You know the feeling. You're deep in something, a message comes in, you mentally note "I'll reply to that in a minute" and then you surface three hours later and it's gone. Not gone from Slack, gone from your head.
That was me constantly. Slack messages, emails, things people mentioned in passing. They'd evaporate unless I acted on them immediately. My memory was not the system I thought it was.
I tried every task app. The problem was none of them were where the tasks were coming from. Tasks were living in Slack, in my inbox, in meeting notes and getting them into a separate app required enough friction that I'd skip it when I was busy. Which was always.
So in January I started building Qevo, a single inbox where anything actionable can land. Forward an email, send a message to a Slack bot, paste a link, it becomes a task. No app switching, no friction, nothing falls through.
Where I'm at:
2 months in, building mostly solo Handful of users, no paying customers yet Product works, now trying to figure out if anyone else has this problem badly enough to pay for it That last part is where I'm stuck. I know I had this problem. I know the people I've shown it to nod when I describe it. But converting that into users who actually stick around and eventually pay, that's the gap I'm trying to close right now.
If this resonates with you, or if you've solved this kind of distribution problem before, I'd genuinely love to hear how you thought about it.
http://www.getqevo.com if you want to look.