Planelo Blog
Planning, productivity, and team focus for modern builders.
If you wait until you are proud of your product, you have waited too long. This is a common saying in the startup world, but until I was actually in the driver'…
When I first started inviting people to use Planelo, I was prepared for technical bug reports. I had my debugger ready and my error logs open. What I wasn't pre…
I remember the exact moment I was supposed to hit the "Submit" button on Product Hunt. It was 3:00 AM, my heart was racing, and my hand was literally shaking on…
There is a specific kind of tunnel vision that sets in when you are building something alone. You spend weeks, then months, staring at the same pixels and the s…
I remember the night before I launched Planelo. I was sitting in my kitchen, staring at a screen filled with code and a launch checklist that seemed to get long…
We’ve all experienced that rush of adrenaline when a new, exciting idea hits us. In that moment, everything feels possible. We quickly jot down a note, maybe a…
We’ve all been there: you have a brilliant insight while standing in line for coffee. You quickly pull out your phone, open your note-taking app, and type it in…
I used to start every new idea by creating a new project in my task manager. I’d give it a name, set a deadline (usually an arbitrary one), and start listing ou…
We have a natural instinct to tidy up. When we see a pile of clothes, we fold them. When we see a cluttered inbox, we archive. In most areas of life, this insti…
I spent years believing that if my life felt chaotic, it was because I didn’t have enough folders. I bought into the productivity gospel that says every piece o…
I have a digital graveyard on my hard drive. It’s filled with accounts for dozens of different apps, each one once promising to be the "ultimate home" for my th…