacksonburch 

@jacksonburch Appreciate that so much 🙏 I actually haven't set up my LinkedIn yet — once I create one, I'll connect with you!

Tina Feng

I like this!! I always have a million task every monday and this would be really helpful!

Shunsuke Nakagawa

@tina_feng1 

Thank you so much Tina!! 🥹 Comments like this seriously keep me going. “A million tasks every Monday” is exactly who I built this for, so it means the world that it resonates 🔥

Shunsuke Nakagawa

@tina_feng1 

Thank you so much Tina!! 🥹 Comments like this seriously keep me going. “A million tasks every Monday” is exactly who I built this for, so it means the world that it resonates 🔥

Naumaan Zahid

Never really understood where the value is in having AI schedule your week or your diary, seems like a very blunt tool that would lack qualitative real world insight.

Sorry to come across negative but interested to know if you've already addressed this challenge?

Shunsuke Nakagawa

@naumaan_zahid 

Thanks for checking it out! Google Calendar integration is on the roadmap — you're right that without it, the auto-scheduling can't truly work around your real day. We're also launching a new feature today that's a step in that direction. Stay tuned!

Shunsuke Nakagawa

Honestly didn’t expect this many people to check it out — kinda emotional rn 🥺 More features are already in the works, so stay tuned! And seriously, drop any ideas you have — I’d love to hear them 🙌

Samir Asadov

The zero-setup angle is underrated. Most task managers ask you to learn a system before you can use them, which defeats the point for anyone with an already-full schedule.

I work on M&A deals in renewable energy and the hardest weeks are due diligence sprints — 80% of tasks are reactive, deadlines shift daily, and any app that requires manual calendar slotting gets abandoned by day 3. The AI auto-scheduling premise solves exactly that.

I built DishRoll (https://dishroll.netlify.app/) with a similar insight applied to meal planning — the friction isn't cooking, it's the weekly decision overhead of figuring out what to eat, especially during high-intensity work periods. Strip the decisions away and people actually follow through. The products are in different domains but the core UX thesis is identical.

Curious how nudge handles deadline conflicts when tasks genuinely can't all fit. Does it surface the conflict explicitly, or silently reprioritize?

Shunsuke Nakagawa

@samir_asadov 
Great question — honestly something I'm wrestling with right now.

To be straight with you: currently the AI silently reprioritizes in the background based on priority scores. No explicit conflict surfacing yet.

But I keep getting stuck on this design choice. For reactive-heavy work — which is exactly your due diligence sprint scenario — silent reprioritization is convenient, but the moment a user discovers a deadline got dropped without them knowing, trust is gone. That's too steep a price to pay for zero-setup.

So the direction I'm leaning toward is splitting conflicts into soft vs hard:

  • Soft (can be resolved by shifting time slots, clear priority gap) → AI handles silently, no notification

  • Hard (genuinely can't fit, deadline collision) → always surface explicitly, let the user decide

The principle I want to anchor on: never silently drop a deadline. Everything below that line gets automated.

In parallel, I'm building toward per-user duration estimation — learning how long a given task type actually takes for that person. If we can predict task duration accurately, conflict detection itself gets sharper. The beta is partly about gathering that data.

Curious how you drew the line on DishRoll — between "strip the decision" and "let the user pick." Meal planning could be "fully auto-generate from this week's ingredients" or "surface 2 options, let them choose," and those feel like very different products. Would love to hear how you thought about that tradeoff.

Samir Asadov

@shun_build  Thanks for being straight about it! That kind of transparency is rare and genuinely appreciated. When the reprioritisation happens, how does a user currently find out? Is there any indicator in the UI, or does it just silently shift?

Shunsuke Nakagawa

@samir_asadov 

Great question — and honestly, right now it does just silently shift, which is exactly what’s bugging me about the current design.

A couple of things I’m prototyping:

1. A subtle diff marker (↑/↓) on tasks that moved, so you can see at a glance what changed since you last opened the app.

2. A short “why” panel — e.g., “Pushed X to Thursday because Y came in with a tighter deadline” — so the reasoning is visible, not just the new state.

The tricky part is dosage. Too aggressive and it becomes notification anxiety; too quiet and it feels like the AI is making decisions behind your back. Leaning toward: diff visible by default, but only push-notify on “material” shifts (e.g., something got bumped out of today entirely).

Shunsuke Nakagawa

First upvote on Product Hunt 🥹

And just got my first user too!

This means a lot, thank you 🙏

https://x.com/xu0krsodfz56576?s=21

Karan Arora

Congratulations on the launch. I have also tried motion but it's not good at all.

Currently I m using marblism for automating repetitive admin tasks like emails/calendar/meeting notes + content and outreach on social and it's agents are way better to than my part time VA. I think nudge is more like a personal assistant.

Shunsuke Nakagawa

@gamifykaran 

Thanks Karan 🙏 And yeah, exactly — nudge is meant to be that personal assistant layer, not another agent doing tasks for you.

A lot more personalization features are coming soon, so stay tuned 👀