We joined the Limb accelerator! What changed for you after joining one?

We’ve just joined the Limb accelerator, a 5-week program focused on fundraising readiness, investor materials, and turning an early startup into something a bit less chaotic and a bit more investable.

We’re building Focido, a social to-do app based on one simple idea: people follow through more often when another human is part of the loop. Not more productivity noise, not more AI fluff, not another system that looks smart and gets ignored after 3 days. Just real human accountability, in a lightweight format that helps people actually do the thing.

That’s why this feels meaningful to us.

At some point, building product stops being the only challenge. You also have to explain the market clearly, defend the business model, understand your numbers, tighten your story, and make the whole company legible to other people. That’s the stage we’re in now, and honestly, it feels like the right moment to get outside pressure.

Also, yes, we had the same joke immediately: in Dante, limbo is the first circle of hell. Which is either terrible startup branding or extremely self-aware startup branding.

I’d love to hear from other makers here:

• What did an accelerator force you to finally get clear on?

• What part ended up being actually useful?

• What turned out to be mostly startup theater?

That’s the part I’m most curious about.