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3 | 4/19/2017 23:22:11 | Ringly | ringly.com | Christina d'Avignon, CEO | christina@ringly.com | How might we empower women to lead more balanced and healthy lifestyles. | Wearable technology has the ability to make us healthier, happier, more mindful and more productive (without always staring at a screen). Our smart jewelry keeps you notified of what's important by filtering your phone's notifications, so you can enjoy the moments that matter most to you without the anxiety of needing to check your phone. We also offer activity tracking and are about to launch breathing exercises and guided meditation. We teach you how to have a healthier relationship with technology. Our new campaign is encouraging women to 'Look Up'. | 10k-100k devices sold | 11 - 100 people | We are venture backed and sell devices. | We sell devices, but we also listen to our customers on how our products help them keep their phones away but not miss important notifications. | Empowering the design community to make better design decisions. | You very eloquently communicate everything I think about :) | |||||||||||||
4 | 4/18/2017 22:51:07 | Communications in Focus (CIF) | www.sitefocus.com | Cameron | kkoo@sitefocus.com | How can we use AI to help people work and live better? | Data and analytics tools lack the human context. CIF is the first universal AI tool for unstructured data that enables *anyone* to find narrative insights from unstructured, textual data with the speed & ease of a Google Search. CIF empowers people & organizations to process unstructured data at scale and -in the process- enables them to embrace and encourage unstructured data. CIF enables anyone to combine quantitative and qualitative data to acquire a more complete picture and understanding into everything they do. - What's the difference between an 7 and an 8? - Why is a restaurant averaging 4 stars, but 3 stars in the last 2 weeks? - What do people love most about a 4D family sedan's safety features? | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly) | |||||||||||||||||
5 | 4/18/2017 1:34:32 | viable human | http://viablehuman.com | Chris Lorensson, Product Experience Designer | chrislorensson@gmail.com | How can we become better global citizens while we have a huge time and attention deficit? | Time taken is minimal. I leverage UX Writing and behavioral design to effect tiny, ongoing changes that build positive habits. | Starts in May 2017 | 1-10 people | Donation-based / Pay-What-You-Can | By watching #viablehuman social media posts, and understanding the post content from real people | nope! | ||||||||||||||
6 | 4/17/2017 2:44:08 | Bluntly | http://getbluntly.com | Brady James, CEO | brady@getbluntly.com | How can we help people in the cannabis community connect with new, like-minded friends in their local community to build meaningful, lasting relationships and work together towards de-stigmatizing cannabis use? | We are designing the app with the mindset that the features should encourage users to go out and explore the world. Advertisements will feature relevant local events and other meetup opportunities to provide users with helpful information to promote face-to-face interaction. | 1-10 people | Freemium, Advertising | Perhaps tokens awarded for successful meetups/hangouts that are used for added benefit to the user in the app. Rewarding interaction with users outside the app. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | |||||||||||||||
7 | 4/16/2017 5:36:39 | Get Motivated Buddies | http://www.getmotivatedbuddies.com | Michael Goldstrom, CEO | getmotivatedbuddies@gmail.com | How can we use technology to increase our attention on our actual personal priorities. | 1) the goal is not to increase time spent on the site, but to increase integrity between planning and doing 2) The goal is to create a greater sense of sensitivity of the relationship between an abstract idea and it's place in Time (planning vs doing) 3) the goal is to use elements of persuasion to reinforce behaviors that are in alignment with a person's betterment (i.e. schoolwork, learning a language or even spending time with friends) 4) To increase a user's ownership of their time, a sense of self-responsibility. Most media sites remove both the feeling and the reality of responsibility/agency from online and the real world. | ~10k (just begun) | 1-10 people | Just begun and working on different monetization possibilities. | This is the KEY question in development. 1) users' engagement with challenges. 2) users' ratings of each other as buddies (like airbnb) 3) concrete completed achieved goals (i.e. studied for exam, completed novel, spent 8 hours with friend this week) | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course, Being in touch. | I just listened to the interview on Sam Harris' podcast, I'd very much like to be in touch with Tristan. It was extraordinary luck to hear it right now, because I've been working for many months on the possibilities of this project. Not being a programmer I've focused on finding the right target market and just opened up the site as a blog in order to build traffic. The functionality of the site (as a matching community for accountability partners, and a service to help people manage their attention and commitments in a fun way is at a very early stage). | |||||||||||||
8 | 4/12/2017 13:50:18 | Elgoog | http://elgoog.onsocialengine.com/profile/240694 | Matt Gaboury | mgaboury@imail.iu.edu | How might we get people to imagine the future and ALL build it together? | My site asks users big powerful questions about how they will help build the future. Instead of constantly feeding news to users that do not enhance their lives, we will submit questions about how they will help build the future. We actually care about the users' success in life. If they succeed, we all succeed. We ALL must work together to solve the world's most difficult problems. The more connected minds working on a problem, the better. | No one yet | 1-10 people | Freemium | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | I am very passionate about the collective human intelligence we have on this planet and I believe it is being stifled with all the distractions we have. We have lost our imaginations and creativity we once had back in the 1950s and 1960s. We need to get back to that brave pioneering spirit if we want to see a better future. We need to start having more minds coming forward online and sharing big new ideas to solve problems. We have to start asking bigger, better, and definitely the right questions in order to solve big problems. Questions also get people to think differently and hopefully act on new solutions. I think my social networking site can achieve this. I am in need of assistance in getting it off the ground. Thank you for reviewing this, and I hope to hear from you soon! | ||||||||||||||
9 | 4/10/2017 21:57:03 | We are staying under the radar | We are staying under the radar, but working with leaders who have more than 1,000,000 combined followers | Glenn Hallam | ghallam@solvex.org | We empower leaders to have a positive impact on the future direction of technology, while helping people live quality lives. We do this in two ways - 1) by combatting the many problems of smartphone technology - texting and driving, brain hacking, poor quality content, distracting advertising, shallow relationships and unhappiness ... while 2) providing a compelling alternative to other applications and driving people to quality experiences that contribute to happiness - face-to-face time, volunteering, exercise, real relationships, etc. | Every decision we make is about time well spent while still building a sustainable company | 11 - 100 people | Freemium, Advertising, Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | Time protected, events attended, neighbors connected, volunteer hours devoted, happiness index ... | We're building a board and providing some equity as compensation. | I'd like to come show it to you. I'm a Stanford grad and psychologist who works with technology. I think we would enjoy getting together sometime. | ||||||||||||||
10 | 4/10/2017 19:53:07 | 2-Way Micropay | 2waymicropay.com | Dave Reardon, CEO | DaveReardon@gmail.com | How can we empower every person to evaluate and capture the value of their time, attention, and market identities? | Unlike other major tech companies, instead of capturing our user's data, time, and attention exclusively for our own profits, we empower users to set their own price on their time, attention, and data in exchange for a minority share of that value. | In a prior incarnation, we had 8,000 users. | We earn 15-30% of the micropay revenue received by our users. | Number of users and revenue each user earns and spends via our micropay platform. | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", opportunities to collaborate | Here's a overview video https://youtu.be/K3mmkIBWhII and this is page spells out benefits of our platform for everyone involved, consumers, content creators, and advertisers. | ||||||||||||||
11 | 4/10/2017 16:47:54 | Sparksfly | http://www.sparksfly.com | David Bankston, Co-Founder & CEO | david@sparksfly.com | There are: too many “apps”, too many passwords, and too much to do. Applications that decrease complexity are the key to both usefulness, and personal productivity That is why we are developing Sparksfly™. Sparksfly simplifies the online experience for individuals, and increases productivity for the enterprise. It helps people organize friends, family, work associates, former classmates, colleagues, teams, classmates, and many more into the routines that are the best fit for each of us. individuals are able to connect multiple social profiles to their account. They then can manage all of their routines with one unified profile For consumers:Sparksfly enables consumers to simplify their social experiences. For brands:Sparksfly provides brands with an opportunity for meaningful, targeted, consumer engagement based on data generated by Sparksfly users. When using Sparksfly, consumers will self-select (qualify) favorite brands into routines. | The Sparksfly platform and the Sparksfly AI engine are proprietary technologies that have taken over two (3) years to architect and build. They include the software platform, the highly developed UI, the API integrations with major social networks, an “authentication fabric” which allows integration with virtually any additional networks that deploy API strategies, and the Sparksfly Inference Engine based on fuzzy logic algorithms. They also include administrative tools. Collectively, they are not easily replicated. They require not only specialized understanding of sophisticated integration's, but also, specialized understanding of business and social architectures. Sparksfly is the right product at the right time for today’s technology market. By simplifying user experience in an increasingly complex online world, Sparksfly fulfills a pressing market need for both the consumer and brand engagement. | 25,000 | 1-10 people | |||||||||||||||||
12 | 4/6/2017 11:27:42 | Timepot | https://www.timepot.io/ and demo of the app: https://timepot-demo.io/ | Kasia Fulara, COO | kasia@timepot.io | Our goal is to help companies take control over time and make better business decisions. We help people to stop procrastinating and do things that are really important. | We design our app to be as easy and ergonomic as possible. Logging tasks and time should be a seamless experience. We provide robust reports so that people can see what they did with their time and they can organize future tasks better. Success for us is when people use their time better thanks to Timepot. | We started this year, currently we have ~300 registerted companies. | 11 - 100 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly) | Stop procrastination Better plan future time | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent" | ||||||||||||||
13 | 4/3/2017 10:20:16 | VIIVAS | www.viivas.com | Pearly Jawal, co-founder | pearly.jawal@viivas.com | How can we encourage people to take time to improve their wellbeing? How can we encourage them to connect with experts who can help them reach their goals and live better lives? | Our purpose is to enable people to improve their wellbeing in a very simple, convenient, and approachable way. In the world where we live in today, stress has become the norm. Whether we are students, employees, executives, entrepreneurs, parents, men, women, single, or married, we all have our daily preoccupations, we are all working long hours, we all have our personal and professional challenges, and we are all overwhelmed with the astonishing amount of information we are exposed to during the day through our phones and laptops, on social media, and on TV. All of these things makes it sometimes hard for us to stay calm, concentrated, and productive, while our energy is wasted on things that prevent us from focusing on ourselves, developing ourselves, and growing. Viivas Team's mission is to offer very simple and personalized ways to improve well-being and remind people how important it is to take care of their emotional well-being the same way they take care of their physical well-being.That's why we are bringing together in one place, all kinds of activities, experts, products, and stories that can help to improve wellbeing. We are dedicated to leverage new technologies in order to reduce stress and make wellbeing approachable to anyone. We propose a large variety of activities (online and offline) for all types of needs, styles, tastes, and prices. Whether people prefer to solve issues on their own by reading, enjoy meeting other people to share their experience, or even receive practical tools from experts, Viivas offers them very flexible options so that they can find what suits them the most. We also provide tools and inform our users about offline workshops to improve their wellbeing, learn about mindfulness and personal development. | 20 | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly) | For now, I guess the positive feedback from users regarding their relationships with their emotional wellbeing expert as well as the progress they made between before and after using our services will tell us a lot about the net positive benefits we are giving to our users. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | No thank you! I hope we will be able to collaborate in order to help people live better lives and spend their time better. | |||||||||||||
14 | 3/30/2017 9:40:01 | MYOLO | www.myolo.in | Manan Rathore, co-founder | manan@myolo.in | We are an online/offline platform that aims to connect with like-minded people via our app and to get them to do things together in reality at interest-based events in a safe and fun manner. The aim is to help spark conversations and build real connections over shared interested. There's just too many of virtual connections and virtual sharing going on that is leading to varied forms of isolation, societal disconnects and even stress-related illnesses. We believe friends, conversations and real experiences are what keep us going and are core to the human experience, at least as we know it and as seen important to our individual and combined happiness and growth, and that's what we are after in an age where technology is really hurting those prospects. | The idea is to blend the online with the offline. We essentially screen profiles of people on the app and host interest-based events for them to meet new people and do things together with. Our design decisions are always based on the answer to the question - will it lead towards building a real connection - either in form of connecting two people via the messenger who are then prompted ideas for real/offline activities that they could together indulge or in the form of suggesting interest-based events that they can attend to meet new people and converse with. We've introduced a Anti-swipe detainer to demotivate people to judge people on basis of the first photo they see and pass on the profile. If a user takes less than 3 seconds to take a decision on a profile repeatedly, then they are put on a hibernate mode and cannot see anymore profiles for a fix period of time. For all people who attend our events, they can get on the app and join the event they attended (free or ticketed) and can therefore connect with other people who were at that same event with them. This helps when sometimes people may not get to speak to everyone and even to start a conversation if you forgot to ask for their number. However, mutual interest is required for the conversation to flow. We're also working on lots more things to bridge the online/offline gap and keep things real by introducing more result-oriented online interactions that lead to real offline meetings and activities. | ~5k users | 1-10 people | Freemium, Sponsored Content, Paid events and offline partnerships | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | We are seed-funded startup based in New Delhi, India. | ||||||||||||||
15 | 3/8/2017 17:40:10 | Abett | http://www.abett.com | Mike Hanlon | mike@abett.com | Can we build tools to help people make better decisions? By better, we mean decisions that are fundamentally in their interest, versus the interest of a third party like an advertiser. | Our data works 24 hours a day, but it seems to rarely work for us. We want to build a service that puts people's data to work for them. The benefits of our product is that our users, who we call our patrons, will get (1) data to help make decisions that are important to them; and (2) the opportunity to help other people in a meaningful way. Voting on people's questions is like holding the door open for a stranger. We hope to create a real human moment for people, but still you don't want to spend all day holding the door open for people. We view the time people spend on our service as a cost, not a benefit. We want to maximize the aforementioned benefits while minimizing the costs. | Not enough, but we launched just a couple weeks ago | 1-10 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly) | The number of people each day who made a better decision (a decision in their interest) because of the tools and the platform we provided. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | For more information about our motivation, please see www.abett.com/about | |||||||||||||
16 | 2/22/2017 21:57:00 | minutiae | http://www.minutiae-app.org/ | Daniel J Wilson | daniel.j.wilson@gmail.com | How can we remember the moments our brain fails to record? | minutiae developed out of the first museum led incubator, NEW INC, based out of the New Museum in New York (so much new-ness). minutiae has no venture capital, it is funded by an arts grant and the good will of a design firm (UsTwo) that partnered with us on the project. minutiae is not interested in maximizing downloads or user engagement. minutiae is a time-delimited app. It lasts 1440 days and then you are done. minutiae is an attempt to reframe and remember the mundane moments that form the bulk of our lives. | 1-10 people | Paid Download | We are aware that minutiae is not for everyone - that's not the goal. Simply the fact that it costs $15 to download (we called Apple to try and have them let us charge $14.40...no dice) means that we are eliminating huge numbers of potential downloads. But that's okay. Our aim is that the people that actually download it truly want it. And that they form the basis of a small but dedicated community that is invested in the project (even if that investment, after the initial purchase, is only a few seconds each day). | ||||||||||||||||
17 | 2/19/2017 15:32:54 | Auxy | http://auxy.co | Henrik Lenberg, CEO | henrik@auxy.co | How can we get more people to create the music they want to hear? | We optimize for creative flow and remove as many distractions and as much friction as possible. The quality of our app is measured by the quality and quantity of music people make with it. Our design principles are: When in doubt, simplify - and - If it's not better for the user, don't do it. | 50k | 1-10 people | Freemium | Time spent on meaningful creation. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent" | Great initiative! | |||||||||||||
18 | 2/14/2017 4:03:10 | wetransfer.com | wetransfer.com | damian bradfield | damian@wetransfer.com | We enable the effortless transfer of creative ideas from one to many. We want to help our users get in, and stay in, their creative flow – that strange and beautiful state where everything comes together and great things happen. | We have no sign up. We don't spam. We have a small data policy. | 45million unique users per month | 11 - 100 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly), Advertising | We measure through trust. We will start measuring through time saved. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | ||||||||||||||
19 | 1/28/2017 7:13:51 | Jack | http://www.jack.media | Michel Tombroff, CEO | michel@jack.media | In an online world saturated with instant and ephemeral gratifications, how can we help people rediscover the pleasure of anticipation? | In an online world saturated with instant and ephemeral gratifications, our mission is to become the primary communication platform to create or to experience the pleasure of anticipation. Jack is a messaging app that combines anticipation, patience and rewards. Jack allows you to send text, photo and/or video messages and decide when these can be read. While a message is delivered instantly, the recipient must wait before the message can be read: it can be any hours, days, weeks, months or even more. We call this “Time Will Tell”. | ~20K | 1-10 people | Freemium | Success for Jack is when people tell us that by using our app they rediscover the pleasure and virtue of waiting and patience. One customer one day told us "Jack has become my daily yoga" - and that made our day. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | Our ambition is to expand Jack not just as a messaging platform, but as a comprehensive media platform where people enjoy slow communications of all kind. | |||||||||||||
20 | 1/14/2017 10:06:28 | norm | thenormapp.com | Jacques Achille, CEO | jacques@thenormapp.com | Can we turn philanthropy into a social norm? | Ideally, we don't even want people to log into our app. We want them to spend their time pursuing their passion. Instead we want to make the brands that people use more accountable by having them donate a small portion to charity on behalf of each of their customers by creating a marketing approach based on positive impact. | 500 | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly), We process and track corporate donations | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | |||||||||||||||
21 | 12/28/2016 15:32:28 | Pionear | http://www.pionear.io | Florian Geerken, CEO | florian@pionear.io | How can we help people find the right place, at the right time? | By using Pionear people get a impression on what is going on around them, or on a location they plan to visit. We use images plotted on a map to show people what kind of vibe thy might expect. By staying far away from comments, rating or discussions we hope to inspire people to go and have a look for themselves. By using real time data, we encourage people to put their phone down as quickly as possible, and go pioneer by themselves. Also by skipping advertisement and just allowing users to 'follow' the brands they choose themselves, users will only receive messages they actually care for. | We hope to launch a first version of our app in 2 months. | 1-10 people | Freemium | In a way we really got inspired by the way CouchSurfing measures their success (we found you guys by researching this). If we really help people finding the right place at the right time, returning users are very important. They will only come back if we really help them. Besides this we try to get people to stay in the app for the shortest amount of time as possible. The pictures, and thus what is happing around our users quickly get old. The sooner they act on the content provided by us, the better their experience will be. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | Great initiative! Looking forward to learn and hopefully contribute. | |||||||||||||
22 | 12/19/2016 8:40:21 | SIGHTLESS TOUCH | www.inpris.co | Nissan Yaron | nissan@inprisltd.com | Our mission is to enable people to control their touchscreen in the car while keeping their eyes on the road with minimum effort and distraction. With our technology, they don't need to focus on the screen anymore, nor distract yourself with bulky voice commands. Unlike other solutions that tries to keep your attention with the device, SIGHTLESS TOUCH relies on its speed, efficiency, and sightless operation, to release you from the device ASAP to makes sure that when they are driving, you can focus just on driving. | We measure our success by minimizing the time that it takes to operate our system, and by freeing your eyes to look at what matters. | 1-10 people | Paid Download | Success would be a public statistics that will show that drivers that have SIGHTLESS TOUCH in their car, are less likely to be involved in a car accident and so to decrease human-related car accidents. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Online Course | I am so proud of you guys, this is an amazing project. Well done! | ||||||||||||||
23 | 12/11/2016 20:30:34 | Merge | http://stephaniejuall.com/app-work/ | Stephanie Juall | stephaniejuall@gmail.com | How can we make it easier for artists to collaborate? | In the midst of a capitalistic society, my app aims to help artists/creatives find other likeminded individuals to collaborate with on projects. | 1-10 people | Freemium | Success in my eyes, is measured by the number of new friendships created, because in my opinion, we learn about ourselves through the meaningful and insightful interactions we have with the people around us. So by generating more friendships, we can increase the chances that we help people learn more about themselves. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | I want to help artists because I am singer myself, and after struggling for months and months to connect with other musicians through mediums such as Facebook, Linkedin, and Craigslist, I realized that there must be a better and easier way to find other like-minded individuals to collaborate with. Social networking for careers in finance and business etc, is focused on much more than for careers in the arts and I want to change that. | ||||||||||||||
24 | 12/1/2016 20:38:55 | Freedom | https://freedom.to | Fred Stutzman, CEO | fred@freedom.to | How can we give people an extra hour of deep work each day? | We're helping people increase their focus and reduce distractions, so they can do better quality work and, ultimately, achieve their goals. We're still a very small company so we don't have anything groundbreaking organizationally, but we've certainly brought human-centered and value-sensitive design into our product. | 300,000 | 1-10 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly) | Our goal is to give people 30-60 minutes of higher quality work time a day. That is, deeply focused time where people can get their best work done. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course, Partnerships | Would love to support this very worthwhile cause! We're all in on this idea and have been working in the space since 2008. | |||||||||||||
25 | 12/1/2016 10:17:44 | OURHUB | http://www.ourhub.dk/#reinvent | Caroline de Francqueville Hansen, co-founder | caroline@ourhub.dk | How can we create more spontaneous encounters and conversations between strangers in public spaces? | First of all, our service is both analog and digital. We have built a sharing platform, using social objects as conversation starters to help people connect around playful or active experiences in public spaces. Our platform is filled with tech and linked to an app with a social algorithm, facilitating real-life encounters by lowering the "shyness barrier". The analog dimension of our service is crucial for us as we want to create more meeting opportunities for people in public spaces. The social objects we select need to comply to what we called "Made for Sharing". In short, 1 / they need to be robust to be shared among many people, 2/ they need to be social, which is to say that they have to function as "conversation starters", 3 / they need to be of very high design quality to guarantee the best user experience. Though we are a company, we want to create a real social impact in cities. We share a common vision with local governments, planning agencies,... who try to "reclaim the streets" to create more life between buildings and pay more attention to the human scale. We are currently trying to design an evaluation protocol whose goal will be to assess the social impact a solution like OurHub can have on our cities and public spaces. | We are launching our service (beta test) in march, but we have sold our solution to three different types of actors in Copenhagen. | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly) | We don't yet but this is one of the reason I'm writing to you now as we are trying to build some tools. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | ||||||||||||||
26 | 11/30/2016 17:44:31 | Daily JOMO | www.dailyjomo.com | Christina Crook, Founder | christina@jomobook.com | How can we live with more space, play, connection and joy? | 1-10 people | Freemium | We measure success by minimizing the amount of time people are spending on screens and improving the depth and quality of that time by (re)connecting them to people and projects they love. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | I am the author of The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World and a TEDx speaker (Letting Go of Technology: Pursuing a People-focused Future.) My desire is to create/co-create resources and strategies for putting people first in a digital world. I have a number of products in development and speak on the topic of technology and human flourishing. I would love to explore ways of working together and would be grateful if Tristan and team would be willing to help spread the word about DailyJOMO. Warmly, Christina Crook | |||||||||||||||
27 | 11/30/2016 8:58:23 | Whim | joinwhim.com | Eve Peters, Founder & CEO | eve@trywhim.com | How can we help people find meaningful connections - and sometimes love - with ease and delight? | Our KPI (key performance indicator) is number of actual dates per week. All the other dating apps are optimizing for swipes and minutes spent on-screen. Whim is an app that eliminates aimless swiping and endless messaging, and sends users out on actual face-to-face dates instead. Whim users are 7x more likely to meet their matches in real life compared with other apps - and they spend a lot less screen time getting there. | 2,500 | 1-10 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly), Venture Backed (still figuring it out), Equity crowdfunding on Republic.co + support from 500 Startups and Angels | Hours spent enjoying the magic of face-to-face connection. Hours spent being present with another real person, instead of getting a tiny endorphin hit from matching online with a stranger you'll never know. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Speaking opportunities. | I am passionate about using technology to help people connect offline. This was my work at my first startup, at OkCupid Labs (through Crashpad - a housemate and apartment discovery web app), and currently at Whim. Would love to be involved in this movement! | |||||||||||||
28 | 11/30/2016 0:49:47 | diem | https://everydiem.com | Miguel Sanchez-Grice | msanchezgrice@gmail.com | Our mission is to help people get more out of their free time. We think too many people either fail to plan, or fall for cheap distractions, in their free time so we try to tip our users to action through personalized, actionable, inspiring content. We think busy professionals, if they live more fulfilling personal lives, will be better at work but more importantly better members of society. Only when one feels balanced and in control of their lives (on all fronts) can they have ambition to pursue that next goal or help others pursue theirs. | Coming from Zynga we know exactly what it means to design for empty calorie engagement...from day 1 we decided to not use those engagement tactics and build for real value. Our mission is to help people get more out of their free time and this primarily means providing helpful information that is actionable. From the way we work to the KPIs we pursue, everything has the goal of encouraging more primarily offline actions. | Under 10k (beta launched this month) | 11 - 100 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | We think of it in terms of experiences triggered. So our product is about suggestion amazing things people can do in their free time, whether it be pursue a health goal, try a new restaurant, learn how to mediate, or even just go and check out a new neighborhood or hike. Our tips are personalized and ALWAYS actionable so we can directly measure how many offline experiences we trigger. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Online Course | We'd love more suggestions about how we can build this thinking into our team and roadmap. | |||||||||||||
29 | 11/29/2016 10:09:18 | YOU-app | http://you-app.com | Nelli Lahteenmaki, CEO & Co-Founder | nelli@you-app.com | How might we make billions of people happier and healthier? | Inspire personal development and behavior change in the real word. YOU-app is all about small actions, 'micro-actions', for a happier, healthier life. Actions like "Find beauty around you", "Do a micro-workout", "Add greens to a meal", "Smile at a stranger”. We condense the world’s top knowledge on health and happiness into concrete, easy-to-complete micro-actions. Get a micro-action or create your own, complete it, snap a picture and share with the community! One of our core values is: "If you love them, let them go" - We only have a limited number of micro-actions people can do per day - YOU-app micro-actions send people out from the mobile world – reaching out to a friend, going for a walk, experiencing the world. Not ”reading the next action” - We want to encourage our users to do meaningful action: It’s not just a tick mark and you’re done – greater impact comes from taking a picture and writing a little reflection Here's our manifesto: https://you-app.com/manifesto | 40k MAUs | 1-10 people | Freemium, Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | At this moment, the data and metrics we using are: - MAUs - # of completed micro-actions - Surveys on the impact of doing micro-actions - Qualitative feedback we get through the thousands of testimonials we have received via app & support We are, however looking for our ONE key success metric (that includes the net positive benefit) and look forward to learning from each other within the TWS community! | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | Thanks so much for creating this movement. Big love from Finland! | |||||||||||||
30 | 11/26/2016 4:17:04 | Minimal Disruption | http://minimaldisruption.com | Micka Touillaud, CEO | micka.touillaud@me.com | How can our digital lives coordinated themselves with our way of life? | Our mission is to make technology the more human and unobtrusive as possible allowing our attention to stay on the things and people that really matter, without being disconnected or interrupted. We are a dedicated team of developers and designers working on the first hand, on an open source SDK that will gather all our technology inputs and, on the other hand, on a simple self assembly design product that naturally fit to our houses, with a simple and durable aesthetic. This simple and affordable hardware product aims to adapts to each of the house occupants with privacy by design principle at the heart of it's conception as well as durable and natural materials. | Actually in pre-orders & in personal control (no investors desired at this point) | 1-10 people | Freemium, Freemium app & hardware product sell at $59 to expand it's possibilities | The more you use Eclipse, the more it knows you and your (changing) habits. At the beginning you give it some contextual input, at the end, you just have to be in the room where you want your digital to be optimized. Our success metrics is the minimum time you have to use Eclipse app to be set. It means the less you use the app, the better it is for us and for you. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course, I work next to the Linkedin tower in SF, what about a coffee or a launch together? | I'm also part of the Mangrove family, I know you've succesfully help Maxime, Adrien and all the team in Germany this summer, unfortunately I wasn't been able to join you, but hope to see you Wednesday for their official US launch or around a coffee downtown! Micka | |||||||||||||
31 | 11/26/2016 2:32:48 | Timyo | www.timyo.com | Fabrice (Founder & CEO) | fabrice@timyo.com | Our mission question is provided by the name of the company: Timyo... which means Time IS My Own... and our mission is to save time for millions people bt bringing a completely new dimension into email. The missing peace of "time" so people could send email with clear expectation and let recipient focus on what really matters. | It is not designed for Time Well Spent it is done for Time Well Spent. | >20K (but we are still focusing to release a better product) | 11 - 100 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | My dream would be to be able to measure success by lowering the stress provided by email as it is today. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | Have a look at our blog if you want to dive into our mission (and especially on our Manifesto for better email (http://www.timyo.com/blog/manifesto-better-email/) | |||||||||||||
32 | 11/13/2016 18:21:49 | Stories Lived | http://www.StoriesLived.com/ | Joe Snider, Co-Founder | Joe@StoriesLived.com | In a world where media is shaped by the negative, how might we be a hub for positive stories of every day people that inspire and connect with people on a personal level to create positive change in the world? | One aspect is, while we need advertising to survive, we consider advertising a part of our overall mission. We seek advertising partners whose missions are aligned generally with our overall mission, and we cater specific page advertising to the subjects in particular stories. We try to avoid the unrelated and random "University of Phoenix" advertising next to a story about adopting AIDS babies in South Africa (We are still trying to figure out a mobile ad alternative to Facebook's Audience Network though which is a challenge...). We also state clearly to our audience that the purpose is to come to our site, be inspired, and then go off into the world to take action. We want to inspire people and motivate them to DO something and get off their devices, but come back for more when they need another boost. | 5K | 1-10 people | Advertising | We have thought about this a little, and probably it would be in hours of video watched. A long term goal might be to track follow up stories of what people did as a result of visiting our site...how the site motivated them to action, or changed their life in some way. But we are still getting the basic content going, so we aren't there yet! | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | ||||||||||||||
33 | 11/4/2016 23:34:24 | Tech-Relief | Tech-Relief.org | Barbara Lewis Marco human/artist/author | info@barbaralewismarco.com | When we are caught in the vortex of technology, how might we come back to our senses? | You might call this a kind of "Analog App," designed to get us out of our minds, take a break from our computers and devices, and come back to our senses. It is one way to help us hang on to our humanity. What is Tech-Relief? We love technology. It’s awe-inspiring. The digital world has become our parallel universe, and we are spending more and more time there working, creating, playing, and communicating. However, the virtual world exists only as pixels on a screen, and we tend to immerse ourselves so thoroughly and for so long that we frequently (and literally) disconnect from our real world senses in the process. We start to feel stressed and unbalanced. Tech-relief is a simple antidote. It is about coming to our senses. It brings us out of the virtual world, back into our bodies, and into the present moment. It does this by stimulating the five senses. The Tech-Relief box contains a variety of things to play with, to touch, smell, taste, and hear. All of it analog. Keep it by your computer to take breaks during long work sessions, or to unplug anytime. (If you are interested in a PDF that shows you more about Tech-Relief just email me at blmarco@icloud.com or info@barbaralewismarco.com) Tech-relief was designed and developed by two artist/educators who believe that helping our fellow humans in whatever way seems right for each person is important, and who believe that our shared humanity needs to be balanced with our technology. We would be willing to donate 50% of sales to Time Well Spent or other non-profits. | 0 | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | Sales. ( If it is utilized next to more and more computers, and helps people feel more balanced.) | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | I have spent many years running an art program for children with cancer and children with neurological disabilities as part of a humanism in medicine program at Columbia Medical School. I worked in hospice bedside for eight years as well. (Illness and death are humanity's great equalizers, but surely we can express our shared humanity in other than dire circumstances!) My own illustrated books for adults are about coping with difficulties in life with a sense of humor. (Perhaps the most important sense!) Contributing toward helping to keep the humanity in all aspects our lives in whatever small way I can is part of what makes my own life meaningful. The Tech-Relief project is a way to keep us in touch with ourselves during the workday (or night) where most of us are sucked non-stop into the vortex of online reality. It just tries to give us a break and bring us back into what makes us human. We have been looking into ways to realize this project, but the capital needed to manufacture and do it ourselves is beyond our reach, but probably pretty small by venture standards. Then there is distribution. We have thought that publishers might be interested, but when I heard about TWS I thought it would be more meaningful if it were part of an overall movement of change and awareness. I wish we had the means to manufacture it and even give it away. Now that's my crazy artist idealist talking. She is still there after all these years, but I've been around long enough to know when to bring her back to earth when needed. Please let me know if you'd like to know more or if you have any feedback at all. Thanks so much. Barbara | |||||||||||||
34 | 11/3/2016 22:19:53 | Shareity | www.shareity.me | Melanie Katz, Marketing Manager | mkatz@shareity.me | How can use the power of social sharing to make the world a better place for underserved people and communities? | We go beyond social media to help charities engage their donors through gamification, encouraging repeat donations and nurturing relationships. Through our partnerships with nonprofits and their donors, we strive to get the most donations directly to charitable causes as possible. | 1-10 people | Sponsored Content | We measure success in the amount of people who challenge their social connections to give back to nonprofits through donating, volunteering or taking part in charity challenges. We are currently working on an in-app, gamified representation of this for our next version that will help users visualize their social impact for good. | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | Our most popular charity challenge is the St. Jude "Share a Smile" challenge. When users take a smile of themselves smiling on the Shareity app, we give $1 to the cause. Our goal is to raise a million smiles and a million dollars for this amazing charity. | ||||||||||||||
35 | 11/1/2016 19:30:30 | ImagineAllBetter app for smartphones. | http://www.imagineallbetter.com/ | Dr. Richard Crowley | info@imagineallbetter.com | How do we help people to free themselves from the SOURCE of their frustrating emotions and unwanted behaviors? | Our unique approach PERMANENTLY frees people from frustrating emotions and unwanted behaviors without any analyses, understanding or advice necessary. Our success rate is over 90% with an average 20-minute session. | 500 | 1-10 people | Paid Download | We measure where people exit the app and how long they spend in it to achieve their intent. (There is only one exit point for a successful completion.) | Our app is "Time Well Spent" because it provides on-demand stress relief that frees us permanently from the daily issues that we all struggle with. | ||||||||||||||
36 | 10/30/2016 17:26:55 | Kindeo | www.kindeo.com | Seb Royce, co-founder | seb@kindeo.com | How might we help families learn from one another and feel closer? | We help the older generation create content with real value for their family | approx. 3000 | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | In a world of throw-away content we want to help people create content whose value lasts for generations. | ||||||||||||||
37 | 10/27/2016 13:37:38 | Soaring Heart Natural Bed | Www.soaringheart.com | Mike Schaefer, CEO | mike@soaringheart.com | How can we all sleep better? How can our 35 years experience in hand-crafting all organic bedding translate into better, less distracted sleep (tonight)? | Anyone can make a mattress. We offer access to products and services caringly crafted to allow people to sleep in ways proven to be more restorative to your health. | We have 35 years of loyal customers and about 3000 Followers in our social media databases. | 11 - 100 people | Retail sales both web and brick and mortar | Sales, referrals and testimonials. (Note: We seek more measures willingly offered by our customers). | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Retail/website network opportunities | Poor sleep is a key indicator of distraction gone wild. We see people everyday seeking help and are intrigued by the opportunity of linking our experience with organic product design with "organic" digital design. Sign us up for more connection! | |||||||||||||
38 | 10/23/2016 23:36:11 | Lilspace | http://lilspaceapp.com/ | Kim Cavallo, CEO/Founder | kim@lilspaceapp.com | What would the world look like if we had a social network and built an online community that supports being focused on the people, places and activities right in front of us (a mindfulness "Fitbit")? LilSpace provides a technology tool that allows us to "auto reply" and communicate while we are not communicating which gives relief of the anxious impulse to keep checking our phones. | Time Well Spent is bringing awareness around the need for communication interruptions to be more conscious. TWS is focused on building higher quality relationships. LilSpace aims to enhance communication by leading the shift away from the expectation of immediate replies to texts and calls. The expectation to immediately reply disrupts our personal and business lives. What sets the LilSpace app apart from other auto-reply apps is that 1) it is very simple to use, 2) it responds to both texts AND calls, and 3) we will build a community of Users to support the shift away from expecting immediate replies. | Soft launched with a few test Users. | 1-10 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly), Sponsored Content, Strategic partnerships with businesses/organizations with focus on health & wellness | LilSpace would love to develop a measurement of time spent being focused on the people, places and activities right in front of us. LilSpace's current plan is to measure success by the size of the User community we build that will support each other turning on LilSpace and taking time to focus on the people, places and activities right in front of them (mindfulness "Fitbit"). We will also measure success in the number of strategic partners we engage (health/wellness businesses & service providers + mindful corporations/schools). | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course, Connecting with Tristan Harris about an advisory role in developing LilSpace | I have been developing this idea for over 2 years and set out initially to solve a problem for myself. Finding Time Well Spent and learning about Tristan Harris by watching the TED talk and listening to his recent radio show (KPPC 10/18), has enhanced my vision and accelerated my drive to grow the LilSpace movement. I would love to connect with Tristan Harris and his team. | |||||||||||||
39 | 10/23/2016 19:27:14 | Digital Detox Challenge | Ddc.urbandroid.org | David Mierau | davemierau@gmail.com | How can we help people turn off their screens and turn on their lives? | We use the problem (the device) to help solve the problem. | 1-10 people | Freemium, Monetary consequence for quitting the detox early. | deliberate disengagement, awareness, reflection, and pattern change | Thanks for your work! | |||||||||||||||
40 | 10/21/2016 22:49:31 | Qbserve | https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/ | Ivan Mir | ivan@qotoqot.com | How can we make everyone's life simpler? | It literally tracks if the time is well spent but also gives users freedom from subscription being a classic paid app. | 1000+ | 1-10 people | Paid Download | Reducing stress and frustration, creating more compassionate and mindful society. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent" | ||||||||||||||
41 | 10/21/2016 6:24:33 | Veils of Reality | www.veilsofreality.com | Michael Branch, Concept | michaelcbranch@gmail.com | How does the sense of reality we are conditioned to limit our ability to perceive and respond to negative feedback our actions receive in our attempts to survive and be happy? | Because everyone thinks they are right, by discussing unconscious factors that align us more with how we already see, as opposed to with the evolving journey toward collective solutions, the tool will give us the opportunity to see how our good intentions and efforts may be exhausted if we have not fully accounted for how we may be trying to fix the world with the same weapons that broke it. TWS is a philosophy that is very respectful of users and their needs. To reiterate, the connection that I see between it and Veils of Reality is that VoR is attempting to find ways to bring us into alignment with ourselves, to make visible the ways in which we obstruct the change we want, unconsciously. | 1-10 people | Donation-based / Pay-What-You-Can | this project can be thought of as between generations is that its meant as an intervention at the point of rebuilding, Success for Veils of Reality would be a cultural reset, an era of personal transparency where en masse we are able to see the ubiquity of naturally evolving but ultimately limiting ways of understanding the world, and their role in our cycles of tragedy. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | I read the Binge Breaker article in The Atlantic several hours ago and wanted to write to you, as I really appreciate what you've done and what you're trying to do. I'm an outsider, an existential exile, also 32, went to Berkeley, I don't have Facebook or use a smartphone but I think to an extent it's a generational thing, having the perspective to notice that something has happened. Its hard to introduce myself because there are many layers of experiences and education that have led to me standing sort of perpendicular to our society which are rather unique. That is, it may take slightly longer for my intended meaning to become visible because its resting on a lot of context that I can't assume is shared. So I hope you'll bear with me because I'm working on something that, even if it's lacking in polish, is high on concept, dead-on in terms of the pertinence of its direction, and lastly, I suspect, right up your alley. I'm writing because I've been in the woods long enough to find things, to make a case for a reality, an alternate story of human nature, human possibility, that is in a window in time that I think, in part, social media platforms and smartphone culture is closing. I'm in India now, 5 years after the first time, and like the contrast between my first Burning man and my last there is something in the experience of everyday moments and interactions that perhaps someone only a few years younger than us wouldn't notice is gone. As someone who didn't come to the culture of mindfulness from the business angle of becoming a stronger employee, but also as a social entrepreneur this worries me because there are things that I know take time to reach us--we take time to reach ourselves--and because younger people now fill every intervening moment with compulsive swiping I don't think they have the same opportunity to ever get below the surface of layer of their thoughts, and larger ideas--any that attempts to build a bridge between the status-quo and possibilities outside it--don't develop, are psychologically swiped past perhaps out of the reflex of immediate gratification. The average now is that people stop reading articles after 500 words? I imagine you have heard of Vipassana? The confrontation it establishes with the momentum of our society, expressed in our inability to be still, provides an opportunity to see just how unlikely it is that any sort of unpleasant medicine will reach us. From the Vipassana perspective, we have deeply laid psychological grooves that constitute the path of least resistance, to grasp pleasure and flee pain at every moment. If the problems we can't seem to overcome, as a society, as a species, aren't merely limitations of technology, aren't simply bad people, human nature, but are shown to have roots leading painfully back to each of us, we will be gone before we ever knew what it was that came knocking. And that is precisely my analysis, though its not a problem of who we are but rather: how we see. This project is an attempt to create a mutation in the cultural genome, so to speak, to allow us to be more versatile in responding to the feedback Reality is giving us by pulling things that tend to be mistaken as human nature into our spectrum of cause and effect and giving us a choice. I'm writing to you because I may not be able to continue much longer. I have a nerve problem that makes it almost impossible for me to be comfortable, or even sleep. Beyond how the experiment I've made of my life has left me with no skills and no work experience, I'm physically incapable of enduring work that is either sitting-based or standing-based, because of the pain. More than that I couldn't accept personal progress that is detached from the fate of the earth and society in the way most jobs are. I understand we are more or less forced to sell out to survive, but in surrendering to that I would have been unable to see, and I hope you'll get the reference here, that: "this is water". And though I had amazing experiences and have known so many intelligent, interesting, fun, thoughtful, ethical people, I don't think our culture is, yet, self-reflective to a deep enough extent for any of those things to cure us of a toxic profit and ego-oriented way of life. I'm onto something but I don't have the money, resources, network, talent or energy to last much longer. I wanted someone else with vision to have a chance to see what it is I'm looking at, even for a moment. I was never sure whether the Veils of Reality would be the thing that clicks, there is so much, namely my convoluted writing, working against it, but I am sure that if enough people with vision and values like you have, can see what it is pointing at, that it could lead to whatever technology of perspective does eventually help engender a culture that has tools to stay awake, to adapt, to enjoy where we are and what we have, to come home. If you have the time I hope you will consider exploring www.veilsofreality.com There are many sections, all of which approach the theme in different ways. Or if you know anyone who might be interested, including researchers, graphic designers, editors, please feel free to spread the word. Thank you | ||||||||||||||
42 | 10/20/2016 3:08:47 | smol tok card game | www.starknicked.com | Nick Pang | starknicked@gmail.com | How can we make every conversation as meaningful as possible for the people participating in that conversation? How can we improve the quality of our conversations? | starknicked's mission is to create meaningful conversations as a means of creating meaningful relationships. The smol tok card game consists of open-ended questions that go deep on the meaning and value of life/work/play that can be adapted to conversations between pairs, within groups, or for larger audiences broken down into smaller dyads or triads. Further expansions will delve deeper into specific areas of life. | 1000 | 1-10 people | Sales | number of meaningful conversations and questions sparked | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Online Course | Big inspiration from Socrates and Viktor Frankl. | |||||||||||||
43 | 10/17/2016 4:10:16 | Wuxia the fox Storyworld | http://www.wuxiathefox.com | Jonathan Bélisle | jonathan@helloarchitekt.com | Augment Kids undivided attention in class and give people the love of reading. | It's a film in which you are the narrator. You speak aloud and the continuous voice recognition activate interactive scenes, music and sounds. | 10 000 | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly), Sponsored Content, Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", I am a calm computing ambassador | Check helloarchitekt.com my Educational Design & Experience Architecture Consultancy. | ||||||||||||||
44 | 10/17/2016 16:43:50 | http://beautifulfaces.co | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facedetection.kv.facedetection | Arup Sarkar | sarkar.arup@gmail.com | How quickly can I engage and disengage my user but get the job done quickly during engagement which I should be able to measure in seconds. | My product is a selfie app which is a popular activity in smartphone, my whole idea was to detect optimum beautiful faces quickly, automatically take a picture and share it instantly. I quantified without human intervention of clicking and deciding let computers decide and at 125 frames per second scanning it beats human. | 1-10 people | Freemium, Paid Download, Advertising | 1) User satisfaction | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | |||||||||||||||
45 | 10/15/2016 9:01:58 | TightOps | https://tightops.com | Nico Appel | i@nicoappel.com | Help people get to communicate and collaborate more efficiently in order to be able to create and build better products and services. | TightOps provides a structure (and training) to further empathy in communication and reduce misunderstanding and stress. | At this point, less than 100. | 1-10 people | Freemium | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | |||||||||||||||
46 | 10/12/2016 14:16:45 | RevivAll | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.revivall.app | Nadia James, Founder & CEO | nadia@revivallapp.com | How can we help people live healthier, happier lives together? | Our goal is to connect our users with virtual and *local* health support communities. We don't want people to inform themselves in isolation, or miss out on the psychological and physical health benefits of human connection. | 0 - the android app is available but we have done 0 marketing. We will be launching a community partner pilot this fall. | 1-10 people | Sponsored Content, clinical/drug trial recruitment, market research, branded groups, event recruitment | Patient health outcome improvements. We plan to conduct studies on the impact of app usage on our users' (patients/caregivers) health literacy, access to care, disease management and self care, and overall health outcomes | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | I'm glad that this type of movement exists, and would love to be part of this community of likeminded tech founders. It makes me more hopeful about where society is heading! Thank you Tristan and others involved in organizing the advocacy group for recognizing that we have a problem, and trying to incite change. | |||||||||||||
47 | 10/11/2016 22:21:13 | www.opentimeapp.com | www.opentimeapp.com | Raj Daniels | raj.daniels@opentimeapp.com | Connecting people offline is my overarching mission. I spend a lot of time in the Dallas area sharing a similar message to yours. I believe that too much emphasis has been put in to virtual relationships and that people are suffering for it. I liken connecting with someone online as 'standing on their shadow and saying that you know them.' | Our entire platform is designed to show who in your community is available to meet. Our initial market is co-working spaces in Dallas because they have an early adopter mentality and they understand community so it has allowed us to get some initial traction here locally. We measure success by the number of meetings our platform facilitates. | ~600 | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly) | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | I love what you're doing and am not ashamed to say so. As a father of 3 young daughters I want them to grow up in a world realizing the real value of in person relationships and not fall for the likes and hollow follows. Additionally, if you listen to any of the interviews I've done you'll see that I too have all my notifications on my phone turned off except for the instant messages just in case it's from my wife/family. I'd really appreciate the opportunity to chat with you to see if there's an opportunity to collaborate and change the world together. P.S. see my thoughts here http://www.rajdaniels.com/dont-just-google-it/ | ||||||||||||||
48 | 9/29/2016 18:47:28 | leadyourtime.com | Online Traing to help your spend your time well | Joop Korver, Sr.Consultant | jpkorver@leadyourtime.com | How can we help the modern person to first generate space and time, then to use that space for your life's passions? Our aim is to develop a Personal Life System which helps you manage the trivia, and recreates the opportunity to focus on the things that matter in your life. | Our primairy objective is clear. We subsequently measure the results, and continously use the user's feedback to improve on our services. | 750 | 1-10 people | Paid Download | We use 2 operational variables that helps us commercially: time spent on e-mail management per day + number of messages in your inbox. More importantly, we use 2 variables to measure our performance to our objective: feeling of controle and feeling of overview | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", any mutal effort support our common objective | ||||||||||||||
49 | 9/27/2016 16:14:10 | www.facebook.com/HetBuitenland | http://www.hetbuitenland.nl | Marijn Vereijken | hetbuitenland@xs4all.nl | designing sustainable green gardens that are also visualy attractive | 1-10 people | Advertising | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent" | |||||||||||||||||
50 | 9/27/2016 10:56:47 | Livemobility | www.livemobility.com | Wouter de Valk | wouter@livemobility.com | We believe humanity faces an enormous challenge to reduce our impact on our environment. What - Want to save some time to save the world? Step one: we provide a barrier free tool on iOS and Android to automatically track trips to provide insight into trips and its impact. Use this tool to provide a unified source of all types of personal transport (fow now excl. airtravel) and provide a simple tool for expense reports Step two: move beyond businesses and provide a useful tool to the general public, for free. | Choices are influenced - yes - but aimed at improving the impact of transportation towards more healthy efforts and less unhealthy exhausts, while at the same time providing commercial providers a platform for their product towards the relevant targetgroups. | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly) | Time spent on admin work, CO2 per distance travelled, Calories burnt. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Online Course | |||||||||||||||
51 | 9/11/2016 16:40:43 | O clock displaying time through colour | http://www.oclock.ws | Wout Wolf | wootwolf@gmail.com | O clock is made to allow people to accept the current moment in time. | I am not a company. I am a designer / artist who works freelance. | # 7 | 1-10 people | Paid Download | If the time spent digitally transcends into a deeper understanding of the physical world. | I just read an interview and thought that your company might be interested in the clock concept I graduated with. Im currently in the process of getting it into production. Not seeking for anything. Was just intrigued by time well spent and thought that you guys might be interested as well. Then I saw that I could submit my app. It is only out for android as Apple does not allow third party developers to create dynamic wallpapers which I think is a pity. | ||||||||||||||
52 | 9/2/2016 16:50:52 | Flamboyant | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.meriel.flamboyant | Nicolas Mériel | nicolas@meriel.info | How can the very first thing billions of people do every morning before anything else (looking at their smartphone screen) be made more beautiful, enjoyable and blissful? | FLAMBOYANT is almost an anti-app. The objective is not to spent more time on your screen but to make your very first screen-experience every morning more beautiful, enjoyable and blissful. It is a carpe diem APP that has only 1 single objective: to show a beautiful and different flower on your lock-screen every single day! | not launched yes (in BETA) | 1-10 people | Freemium | We measure success by number of flowers served. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | What is the next step? When will I hear from you if my APP is Time Well Spent? | |||||||||||||
53 | 9/2/2016 1:32:39 | Pluto Money | gopluto.io | Susie Kim, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer | susie@gopluto.io | How might we help young millennials make more conscious choices with their everyday decisions with money and reach their short/mid-term saving goals? | Pluto isn't about checking how much balance you have left in your bank accounts or your recent transactions. Rather, we focus on actionability through gamification and step-by-step guidance by leveraging contextual data and your personal finances to help you make smarter decisions with everyday spending and see tangible results of those decisions by reaching the goals that matter to you. The app is where you go to set your goals, select challenges and see your progress, but what matters is the decisions you make outside the app; and Pluto is there in the background, to help you every step of the way. | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | How much money our users saved through taking actionable challenges and how many goals they achieved. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course, SF/Silicon Valley Meetups | Our app is about to launch alpha and is nowhere close to what we envision. Our team relies heavily on behavior change and user-centered design and will continue to practice "TWS". Thanks for the resources! | ||||||||||||||
54 | 9/1/2016 19:01:41 | Yotta | yotta.io | Charles Miller | cmiller@yottaforce.co | How can we be truly empathetic with one and another; and our technology with our true selves? | We directly measure attentiveness, engagement, and connection through biometeric sensors - and we use this for good. | Not launched | 11 - 100 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | How many notifications can we queue? | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Adding you as team member | Thank you for your time | |||||||||||||
55 | 8/23/2016 18:04:42 | Mopro.io | https://www.mopro.io | Marc Weistroff, Founder | marc@mopro.io | How can we help artists to connect directly to their audience, without falling in the social networks trap. | We try to design our tools to make them as simple as possible. And we choose to connect artist directly to their community. No algorithm. | 10+ | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly) | networking with like-minded people | |||||||||||||||
56 | 8/23/2016 0:42:44 | Sync - Contact Exchange ---> INDEX | https://appsto.re/us/UE96bb.i | Jordan Gutt, Founder | jordgutt@bu.edu | How might we restore real time, in person social interactions while building a single authenticated "online identity" to bare the burden of connecting with all things internet? | Everyone exchanges contact information, we exchange phone numbers, email address, and social media usernames. Why can't we just exchange our name? Sync - Contact Exchange is an early prototype that consolidates all of our online contact information (name, number, email, website, and various social media accounts) onto a single exchangeable Profile Card. To "sync" with someone, a pair of users simultaneously press a single button and their Profile Cards are exchanged over Bluetooth and added into their "Digital Card Case" as well as added into their phone as a new iPhone contact. This is not a "digital business card." This act of "syncing" with someone to add them to your online sphere, ideally, will become a new type of social etiquette accepted by society for meeting someone you would like to stay in contact with. | 600 Downloads | 1-10 people | Freemium | Net time saved figuring out the logistics of our day. Time saved searching for contact information (restaurants, doctors, retail stores, friends' s home addresses) and time saved responding to unnecessarily complicated online formalities (filling out forms, creating new online accounts, exchanging contact information, make plans with someone). | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | Sync - Contact Exchange is just the first version. I have plans to build a sustainable business around the key feature of exchanging and organizing contact information. A major goal of mine is to simplify and consolidate the simple yet monotonous activities we encounter everyday into one platform. For example, making an appointment for a haircut, reservations for dinner, filling out paperwork in the waiting room of a doctor's office, securely filling out shipping and credit information while buying something online, or just acknowledging that you read and understood a text or email. It is time we start using technology intelligently and have it work for us to do things we shouldn't have to think twice about. | |||||||||||||
57 | 8/15/2016 18:49:18 | Saent | http://download.saent.com/ | Josh Catone (Content & Partnerships) | josh@saent.com | What will be required to empower human intelligence and life fulfillment in the age of algorithms? | Saent is a mindful productivity platform (software+hardware devices). It acts as a virtual coach that helps people find balance, do great work, and live more fulfilling lives by blocking distractions, focusing better, single-tasking, improving goal setting and motivation, and developing healthier work habits. Our overarching goal -- what drives us -- is to help people live more fulfilling lives. We believe that our current tools are broken, often designed to extract more of our time and attention than is healthy and working against our brains rather than with them. The result is overwork, stress, burnout, unhappiness, poor health, and low quality results. We want to help people to do better work while at the same time being happier, healthier, and more fulfilled. We also believe that the future of work lies mainly in creative pursuits -- the kinds of things that humans are uniquely suited to and won't easily be mechanized or defined in a tidy algorithm. We want to prepare people for this "post-work" society. Saent (the company) is a fully remote team, with people spread across three continents. We empower everyone to work autonomously and we have a high degree of trust in one another. We're self-organized according to some of the principles of "Teal" organizations (laid out by Frederic Laloux) -- at least, that's something we strive for. It is a continual learning and improvement process. | ~200 DAU (app soft-launched in public beta in June); we've also sold ~1,400 devices | 1-10 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly), Hardware sales | We're still figuring this out, and it might become more clear as the platform is filled out and we're further along in expressing our vision of helping people take a holistic view of their work/life balance, and empowering them to be happier, more creative, and more fulfilled by work and life. Though it is necessary to track some vanity metrics (like DAU and downloads), it's not how we'd define success. In the short term, we feel successful when Saent users tell us that the app and device are helping help to be more productive, break unhealthy habits, and reclaim their work/life balance. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", We'd love to collaborate on content for Time Well Spent, and we'd also be interested in some sort of formal advisor relationship with Tristan if he'd interested | ||||||||||||||
58 | 8/10/2016 19:03:58 | MOZIK | www.mozik.cc | JINWU HAN, COO | han@datech.cc | We aim at providing and filtering music according to emotions rather than genre/user generated lists. We sift through music and find the best ones suited for a particular emotion so that the users can save time from picking out what they want. | By demonstrating only 5 emotions ( song lists ), we reduce the amount of choices users have to make, but the 5 emotions cover the majority of emotions people can easily express themselves. | 250K | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly), Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | It is difficult for us to measure how long did the user actually listened to the music because all measuring platform treat exiting the app into background as no longer active, but instead the music is continued for many cases. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | ||||||||||||||
59 | 8/4/2016 19:54:33 | Kello | www.getkello.com | Greg Markarian, cofounder & COO | gm@getkello.com | How can we reintegrate technology in all of the basic day to day tasks in a non-obstructive and seamless way, and use it to empower and improve oneself? | We're an alarm clock that helps people become morning persons and get more time in their lives comfortably and progressively. We chose to make it standalone so that it doesn't need to be paired to a phone to wake up the user with his playlists (your phone shouldn't be your alarm clock). We integrated a huge self-improvement side to help people snooze less, wake up earlier, prepare for jetlag, fall asleep fast... | 1-10 people | Classic hardware business model | It's very straightforward: for us, success is measured by the number of users who managed to change even the small thing in their lives thanks to our device. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | We're doing a Kickstarter in mid-September. If you want to have a quick look at our crowdfunding video, here it is (it's still a work in progress and not publicly shared right now so please don't share it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR2znBV-UVY | ||||||||||||||
60 | 8/3/2016 17:59:57 | Inbox When Ready | https://inboxwhenready.org | Peter Hartree | peter@inboxwhenready.org | How can we protect our focus when using Gmail? | Makes Gmail inbox hidden by default, so that you can compose mail and retrieve from achieve without getting distracted. | ~ 50 | 1-10 people | Side project | Number of Gmail sessions where the inbox remains hidden. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course, TWS movement-building | ||||||||||||||
61 | 7/30/2016 2:54:07 | microsoft customer service | WWW.microsoft/support.com | Tony Rietveld | anthonyrietveld@att.net | Get direct answers to my personal product problems. | Retired | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||
62 | 7/29/2016 0:54:56 | padpors | padpors.com | "Faezeh Tamimi, content producer" | tamimifaezeh@gmail.com | How can we prevent of wasting money and time in saving the world? | ~1k | 1-10 people | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | |||||||||||||||||
63 | 7/25/2016 6:47:58 | Flare | not online yet | Thibault de Saint Sernin | thibault.de-saint-sernin@gadz.ord | I'm a French engineer living in Palo Alto, deeply concerned with the values that you are supporting. I've always been excited about technology, but I am saddened by the unfortunate truth that it is becoming to be misguided, and is not (always) helping TRUE human interaction and relationship, which is the core of happiness. | It's all above. | not launched | Not launched | Freemium, Venture Backed (still figuring it out), trying to find investors | I would prefer to discuss that face-to-face, thank you for understanding. | Thank you! | ||||||||||||||
64 | 7/18/2016 9:57:17 | Ads.com.mm | https://www.ads.com.mm/en/ | Hein Aung Kyaw, Head of Content and Product | hein.aungkyaw@ads.com.mm | How do we help people to spend less time and energy on doing business online? | By being simple, fast and very responsive | 100K per month | 18 | Free Classified | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | I hope well that I learn something useful for others from this. | ||||||||||||||
65 | 7/18/2016 2:13:52 | Horizon | http://www.horizonapp.co | Drew Meyers | drew@horizonapp.co | How do we decrease opportunity/income equality via making community more accessible? | Our entire goal is to get people off their phone/computer, and meet someone in the real world. We're counteracting the "time suck" economy... I believe we're headed for a dangerously lonely and soulless world if the 1st world's screen addiction spreads worldwide. | 8000 people, 900 actives | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly), Donation-based / Pay-What-You-Can, We're bootstrapped. Considering equity crowdfunding. | Total facilitated stays/relationships. Total $ raised for charity. | |||||||||||||||
66 | 7/8/2016 15:34:57 | Urban Flute Project | http://www.urbanfluteproject.com | Jamie Thompson | urban.flute@gmail.com | "How can we restore awe and beauty in the World?" | Wonder is under-rated...my goal is to inspire others to move through the world in a new, creative way! | Hmm not sure on stats, but solid fan base :) | 1-10 people | Freemium, Advertising, Donation-based / Pay-What-You-Can, Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | Fostering a unique gap experience that revisits a refreshing sense of Magic and Wonder in the everyday... | all of the above :) | Thanks for this opportunity to reflect, review and share ideas in a new way! | |||||||||||||
67 | 7/7/2016 19:41:40 | Dirty Bombshell | http://www.dirtybombshellband.com/ | Bradley Neil, drummer | facebook@dirtybombshellband.com | How do we get our music and show information to fans and talent buyers? | Our primary art is the music and the shows. The web site is simply a conduit for information about those two primary artistic manifestations. To the extent that a visit to the web site is a separate aesthetic experience of its own, we hope it is one of simplicity and respect for what visitors come to the site to get: information about the music and the shows. | 1-10 people | Patronage | How many people are at the live shows, and how emotionally engaged they are with the music and the members of the band as they perform. | Found you through a link from the article at: https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.1gtehaep6 | |||||||||||||||
68 | 6/22/2016 5:39:42 | Bonhomme & Savoir Faire | www.bonhommeconsulting.com | Ricardo de Manzo y Flores | ricardo@bonhommeconsulting.com | How can I become my ideal self? | designing from the inside-out | 1-10 people | combination of per service, subscription and attending life labs. | by the time that people enjoy being themselves (thru mindfulness, self compassion, self betterment and sharing their success with others -by inspiring them-.) | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | |||||||||||||||
69 | 6/19/2016 16:59:37 | www.qiark.com | www.qiark.com | Mark Ricketts (Partner) | mark@qiark.com | What do you think the world would be like, if every one, every small voice, could be heard, and listened to, and valued, at a speed faster than the fastest computer? | We believe in RI - Real Intelligence, and we have created a system that will allow groups of any size to think together, and to jointly value those thoughts, and reach consensus without bias or favor, and to share the value of their combined thoughts, as common intellectual property. We have created an opportunity for other to design an alternative opportunity for the future of humankind | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | By the number of people who can make the choice about what they do with their time, and who genuinely feel connected to the work they do. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | |||||||||||||||
70 | 4/23/2017 21:18:20 | Technology for Mindfulness | http://www.technologyformindfulness.com | Robert Plotkin | rplotkin@technologyformindfulness.com | How can we use science to enable technology to be developed and used to promote mindfulness? | We educate the public about how to understand the impact of technology on mindfulness scientifically, and how to develop and use technology mindfullly. | 500 | 1-10 people | Advertising | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | We are developing meditation practices for use with a smartphone to help people use their smartphones more mindfully. These practices are now being alpha tested privately with a select group of meditation teachers and coaches, who are using the practices with their students/clients. | ||||||||||||||
71 | 4/24/2017 16:35:48 | OuiSi | http://ouisi.co/ | Paul Brillinger (CEO/Founder) | paul@ouisi.co | How might we nudge users to connect more deeply with each other and their fully alive world around them through their personal technology, instead of being distracted by these same gadgets? | See the ouisi.co landing page for an app description (w visuals). As a photo-based app, we've made tough choices early on, requiring more intention from the user. If Instagram is about the broadcast, we are about play and intimate communication. For example, we don't allow access to the iPhone library, requiring the user to find photo-pairings from their real-life environment (vs internet). We don't have like buttons; if you like a friend's photo-response, tell them why. | We've just launched; less than 1000. | 1-10 people | fair metadata; for now, this is as much an (expensive!) art project as anything. | We aren't sure how to measure it, but we are focused on a user's time spent off the app noticing their environments with a different "lens," using OuiSi as a prompt. With respect to connection, we are more interested in quality, explorative relationships with a few real people than collecting "500+" units in one's flat network. In future versions of the app, where we hope to provide space for safe play between complete strangers, we hope that we can build empathy between people from different communities that would otherwise not cross paths. In other words, OuiSi as a tool for empathy through play, seeing what the other sees. | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Sharing OuiSi with intentional and creative audiences | This Q&A we did with THNK in Amsterdam shares more about our vision, intention and the questions we are exploring. http://www.thnk.org/2017/02/ouisi-mindful-art-seeing-together/ | |||||||||||||
72 | 4/25/2017 21:02:12 | Set | https://set.gl | Andrew Hill, CEO | andrew@set.gl | What if we were each the admins of an API built on our behaviors? | We are building for the builders. But our goal is to create technology that embeds intelligence about our real-world behaviors into the apps we use. Our goal is to give the control of models we create back to the users (just like you authenticate services using your Twitter or Google account and can always remove that access later). Our focus is on building algorithms that train and run directly on each user's phone, to make that ownership and control more inherent in the system. | Just launched. Dozens of developers | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Critical thoughts on approach | |||||||||||||||
73 | 4/26/2017 2:17:40 | Ripil | www.ripil.com | Charley Johnson, CEO | charleypif@gmail.com | How do we make the world more kind and shift consciousness of society? | We focus on good and kindness only | 5,000 | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | The number of good deeds happening today that didn't happen the day before | Collaboration | ||||||||||||||
74 | 4/27/2017 12:21:00 | Eventify Life | http://evt.life | Evgeniya Slinko, CEO and founder | e.slinko@evt.life | How can we save people's time in order to find events and activities related to the personal development? We give them an opportunity to stop using Facebook as a promotional and search (asking friends and communities) tool. And we provide them a free (for small organisers or extremely cheap for the big ones) visibility in the search directory that helps to establish an immediate connect between interested parties. Brining this level of efficiency we aim to move people away from their gadgets and spend more time with activities like yoga, music, sports, arts, nature & adventure. | We introduce a detailed search for events, private teachers and creatives, venues owners and organisers. Our UI is done the way to make this search to happen within few minites. We put ourselves in the shoes of our consumers and provide them the tools to specify exact request. For example: I want to find a yoga class, I have time on wednesday evening or weekend except sunday evening, I want it to be in english in that specific area of Brussels and I'm an adult. You will get results in 15 seconds and the choice is not that big which takes another few minutes to make a decision. We also introduce rating and comments to provide a collaborative information. | Just launched on 25.04. But already starting to get visitors and users. | 1-10 people | Freemium | Our success is measured by the amount of events, profiles and users per city. We want them to spent the minimal time on our web site/app. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course, Mutual promotion | Skype call with Tristan Harris | |||||||||||||
75 | 5/1/2017 6:11:31 | WorkThink | https://www.getworkthink.com | Richard Girard, Gen Partner | rgirard@getworkthink.com | How can we de-program college graduates entering the workplace from the false belief that technical and hard skills is all they need to succeed in the workplace? | We educate college grads and/or newbies entering the workforce of the vital necessity of possessing soft skills that supplement their hard or technical skill execution. Today's students, and many others for that matter, have been so addicted to smartphones and social media, they simply cannot express themselves socially. This creates a disconnect not only in the interview process, but in their profession/workplace. It is extremely detrimental as one pursues entrance into the working world. Our patented algorithmic assessment can instantly measure ones' strengths and weakness in 12 'performance drivers'. With this information we can target areas for improvement through our proprietary online 1:1 coaching program. In essence, we correct the abhorrent behavior created by smartphone and social media addiction so grads and others can have a much greater chance of succeeding in the workplace. | 1-10 people | Self funded and coaching tuitions | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent" | ||||||||||||||||
76 | 5/2/2017 23:02:45 | Enzyme | dont have one yet | Wojtek Gabrielli | wojtek.kinga@gmail.com | SO FRUSTRATING !!!! been staring at this page for hours ! cant express what i want to say .... few years back i had a idea for a phone up that basically defines what TWS is all about, i lost hope not knowing how to get in touch with someone that can help me (i'm just a regular middle age dude, not a programmer) then i heard Tristan on Sam's podcast .... i have to write you, maybe you read this and agree to a lunch ? i live in seattle, you in SF i assume, but ill fly over if i could only have 30 min of your time. i copy/pasted what i wrote in my "design document" to the Anything else section, please have a read. if nothing else please help me get in touch with someone that can help, thank you | everything | 0 | 1-10 people | The age of digital relationship Today the digital world helps us keep track of people we already know (or know of) Meeting new people is another matter. Forums and other online communities provide a way to ‘meet new people’. People that share your hobbies, follow the same sports team, love the same obscure band, (just like you) know what the best make and model of a muscle car is. ect... We have platforms to enjoy relationships with like minded people, but its all digital. How many of those relationships actually end up with a handshake, a face to face conversation ? How many times you don't even know your ‘friends’ real name? Do not get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with digital relationships. I just think us humans are still most fulfilled with old fashion relationships. They involve all of our senses. No online meeting or video conference will replace a handshake. More and more of our relationships become digital. Will you still be a fulfilled, happy human being when 100% of people you know are avatars? So far technology is tearing us apart. We do not talk to each other anymore. We stare at our LED screens all the time. What’s the last time to struck up a conversation with a stranger in a coffee shop ? It is time we use the wonderful technology we have to bring us back together. The obstacles we face to turn digital relationships into human relationships are location, effort and lifestyle. Three thousand miles is not a boundary for an online relationship, but not many people have the means to cross that distance to meet a friend? There are websites to arrange meetings of people with the same interests, too bad you have to work late that day. What if we can find a way to make the technology work for us, make our digital gadgets help us find human relationships ? I’m a big Depeche Mode fan. Not many people get their music. Not many people get the message. I am a brother to everyone in the black swarm. I could be walking by my brothers and sisters everyday not knowing it. Unless they are wearing DM t-shirt i will never exchange a word with them. what if we could digitalize that t-shirt, that bumper sticker ? | ||||||||||||||||
77 | 5/4/2017 15:38:21 | Time and Place (personal navigator) | None yet | J.L.PARTIDA | jlpartida@twc.com | How can I convert my smartphone activity to be relevant to my daily (life's) activity and goals? | Value added activities relevant to your time and place. | Exponential; new smartphone model. Paradaigm | 1-10 people | Freemium, Paid Download, Subscription (monthly or yearly), Venture Backed (still figuring it out), Different phone use paradigm. | Only using your phone to maximize living (being more present) every day in your life. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | This could revolutionize how we use our phones. Paradigm shift!!! | |||||||||||||
78 | 5/5/2017 13:33:45 | Tech Wellness for Kids | techwellnessforkids.com | Annette Cashell, Owner | techwellnessforkids@gmail.com | Keeping kids healthy in the digital age | Most info re. "kids & screens" focus on the idea of keeping kids SAFE in the digital age. My site is a resource portal on how to keep kids HEALTHY in the digital age. Info is organised along 4 areas of environment, posture, movement and products. | 1-10 people | It's free. I'm volunteering this service. | I just want to make this info available to those seeking it. I wasn't able to find a central website offering this info when I was looking for advice. | Am toying with changing tagline to "Keeping kids healthy in the sedentary age" (instead of "digital age") as I think the sedentary factor is perhaps more relevant although both tend go hand in hand. | |||||||||||||||
79 | 5/5/2017 17:37:01 | LOC | http://theLOCapp.com | Scott Gardner | scott.gardner@mac.com | How can open conversations help unite the world? | My app doesn’t have friending, following, or connecting. It doesn’t have likes or any meter of social acceptance or approval. It just facilitates real-time conversations, and it includes live translation of messages across 90 languages. | ~ 2000 | 1-10 people | Completely free | When people tell me they enjoyed a conversation, or even made a new friend in LOC. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | I discovered Time Well Spent because of Tristan's article (http://www.tristanharris.com/2016/05/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds%E2%80%8A-%E2%80%8Afrom-a-magician-and-googles-design-ethicist/). I had no idea there was a body of people who share my desire to better shape technology to enhance life, not monopolize it. Whatever I can do to help move this forward, count me in! | |||||||||||||
80 | 5/8/2017 12:33:05 | Helpfulpeeps | www.helpfulpeeps.com | Saf Nazeer, CEO | saf@helpfulpeeps.com | How can we bring back community spirit in an increasingly disconnected world? | Today, almost all social media is designed to convince people to spend more time online. Helpfulpeeps want to enable people to do more in the real world by making it easier for people to act on their innate willingness to do good. | 30,000+ | 1-10 people | Angel Investors (still figuring it out) | Success is measured by the number of people that receive help via Helpfulpeeps. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | Keep up the good work :-) | |||||||||||||
81 | 5/21/2017 4:49:42 | Get Motivated Buddy | http://www.getmotivatedbuddy.com | Michael Goldstrom, Founder | info@getmotivatedbuddies.com | To help people reclaim their attention for their most important goals in life. | 1) SMS/Email based - outside of the social networks 2) Encourages planning, triggers and mindfulness, with minimal invasiveness 3) encourages social connection through gamification and goal setting 4) Introduces a Measures of Accountability and Integrity 5) Helps users see where they have difficulty | in closed beta ~10k | 1-10 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly), Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | 1) feeling of accomplishment 2) *resulting* feeling of increased motivation 3) embrace of tiny habits leading to lasting change | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", becoming an affiliate** | This mission of timewellspent is my priority. I have started to blog about it for www.getmotivatedbuddies.com, but finally launched the sms accountability service to put this into practice. I worked with BJ Fogg as well in his tiny habits program, and my goal is to bring elements of that into reclaiming our time. | |||||||||||||
82 | 5/24/2017 8:19:22 | Karma | https://karma.wiki/app/start/landing | Clyde Rathbone, Co-Founder & CMO | clyde@karma.wiki | How can knowledge networks enhance wellbeing? | Karma is a dedicated space for meaningful content - it's a place to acknowledge the people and relationships that mean the most to us. | We're in beta with 2.5K users | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | Every Karma letter is a gift the benefits both the author and the recipient, this is why our key metric is new letters per week. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | ||||||||||||||
83 | 6/2/2017 0:29:24 | Mambo | www.dothemambo.com | Deanna Charles, Founder | deechar@gmail.com | How do we most efficiently learn about what's happening within our communities (within our interests) and engage? How do we share opportunities and resources? | Mambo is an activity optimization tool designed to maximize human interaction | First Unitarian Church of Dallas - launching soon | 1-10 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly), self-funded | Rise in happiness index (eg. college campus measurement tool) | partnership opportunities | Mambo is a website and App available on Itunes and Google (Mambo To Go) | |||||||||||||
84 | 6/2/2017 17:17:53 | Dysconnected | http://dysconnected.com/ | Anton Scamvougeras, artist/author | antons@mail.ubc.ca | How might we make people more mindful of their mobile device misuse? | Achieving insight into mobile device use in a novel way, via a powerful visual motif and brief text/quotes rather than through formal cognitive argument. | In this case 'users' = readers. 10K, 100K, 1M+.. could be higher. | 1-10 people | Thus far, Hardcopy book for sale | Informally: Readers who report changing their device use for the better after reading 'Dysconnected' and thus being 'sensitized' to their own behavior. | sharing the fact of 'Dysconnected'.. I simply want to get the word out as far and wide as possible. | Dysconnected' has the subtitle 'Isolated By Our Mobile Devices'. It has been well received in Canada. Images from the book have been printed in 'adbusters', and the it has been featured on radio and in press in Canada. I'm looking for a way of spreading the word in the US. I think you'll immediately see the potential for synergy between TWS and 'Dysconnected'. Please let me know if you'd like me to send a complimentary copy of the book (and, if so, please send mailing address). It is PURPOSELY only available in hardcopy up to this point (I wanted people to go off and sit in a quiet place for a while). But ebook will follow (makes more sense, getting to the source of the challenge). | |||||||||||||
85 | 6/2/2017 20:33:39 | Routinist | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/routinist-morning-routine-reminder-day-planner/id1066084424?mt=8 | Tim Johnson, CEO | tcjohns87@gmail.com | How can we help people live deliberately? | Design Decisions: The app was designed to spend as little time as possible in the app (e.g., open app, mark an action complete, close app). Additionally, Routinist allows actionable notifications that allow you to complete your entire routine through notifications without ever having to open the app. We use no push notifications. The only notifications that occur while not using the app are an evening routine reminder and a morning routine reminder. These will not occur if the user does not use the app for a week. All notifications can be turned on/off in the app. | Since April 2016: 58K downloads, 5.3K Current Monthly Actives, 1.5K Long Term Active Users (used in month x but installed before month x-1) | 1-10 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly), Currently Freemium, but I've learned this needs to convert to subscription to be sustainable. | I agree with the Time Well Spent mentality that the Attention Economy is bad for us. I currently measure success by a sum of the minutes worth of actions users log as completed. Ideally, I'd like to differentiate between minutes completed on actions we've previously conquered (showering, brushing teeth, etc.) and minutes completed on new positive habits and goals (exercising, flossing, etc). In the ideal scenario, the measure of success would be the minutes on new habits/goals. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | I'm working on seed funding for Routinist, and as part of my pitch deck, I assert that the reason the average American spends 10.5+ hours per day consuming media is mainly because we have a basic human instinct to resist change and default to the easy path (scrolling a FB feed, watching TV, etc.). All of us have felt resistance to change. It's when you can't reach the alarm clock before the voices in your head start telling you it's too early to get out of bed. It's when you set out to do something new and those voices tell you to do anything but what you planned. I'm trying to understand the underlying reason(s) for this resistance to change. I believe an evolutionary explanation could be that this resistance benefited us in the past because it resulted in us taking less chances (a form of survival through risk aversion). But that's just my current thinking. In your research, have you come across anything that explains (by evolution or otherwise) why this resistance to change exists? I'd be extremely grateful if you could point me in the right direction. | |||||||||||||
86 | 6/3/2017 6:14:22 | Earth Encounters | www.earthencounters.us | Lawrence Walker, designer and owner | earthencounters@gmail.com | How can we generate meaningful dialogue that reveals undiscovered talents, leads to positive actions, new ideas, a more engaged citizenry, and "a more perfect union." | Earth Encounters is an anti-trivia, anti-silo board game that uses smartphones and tablets as tools for reference, not a substitute for thought. Seventeen of the top tech start-ups of all time began with friends engaging in face to face dialogue. We extend the conversation beyond the limited shelf life on TV and even most web based news media and promote increased public awareness of important issues and the search for practical solutions via thought experiments, role play, and traditional Q&A. We do not shy away from sensitive issues, but approach them in a way that builds trust. We believe its by challenging our history, we insure our future. Select PRESS tab on our website for more info. | We've sold 1500 games. | 1-10 people | Personal investment | I am 71. I was raised in segregated Birmingham, the third oldest of 10 kids. My son, Taylor, launched Earth encounters as part of his MBA program at LMU. Feedback from more than 200 students and staff from LMU, Pepperdine University, and high school kids in South Los Angeles, and many others who have played our game have proven that we have produced a product that's entertaining and brings value to those who play. | Evaluate our game and support our efforts to change the conversation. | ||||||||||||||
87 | 6/3/2017 6:59:00 | Deep Thinking Cap | https://ello.co/shanen0/post/ds7rcdzzwlj4n6zw0ubcgw | Shannon Jacobs | shanen@alumni.rice.edu | How can people think more deeply in distracting environments? | Super-sleeping headphones (earwigs): I actually want earwigs for two different applications: Reading in noisy environments, and sound-based treatment (and accurate diagnosis) of tinnitus. The most important new software feature of the earwigs is a modal safety switch that will (normally) be controlled automatically by motion detectors in the earwigs. The masking mode for tinnitus will attempt to provide a suitable masking sound to make the tinnitus less intrusive, perhaps by matching the sound in the other ear or by using various other sounds. I've actually done a lot of experiments with various sounds while sleeping, and have had pretty good success with certain water sounds such as slow ocean waves. | Not yet | 1-10 people | Subscription (monthly or yearly), Consumer product, though several of the above models could apply to product development, but basically this is a product I want to buy. Subscription is for the smartphone version. | The product is successful and I can buy one at a reasonable price. | Making a pitch for several better products | I see everything from the perspective of ekronomics, a new form of time-based economics. As regards your apparent focus on attention, I wonder if you left the google when their motto became "All your attention are belong to us"? The elevator version of ekronomics involves dividing time into three categories. The essential time is for such stuff as food, clothing, and shelter, and for advanced societies it's on the order of a few hours per week (averaged over the workforce), whereas hunter/gatherers spend all their time on essential work trying to stay alive. The other two categories of time are investment and recreation, where the balance determines the future competitiveness of the society in question. Details available upon polite request, as the joke goes, eh? | |||||||||||||
88 | 6/3/2017 16:05:48 | The ABT Framework | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwbeAEswnbk&feature=youtu.be | Randy Olson, scientist-turned-filmmaker | rolson@usc.edu | People are good AND there doesn't have to be so much disharmony, BUT we are in the Information Society now, THEREFORE everyone needs to understand the ubiquity and power of the ABT. (and that be an ABT) | Narrative is everything. It's that simple. You guys need the ABT. | roughly one bajillion | 1-10 people | a foundation that encourages me to make trouble | How much time I have for surfing. | The Information Society | Tristan - Great job on everything. Why are you the first person to mention THE ATTENTION ECONOMY on a mainstream show like Bill Maher where he had to ask you to explain it? The term was coined in 2001. I wrote about it in my first book in 2009. It’s so important. Why is the political world so clueless on the Information Society? There is such a huge cultural gap. You should learn about the ABT -- it's at the core of ALL communication. It should be part of your consciousness. I’m writing a new book all about it. | |||||||||||||
89 | 6/6/2017 23:13:36 | Qbserve | https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/ | Ivan Mir, developer & UX designer | ivan@qotoqot.com | How can we make life simpler for everyone? How can we make learning more accessible? | It's a productivity tracker that gives real-time feedback of one's performance and history log of activities. | 2000+ | 1-10 people | Paid Download | By emails from our happy users who were able to improve their lives with the app. We don't track anybody from the app. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent" | Probably I submit the app a year ago but we've never got a reply. If the app does not match TWS – a short negative response would be great since we consider ourselves the part of the movement and will search for the ways to improve the product. Thank you! | |||||||||||||
90 | 6/7/2017 11:50:43 | The Interface Lab | http://www.interfacelab.org/ | Fabian Hemmert (Professor) | fabian@hemmert.eu | How can technology help us to be more creative, and not less? | Sacrificing one's phone, being present, making ideas tangible, and sketching out a dystopian world of AI-driven creativity. | 5 | 1-10 people | University | Just letting you know | |||||||||||||||
91 | 6/12/2017 2:17:00 | Virtual Agora | www.virtualagora.net | Henryk A. Kowalczyk, Founder and Manager | hak1010@yahoo.com | Virtual Agora offers a unique political debate platform to facilitate constructive dialogue among people of different views. Patent pending | It is the best known to me commercial attempt to bridge the political divide, not by manipulating people's minds, but by education. Furthermore, it is realistic as it is for profit. It attempts to beat the beast by its own means. | A few, we just started, almost hours ago. I write inspired by today's 60 Minutes. | 1-10 people | Advertising | Number of participants and time spent. | I have no particular request or need. | I am contacting you as out of different experiences, you arrived with similar (or to be precise, complementary) conclusions. I hope that the very concept of Virtual Agora sparks your interest. | |||||||||||||
92 | 6/12/2017 21:06:03 | Early detection hear failure | Can not as it has not been launched due to TM | Mir zibae, Nima Pahlavan | umss@msn.com | The Avicena Heart "application " will largely replace the present reliance on a series of time consuming and very expensive heart related diagnostic tests that currently require expensive equipment, additional trained staff and hours to accomplish. With Avicena, a diagnostic waveform can be quickly captured with minimal equipment by a Doctor or a Patient, analyzed by the Avicena algorithm within 30 seconds, with the results communicated directly to the Doctor’s or users mobile device. | Please see sample Video AvicenaDemo_Vivio.mp4 | 11 - 100 people | Changing peopel habit for a healthier life and care | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent" | Yes inviting you as player and participants in this journey to make a healthier world with early detection of heart and body disease via our technology. | |||||||||||||||
93 | 6/21/2017 0:12:03 | COVI | senic.co/kickstarter-11 | Tobias Eichenwald, CEO | tobias@senic.com | How can we bring technology into the home while blending it into the background so we can focus on the things that really matter? | - We shipped over 10,000 devices of our first product Nuimo. - In that process we learned that in the home, design comes first and technology second - That's why we integrated a speech interface into a beatiful designer table lamp which has the side effect of the setting the right "stage" for deep conversations, focus or relaxation - We also integrated an open source based up which allows us to worry less about an open window or automatically turn on music and lighting when I get home (which has shown many positive psychological side effects). - We also care about showing people the process behind the glass blowing and metal working so people start creating a different and more careful relationship to products around them. Less but better. | +10000 of first product. 2nd product currently on Kickstarter. | 11 - 100 people | Harware and later monthly premium service | We don't know which measure would be representative. We've researched well-being quite a bit but struggle between qualitative and quantitative measures. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent" | - When you walk into our office, you feel a very special energy. - We come from really different backgrounds in psychology, design, hardware engineering and computer science but all believe that there must be better ways to bring technology into our lives. - You can also feel this deep care in everything we do and in the quality of our products. | |||||||||||||
94 | 6/23/2017 0:57:08 | Project Yellow Flag | projectyellowflag.com | Jason | jasonpr16@gmail.com | Can we have people talk to each other authentically to challenge technology? | Providing an alternative to going on the phone. | ~10k-100k | 1-10 people | Donation-based / Pay-What-You-Can, Swarm Organization (See Rick Falkvinge's Swarmwise) | Participates, Volunteers, Donations, Connections | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course, Meeting Tristan Harris | Thank you so much for all of the resources and work you have done. I truly admire your work and hope to meet you one day. Take care! P.S. The site might not be up by the time you see this, I just want to see if I can contact you. | |||||||||||||
95 | 6/25/2017 3:10:36 | FreeConvo | http://freeconvo.com/ | Jennie Liang, Co-Founder | jenniex.liang@gmail.com | How might we encourage strangers to connect with each other in real life? | FreeConvo is a social movement that encourages connection amongst strangers through spontaneous conversation. By setting up inflatable couches and "Free Conversation!" signs in public spaces, FreeConvo creates pop-up lounges for people to chat, share, and connect with others. Similar to Time Well Spent, FreeConvo is committed to helping enhance humanity. | ~10k | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | # of meaningful conversations | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course | ||||||||||||||
96 | 6/26/2017 23:02:05 | we are a non-profit organization | www.takingittothestreets.net | Rene Boisvert | rene@takingittothestreets.net | we are taking on poverty like no non-profit has before. whereas we are young, we are planning a media campaign to fundraise in a substantial way. presently we are in the "creative side" of writing / designing our outreach. just maybe - you could offer some of your expertise / lessons for making our messaging "stick?" | "Multiplication Philanthropy" -- leverage is the mantra of the times in philanthropy today. The cutting edge is investment in fundraising itself -- so to "multiply" the money that can be made available for poverty programs. "Scale" is the only way to make a difference where many others have failed. | 1-10 people | donations & partnerships | number of individuals helped. number of individuals that are now self sustaining. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", media design input | this is really important stuff! 50 years ago LBJ declared a War on Poverty. Since that time those in poverty has increased 500%. Clearly the "status quo" process of taking on poverty has failed miserably. | ||||||||||||||
97 | 7/18/2017 19:37:20 | Quantum Mapping® | Quantum Mapping® | Greg Herzog CEO | gregherzog@sbcglobal.net | QUANTUM MAPPING® Life design Living the life that you deserve. I have spent the last 32 years helping people figure out how they want to live and helping them actualize it. | instead of 5 people in Silicon valley controlling you, how about you control what you want to do with QUANTUM MAPPING® | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out) | To head off AI at the past and allow people to get control of their own life and maximize human existence. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent" | |||||||||||||||
98 | 8/1/2017 11:40:39 | longame | http://longame.org | Talbot Browne, Founder | info@longame.org | As individuals and a society, how can we better think and act long term? | It's a simple game - a way for people to set and represent a personal and heartfelt connection to their real lives, health and mortality - to enjoy richer experiences and achieve better outcomes. | In proof of concept phase; approx 100 sign-ups. | 1-10 people | Venture Backed (still figuring it out), Mark-up on personalised apparel (lifestyle brand) | Cumulative new hours users spend outdoors, enjoying being alive, attaining healthy weights and eating well, as estimated from sign-ups, gear sales, invites and feedback. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Online Course, Network building to create a force for change. | I've just started a work-in-progress overview of modern society here, which will gradually become a book/channel for productive teenagers: http://longame.org/home/blog/ | |||||||||||||
99 | 8/3/2017 17:48:41 | Hawser | www.hawserapp.com | Josh Sapienza | Josh@hawser.org | 1. How can we weave social good into people's daily lives? 2. How can we level the media playing field so that people, instead of algorithms, are in control and every user is on equal footing - from the smallest local charity to the largest international brand? | We built an app to facilitate a more efficient online media experience so that people can spend less time online and more time enjoying the things that matter to them off-line. | Approx400 friends and family | 1-10 people | Freemium, Subscription (monthly or yearly), self | 1. Total # of: connections with, donations to and hours spent volunteering for verified 501(c)(3) organizations. 2. Total # of strategic alliances between for-profit corps and non-profit entities via our new approach to personalized corporate giving. | Design Guidelines for "Time Well Spent", Workshops & Conference on "Time Well Spent", Collaborating with others | Learning from those who know the space better than we do as a former hospitality professional, photographer/filmmaker and corp developer. | |||||||||||||
100 | 8/11/2017 19:45:51 | Campfire by OEX | www.campfireapp.io | Peter Steppe | peter@campfireapp.io | Foster quality time and in-person communication | Our app connects people (rather than being "alone together") at lunch or dinner | < 10k presently | 1-10 people | Paid Download | Making it fun for our customers to be around the campfire w friends at lunch or dinner | would be interesting to discuss further with you |