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Indy is a free, AI-powered ADHD support app designed to help people stay oriented to what matters and translate that clarity into daily action, without relying on productivity pressure or generic AI advice._\n\n_—_\n\nHi YC family! 👋\n\nWe’re Chris & Vikram, and we’re building Shimmer. Our mission is for every individual with ADHD to reach their full potential, their way. Shimmer began after I (Chris) was diagnosed with ADHD and struggled to access affordable, high-quality behavioral support. Since then, we’ve grown into the #1 ADHD coaching platform recommended by clinicians across North America.\n\nAs large language models became viable, we saw a clear opportunity. ADHD isn’t a problem of knowledge, it’s a problem of continuity. Insight is available, but support disappears between moments. AI, for the first time, makes it possible to provide consistent, personalized scaffolding in the flow of daily life.\n\nThat opportunity is what led us to build Indy.\n\n### **❌ The Challenge**\n\nAcross tens of thousands of ADHD coaching sessions, one pattern shows up again and again.\n\nBreakthroughs don’t fail because people forget what they learned. They fail because daily life takes over.\n\nPeople leave a session with clarity about what matters and where they want to go. Then the week happens. Context shifts. Energy fluctuates. Emotions spike. Urgency crowds out direction.\n\nFor ADHDers, this breakdown is predictable:\n\n1. **🧠 Executive function is state-dependent**: What feels obvious in one moment is inaccessible in another. Memory, motivation, and prioritization fluctuate with energy and emotion.\n2. **🕳 The future fades quickly**: When goals are not emotionally present, the present always wins. ADHD brains respond to what feels salient now.\n3. **⏳ Support is episodic and constrained by human capacity**: Coaching, therapy, etc. work primarily during sessions, but disappear when real decisions are being made.\n\nExisting tools don’t address this well. General AI gives answers. Productivity apps manage tasks. Neither maintains orientation or adapts as conditions change.\n\n### **✨ The AI Opportunity**\n\nAI changes what’s possible here.\n\nFor the first time, software can:\n\n* Hold personal context over time\n* Reflect patterns back to users\n* Adapt support based on energy, emotion, and behavior\n* Provide lightweight scaffolding between human interactions\n\nThis is especially powerful for ADHD, where the problem isn’t knowing what to do, but staying connected to why and when to do it.\n\n### **✨ The Solution**\n\nIndy is a daily AI-powered ADHD support system designed to help people stay oriented to what matters and translate that clarity into everyday action.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96820&key=user_uploads/608519/4f19593d-f653-4231-9af2-dec8ee54418c)\n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n1. **Future mapping**: Users map key moments from their past, present, and future to anchor what they care about and where they’re headed.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96820&key=user_uploads/608519/ca3c694c-2405-4ab4-a880-4248696f0539)\n\n2. **Daily and weekly check-ins**: Indy helps users set lightweight intentions, anticipate obstacles, and reflect without pressure.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96820&key=user_uploads/608519/01183d22-d2fc-4650-a66e-74ae3a1d3886)\n\n3. **Insights over time**: Indy turns check-ins into pattern visibility. Users start to see what drains them, what helps, where momentum shows up, and what keeps derailing progress, so they can adjust earlier.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96820&key=user_uploads/608519/00ed985f-2290-48c7-9c15-9ae24d10e742)\n\n4. **Problem-solving when stuck**: When friction shows up, Indy uses science-backed frameworks to help users identify what’s actually blocking progress and choose a small next step.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96820&key=user_uploads/608519/9faff07a-2505-4abb-9067-17aee2dbc862)\n\n5. **Progress made visible**: Wins, effort, and insights are tracked so progress doesn’t disappear just because it wasn’t perfect.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96820&key=user_uploads/608519/7bbaa3f4-f6a9-4c49-9161-cdd848e8de8a)\n\n\nAI gives us a chance to rethink how behavioral support works for ADHD. Indy is our first step toward making that support continuous, accessible, and humane. Check out Indy to see it in practice! And [here](https://www.shimmer.care/blog/indy-app-for-adhd-wellbeing) is the full blog post!\n\n**🙏 Asks**\n\n* Try **Indy** for free: [**https://www.shimmer.care/indy-redirect**](https://www.shimmer.care/indy-redirect)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PBc-indy-ai-support-tool-for-adhd", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-01-15T08:57:37.592Z" }, { "id": 87083, "title": "Shimmer 2.0: AI-assisted ADHD Coaching", "tagline": "The #1 ADHD Coaching Platform is now AI-enhanced", "body": "tl;dr: _After facilitating over 45,000 1:1 ADHD Coaching sessions, we’ve designed Shimmer 2.0, a suite of AI features to support the coaching journey. This isn’t another chatbot or copilot, it’s a suite of embedded AI tools that amplifies the human connection between member & coach—helping members get more out of sessions and between sessions._\n\n—\n\n---\n\nHi YC family! 👋\n\nWe’re Chris & Vikram, and we’re building [Shimmer](http://www.shimmer.care). Our mission is for every individual with ADHD to reach their full potential, _their way_. Shimmer ADHD Coaching was born in 2022 after I (Chris) was diagnosed with ADHD and was frustrated with the lack of affordable, quality behavioral coaching solutions. Since then, we’ve grown tremendously, building the #1 ADHD Coaching Platform recommended by HCPs, therapists, and psychiatrists across North America.\n\n\n\n### **❌ The Challenge**\n\nAt Shimmer, we’ve run over 45,000 ADHD coaching sessions. Each session is packed with “aha” moments—but as soon as they’re over, life pulls you in a million directions and those insights slip away. To add to this, the week is often lost from lack of accountability and members come into sessions scrambling to remember the past week. Overall, for people with ADHD, it’s hard to _consistently_ hold onto what you learn, recognize bigger patterns, or stay on track day to day. Why?\n\n1. 🚧 **Our working memory challenges makes it hard to remember sessions**. Even the best breakthroughs vanish without a simple way to capture and revisit them.\n2. 👹 **We’re focused on the present & don’t always see the bigger picture (or future)**. Without a clear record, it’s tough to connect recurring themes or measure real progress.\n3. 🍬 **We lose momentum between sessions**. A coach can’t be there 24/7—and ADHD brains need constant nudges to stay motivated.\n\n### **✨ The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87083&key=user_uploads/608519/53f337be-252d-4135-9f36-9b78d22d1d5b)\n\n**Shimmer 2.0** is our new AI-powered “second brain,” doing what ADHD brains were never designed to do. Shimmer 2.0 automatically captures and organizes all your coaching insights, so you can finally spot the patterns, stay accountable, and turn each breakthrough into real-world action—even when your coach isn’t around. Here’s a bit on how it works:\n\n1. **AI-Powered Session Summaries:** Shimmer 2.0’s AI automatically recaps each session’s main points and action items, so you can easily revisit breakthroughs without piecing together scattered notes.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87083&key=user_uploads/608519/57f4600f-1280-4249-842b-1ee892aaa488)\n\n2. **Action Insights & Progress Tracking:** Visually map out your weekly actions, highlight patterns, and keep yourself accountable.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87083&key=user_uploads/608519/367d604b-cd7d-465d-ae02-9fef4addd3fa)\n\n3. **History (Second Brain):** View your entire journey in one place & instantly look up specific topics from past sessions and spot recurring themes at a glance.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87083&key=user_uploads/608519/ac9d5072-a251-4a37-8c1e-ae4dc05890ae)\n\n4. **Smart Search:** Lastly, my personal favorite—Ask your “second brain” the hard questions, like: “What strategies have worked for me?”, “What did my coach say about procrastination?”, “What should I be proud of”?\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87083&key=user_uploads/608519/af1c2807-67a0-4141-922f-e2dc168185fa)\n\n\nCheck out how Shimmer 2.0 weaves **AI** into your everyday coaching experience, amplifying the power of expert human coaching.\n\n### **🙏 ASKS**\n\n* Try Shimmer (or share w/ a friend), start with an ADHD coach [here](http://www.shimmer.care/). 25% off your first month (e-mail [chris@shimmer.care](mailto:chris@shimmer.care) if you want a founder-focused coach)\n* Read [our full blog post](https://www.shimmer.care/blog/adhd-coaching-2-ai-launch) and support [our Product Hunt Launch](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/shimmer-2-0)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MeZ-shimmer-2-0-ai-assisted-adhd-coaching", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-01-23T16:31:30.051Z" }, { "id": 83793, "title": "✨ Shimmer Body Doubling - Get things done, the ADHD way", "tagline": "The #1 ADHD Coaching Platform now offers Body Doubling", "body": "tl;dr: _After facilitating over 31,000 1:1 ADHD Coaching sessions, Shimmer members have access to the first multi-player community feature on the Platform—Body Doubling! Shimmer’s Body Doubling experience takes the popular ADHD co-working strategy and infuses the 6 ADHD motivators to help our members get more things done, the ADHD way._\n\n---\n\nHi YC family! 👋\n\nWe’re Chris & Vikram, and we’re building [**Shimmer**](http://www.shimmer.care/). Our mission is for every individual with ADHD to reach their full potential, _their way_. Shimmer ADHD Coaching was born in 2022 after I (Chris) was diagnosed with ADHD and was frustrated with the lack of affordable, quality behavioral coaching solutions. Since then, we’ve grown tremendously, building the #1 ADHD Coaching Platform recommended by HCPs, therapists, and psychiatrists across North America.\n\n### **❌ The Challenge**\n\nBody doubling is a popular strategy for people with ADHD (it works for neurotypical people too!) to get things done. It’s basically when you work in the presence of others, and the mere existence of them gives you positive accountability to get it done. It comes in many forms, and can even look like you doing laundry while chatting with your boyfriend while he cooks.\n\nThe challenge for people with ADHD, is that they don’t do these things consistently. Why?\n\n1. 🚧 **There’s too many hurdles**. They need to coordinate with people, it’s inconsistent, and people are unreliable\n2. 👹 **They’re ashamed**. Many body doubling apps exist already, but people with ADHD feel ashamed needing this tool just for their laundry, or to cook, or to do something else that seems mundane. Imagine showing up to a session and you can barely brush your teeth, and the other person says “I’m going to finish emailing back 10 investors on closing my round and launch our new podcast to Spotify”\n3. 🍬 **There’s not enough dopamine**. Isn’t this always the challenge with ADHD?! Whatever solution is out there, it’s not built to motivate ADHD brains.\n\n### **✨ The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83793&key=user_uploads/608519/dd6ff9c4-77bc-4531-9e74-ef8e34bf9129)\n\nShimmer Body Doubling (only available to Shimmer coaching members) is an ADHD-adapted Body Doubling experience that harnesses the power of the 6 ADHD motivators—interest, urgency, newness, accountability, challenge, and community, to help people with ADHD get things done.\n\n1. Before kicking off ADHD Body Doubling sessions, check-in with your feelings & connect with those of others.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83793&key=user_uploads/608519/ba3ef126-616c-448d-817e-a8b7359131a1)\n\n2. Commit to discrete tasks to stay accountable and get dopamine from checking things off!\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83793&key=user_uploads/608519/8dd2a99e-920e-47bc-adeb-71c8a80adc5a)\n\n3. Get inspired by other people’s tasks and progress. Motivation is contagious!\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83793&key=user_uploads/608519/b3e57121-c5dc-46d8-9759-2ec7f5a59743)\n\n4. Visualize time passing (key for ADHD brains!) and beat the clock\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83793&key=user_uploads/608519/d5776eb8-0d96-44cc-bc73-d74d8c75ebce)\n\n5. Learn something new in the 5 min break as each ADHD Coach brings their own flare\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83793&key=user_uploads/608519/879d8e04-3b90-4cfe-bc46-2c17eed45d0f)\n\n6. 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Now members access our sleek ADHD-adapted flows to manage their ADHD and reach their full potential._\n\n\\-\n\n---\n\nWe’re Chris & Vikram, and we’re building [Shimmer](http://www.shimmer.care). Our mission is for every individual with ADHD to reach their full potential, _their way_. Shimmer ADHD Coaching was born last year after I (Chris) was diagnosed with ADHD and was frustrated with the lack of affordable, quality behavioral coaching solutions. Since then, we’ve grown tremendously, building the #1 ADHD Coaching Platform recommended by HCPs, therapists, and psychiatrists across North America.\n\n### **❌ The Challenge**\n\nAfter working closely with 1,200+ adults with ADHD, 25+ expert ADHD coaches, and top ADHD experts, we watched first-hand the challenges ADHD-ers have in reaching their best life:\n\n1. **🔭 Direction**: Not setting behavioral goals or having a “vision” future state in mind\n2. **🪓 Action**: Not making actions (consistently) that are actually in line with their goals\n3. **🤿 Depth**: Picking up and dropping productivity apps that don’t help them get to their core issue.\n\n### **✨ The Solution**\n\nThe Shimmer Web App (in conjunction with the mobile app) is the guiding tissue between our members and their full potential. Facilitated by their expert ADHD coach, members:\n\n1. 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Our mission is for every individual with ADHD to reach their full potential, _their way_.\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects 5% of adults (13M in US), but most are still struggling to get their symptoms in check.\n\n* **It’s not a lack of knowledge, it’s action**: People with ADHD know to make a list, they just don’t do it. We need practice, experimentation, and accountability.\n* **Good behavioral interventions price most people out:** Quality ADHD coaching costs $300-600+/mo. This prices out, well, the people who need it most.\n* **The process is cumbersome & not fit for ADHD**: I’ve been there (Chris): dozens of consultation calls, not knowing what to ask, dated technology, confusing e-mail chains, scared to pull the trigger, the list goes on.\n\n**✨ Our Solution**\n\nShimmer is a platform that connects expert ADHD coaches with members, facilitates weekly calls, and offers accountability and support via our iOS & Android apps. 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The person might turn to friends and family, but they overreact or aren’t able to effectively support because they can’t relate. On top of that, professional help or in-person groups can be expensive, and it takes a lot of courage to get there.\n\n**Even those attending in-person groups (e.g. AA) feel isolated between weekly meetings**\n\nFor the minority who do join a group-based program, meetings are usually held only once a week — leaving participants largely on their own the other six days of the week.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nRelay helps users…\n\n* Get matched into a team of 5-8 peers\n* Experience meaningful connection and avoid slipping back into isolation\n* Find shame-free accountability\n* Train emotional awareness and understand patterns/triggers\n* Throw a red flag (i.e. SOS) with a single tap to let their team know they need help when feeling vulnerable\n\nSince launching in September 2021, 79% of our users have reported seeing improvement within their first month of using the app.\n\n## **Why we’re tackling this**\n\nMembers on our team have struggled personally with addiction and saw first-hand the power that comes from forming an effective team of peers for connection and accountability. 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Taro brings together top SWEs with proven insights to scale your career. **Check out our** [**website**](https://bit.ly/taro_app_web) **and** [**YouTube channel**](https://bit.ly/rahul_yt)**.**\n\nTaro helps full-time engineers get onboarded and promoted faster. We do this through Q&A and case studies from tech veterans, organized by company and level.\n\n### **⛔️ The Problem**\n\nAs a software engineer, you already know how to code. But **software engineering is so much more than coding**.\n\nOver the last 2 years, Alex and I built a community of 50K software engineers on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/rpandey1234), [Slack,](https://join.slack.com/t/techcareergrowth/shared_invite/zt-1ctxuq8h2-b3nnkQG0MtXyBpvrEFpgqQ) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/71614174/admin/). 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A Q&A database from real engineers, with answers from industry experts. **All questions are tagged by company + level, which makes it easy to find relevant content.** [Here’s a sample](https://app.jointaro.com/question/mvMQj8228kuUe38BvdT9).\n2. Case studies from eng leads + managers at top tech companies.\n3. A community of software engineers at top companies who share insights + advice.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65087&key=user_uploads/192956/62f78267-822d-4ab1-a232-5c3f586b48d9)\n\n### **💁🏽‍♀️ Target Audience**\n\nWe already have 100+ Taro Premium members from companies like Meta, Google, TikTok, and Amazon (along with thousands of free users).\n\nTaro is a great fit for **full time engineers at fast-moving tech companies**. Taro is **not** a good fit for freelancers or students who are still exploring software engineering.\n\n### **❓Our Ask**\n\n1. Reach out if you’re an engineer starting a new role, or are aiming for a promotion.\n2. 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CS degree from UCLA. Took a gap year to pursue bootstrapped entrepreneurship in Taiwan. By far the best chef in the apartment.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87903&key=user_uploads/1739520/7ff92c6e-665c-4393-991d-865dda1479be)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mrn-trata-anonymous-buyside-research-desk-for-hedge-funds", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2025-02-21T18:41:41.234Z" } ] }, { "id": 31215, "name": "Bubble Lab", "slug": "bubble-lab", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a94fc548c8500f0d7e462b5e941cb7f149637d0.png", "website": "https://bubblelab.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Bubble Lab helps event organizers and professional communities turn a room full of people into meaningful connections. 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Pearl connects to tools like Notion, Jira, and Stripe and runs real operational workflows for your team—no engineering required.\n\n**THE PROBLEM** ❌\n\nOperations work today is fragmented across dozens of tools. Updating CRMs after calls, generating reports, triaging customer issues, and coordinating workflows all require constant context switching and manual effort.\n\nAutomating these processes is even harder. Existing tools are brittle, require engineering time, or live outside where teams actually work. As a result, most ops teams still rely on manual processes, even for repetitive, predictable tasks.\n\nThis slows teams down and makes it harder to scale operations without scaling headcount.\n\n**OUR SOLUTION** 👷\n\nDemo: \n\nBubble Lab lets you deploy Pearl, your ops super-employee, directly into Slack in under a minute.\n\nWe’re already powering 4,000+ operators and fast-moving teams.\n\nPearl connects securely to your tools— Notion, Jira, HubSpot, Stripe, Google Workspace, and more—and can take action on your behalf. Teams use Pearl to:\n\n* Update HubSpot automatically after sales calls\n* Create Jira tickets from user feedback\n* Generate daily pipeline and revenue reports\n* Track and follow up on open invoices\n* Run operational workflows triggered directly from Slack\n\nWhen something needs to be repeated, Pearl turns it into a reliable workflow your team can run anytime.\n\nInstead of switching between tools or building custom automation infrastructure, teams can run and manage operations entirely from Slack.\n\n **OUR ASK 🙏**\n\nIf you run ops or growth at your company, we’d love to hear from you.\n\nTry Bubble Lab:[ https://bubblelab.ai](https://bubblelab.ai)\n\nWe’re especially excited to work with teams that want to automate operational workflows across their stack without engineering overhead.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PWl-bubble-lab-supercharge-your-ops-work-in-slack", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-02-24T14:13:32.293Z" } ] } ]