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Focus · 18h ago
Not talking about code. Talking about product decisions. Every startup seems to have the same landing page, same pricing page, same roadmap page. At what point does "best practice" become everyone building the same thing?
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Focus · 1d ago
Got 4 projects open right now. The annoying part is I can see progress in all of them. Which means none of them are moving fast enough.
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Focus · 2d ago
Yesterday I released the Linux version of Focus. I wasn't expecting much. Maybe a few downloads, maybe some feedback if I got lucky. Instead, I opened GitHub a little later and saw more than 200 downloads. Still trying to process that. When you're building something for a long time, most of the work happens quietly. You spend hours fixing things, packaging releases, testing, and wondering if anyone will even notice. Seeing people actually download it felt different. Back to work today, but that was a nice surprise.
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Focus · 3d ago
For a while I kept wondering why nothing was getting shipped. I was working every day, but somehow releases kept getting pushed further away. Then I looked at what I was doing. I wasn't building one product. I was constantly switching between multiple products, ideas, and experiments. It felt productive because I was always busy, but not much was actually getting finished. A few months ago I decided to put most of that aside and focus on a single product for a while. Today I released the Linux version of Focus. Looking back, the lack of progress wasn't a time problem. It was an attention problem.
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Focus · 4d ago
A few years ago, if you had told me that a small Android app I built for myself would one day run on Windows and Linux, I probably wouldn't have believed you. The truth is, Focus almost never made it this far. Like most side projects, it started with excitement. I spent hours designing, building, and imagining what it could become. Then reality arrived. Progress was slower than expected. Features took longer than planned. There were periods where the project barely moved at all. There were moments when abandoning it seemed like the logical decision. Nobody was waiting for the next update. Nobody was asking for new features. Nobody would have noticed if I had quietly archived the repository and moved on. But every time I thought about stopping, I kept coming back to the same idea: what if I just kept going a little longer? Not because I was certain it would succeed. Not because I had a perfect roadmap. Simply because I wasn't ready to give up on something I believed could become meaningful. That mindset changed everything. Over time, the project improved. The rough edges became polished. The simple Android app grew into a Windows application. And today, I'm releasing the first Linux version of Focus. Looking back, the biggest lesson wasn't about development, design, or productivity. It was learning that progress rarely looks impressive while you're living through it. Most days feel small. A bug fixed. A screen redesigned. A feature completed. Individually, those moments seem insignificant. But months and years later, they become the foundation of something you once thought was impossible. Focus now runs on Android, Windows, and Linux. And for anyone working on a project that feels like it's moving too slowly, this is your reminder: You don't need massive breakthroughs. You just need enough belief to keep showing up for one more day.