Routine Safety Net for the unemployed
A gentle daily rhythm and accountability tool for people losing structure
- Problem
- A person laid off for six months describes staying up late, skipping chores, neglecting relationships and hygiene, with savings making it worse. What they lack is not a to-do list but a minimum daily rhythm, external accountability and some positive feedback.
- Solution
- Set daily minimums like waking up, exercise, applications and social contact, then check in with lightweight logs and weekly reviews that show trend lines. Invite one accountability partner to see progress, and let AI summarize setbacks with gentle recovery suggestions.
- Users
- Laid-off developers, people between jobs, freelancers and long-term remote workers living alone
- MVP
- Daily minimum-habit checklist; streak and gap visualization; weekly review summary; invite one accountability partner; privacy-first local storage
- Revenue
- Low-cost monthly subscription for partner sharing and AI weekly reports; one-time purchase for a local-only version
- Why now
- Layoffs and remote work make isolation and lost structure common, while mental-wellness light tools are rising; easy to build with existing LLMs
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