Matty Reed

I wrote an article about this very question called "The Founder's Plunge". https://medium.com/@mattyreed1/t... Read below for an excerpt: When is the best time to take the plunge and found a company? The common advice is to wait until you’ve de-risked the decision by keeping your day job until the side-gig has sufficient revenue and growth. This way you never lose your income, and the...

This is a great question and something I've thought about a lot since I'm launching an app in the productivity realm. I really just try to find the handful of high-leverage tools that have the greatest ROI. One example is my sleep tracker SleepCycle. Just measuring my sleep has changed my behavior tremendously. Another example is the app I'm building called TimeAlign! It measures and...

It is just a fancy number... with that said, you linked me to a useful reddit discussion when I asked a question a few days ago, so can confirm you're bringing value!

Time blocking. Not just for your work tasks, but also for your: - Exercise - Quality time with loved ones - Rest/breaks - Adventures Time blocking personal time has the following benefits: 1. You are more likely to actually do something if you make a commitment on your calendar to do it at a specific time for a specific duration. 2. Work is less likely to interfere with personal time if your...

I'm currently shopping for the best video subtitles/captioning tool, so I'd love to try this! Is there a discount for PH launch? Also, FYI, your grammar on the second slide is bad. It should read: "Words that pop!" Not a great look for a subtitle product if the grammar on the subtitles is off. ;)

I started with Sketch and Moved to Figma. It was really no competition.

It is possible to launch an MVP too soon! I take YC advice seriously, but their advice to launch as soon as possible is a bit misleading. We launched TimeAlign "Alpha" to a handful of eager users, but the product was underdeveloped and we ended up losing trust with these early users because they were expecting more value. The lessons learned: - Don't call your product an MVP until you have...

Whoop for time management!

I still find a lot of the GPT wrappers a bit lacking and find myself coming back to ChatGPT for most things. I definitely use Github Copilot a lot, but I haven't found myself using other niche "AI Assistants" in my daily life. I love your product idea though, so I'll def check it out! My problem with sugar is less about knowing exactly how much is in everything I eat and finding alternatives...

Can I change the weights of the variables? For example, remote work is MUCH more important than vacation policy for me. So fully remote would result in a much better work-life balance than an on-site job with lots of vacation time.

@jordan_dominguez have a peek at this tool! Might be able to bolster our TimeAlign pre-seed. Im curious if this is more than just an aggregated CRM? Does it include email contacts?

Yes! I am a novice developer and this sounds like the tool I've been looking for. I keep asking the seasoned developers on my team why I can't just describe what I need and search for it within the codebase instead of searching for exact terms or files. Looking forward to installing this!

This is a great idea! I want to share this with my therapist. I have a couple questions: 1. How do you ensure client information is kept private? Is the information being sent to an LLM (like GPT) for processing? 2. How is this different than a GPT with a prompt?

I've been using Opal for 6 months now. When I first saw this product, it looked very similar. But after digging in a bit, it seems you've come up with a better solution and you've addressed my biggest issue with Opal. Opal allows me to categorize screen time as good or bad, but the reporting treats all screen time the same. I don't care about my screen time, I care about WASTED time. There...

Your website is absolutely brilliant! I'm building an early stage startup, so we don't have the budget for this product, but I'm excited to give it a try once we raise! If the design of the app is anywhere as beautiful as the lander, I'm sure I'll love it!

We are building a remote company, so showing face is important. It really comes down to communication bandwidth. Humans evolved to take visual cues from facial expressions, without these visual cues, information can be lost or misunderstood. in-person > video call > call w/o video

From my experience, it works best if everyone is remote or everyone is onsite (including hybrid onsite). I actually think remote work can reduce the "office politics" burden that runs rampant through onsite cultures. At all of my onsite jobs in my career, I paid a penalty for refusing to play politics. At my remote jobs, there is a much greater emphasis on intentionality and output. Don't...