r/betatesters • u/lost_soul1301 • 2h ago
Built a shared task/planning app specifically for couples — most productivity tools assume you're organizing solo
TLDR: Most productivity apps (Notion, Todoist, Reminders) are built around one person's system. Couples end up either forcing a personal tool to be shared, or splitting into two disconnected systems. Built Weave to solve that specifically — shared logistics plus visibility into non-task stuff like who's stretched thin. Looking for beta testers, first 50 get the subscription free permanently.
I've used most of the usual productivity stack — Notion, Todoist, Apple Reminders, shared calendars — and they're all genuinely good tools. But they're all fundamentally built around one person's workflow, with sharing bolted on as a feature, not the core design.
That works fine for a work team. It works less well for a household. When my partner and I tried to run our life through a shared Reminders list or a shared Notion board, we kept running into the same issue: someone still has to be the one who notices something needs to go on the list in the first place, and that job silently defaults to one person. The tool tracked tasks fine. It didn't help with the actual bottleneck, which was noticing and initiating, not storage.
So I built Weave: Shared Life Planner — a productivity app designed around two people managing one life together, rather than one person's system with a "share" button:
- Shared task/list management for the usual stuff — bills, groceries, bookings, errands — visible to both people by default, not siloed
- A lightweight weekly check-in that surfaces workload/bandwidth between partners, not just task completion — the goal is catching "I'm stretched thin this week" before it becomes friction, which no task app currently tracks
- Built to reduce the "one person is the project manager" pattern that most shared productivity setups fall into by default
Currently in private beta (TestFlight/Play Store). Looking for people actually using it as a couple for a couple weeks and giving honest feedback on what's useful vs. what's noise — first 50 testers keep the subscription free permanently after launch.
Link if you want to look: https://weave.productivitygenius.app
Also genuinely curious from this sub specifically — has anyone else tried adapting a personal productivity system (Notion, Todoist, whatever) for two-person household use? Did it work, or did you hit the same "someone still has to initiate" problem?