Procrastinating is a common thing, many ask about it, and there are many poor generic answers on the web that don't usually help you make any progress.
Thru specific thought out conversation and exercises one can alleviate most of these, while there are many reasons, personalities, situations etc, I believe there is a core that can be treated similarly, even if the solution is to come from one of 20 technics (it's probably a long tail problem, where 80% would be solve with 20% of the ways...), iterating thru them should be reasonably simple..
I'm thinking about this as a conversation format with form/email/sms/other contact methods..
You say you have an issue you are procrastinating on, what the issue is, you pay the fee (10$? 25$?) and we run thru different ways to try to help you solve it until you do, however long it takes (could be weeks/months if we try one thing per day and it's long...) or your money back.
I don't really like the one-off pay module, but it might be a huge market?..
You can think of this as a very small point psychological consultation process / coaching or something..
Thoughts? Have you seen some product similar to this in that space?..
Would you have considered using something like this or recommending this to someone? Risk free, your money back if we don't solve it to your satisfaction
Hi there. Productivity is a big market. "Life hacks" are huge. Something like the pomodoro technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique has spawned many different variations, and probably a few SaaSes. So, yes, solving procrastiation would be a thing. But I think you need to approach it as going for the life hack market. I'm not sure your current idea works (too complicated, didn't really understand it) .. but keep iterating! And hit the life hack community forums ....
The simple pitch:
Stuck procrastinating on a thing, we will coach you thru it.
Results promised or your money back.
Interesting ... I guess if I'm procrastinating on filling out my tax return you could offer up advice on technical solutions for scanning my receipts, stuff like that. But I don't see myself paying for it .... maybe I'm not the target market. From a quick read here https://www.reddit.com/r/procrastinate/ sufferers seem to procrastinate all the time, it's not really a single thing they're stuck on.
I could, but this product offer is just to get you moving and actually doing it, we all know postponing is not going anyone any good, your life just gets harder with another thing nagging at you and exhausting you from doing the important things or enjoying your life.
In another context I'd be happy to identify more paid things I could offer you.
Reading through some of that reddit forum, I think you will run into people who suffer from mental health issues. This one for example https://www.reddit.com/r/procrastinate/comments/elxf90/chronic_procrastinator/ Of course they know that postponing won't do any good - they know that only too well - and it can cause depression. If you really want to offer this service, I think you would need someone on board with training in such matters. A psychologist.
Just to confirm, I'm not interested in this for myself and am not looking for a paid service. I'm just trying to help you brainstorm your idea!
I am trying to understand what you are trying to build.
so basically instead of those Blog Post teach you how not to procrastinate.
You are trying to build some kind of ChatBot?
I haven't seen any similar products before.
I haven't pay attention to this "solving Procrastinate problem" space.
I probably won't pay for it. I can't see the necessity for me personally
Thanks for the feedback.
Chatbot would be a good comparison, just strched out across multiple days...