The Unstuck Button

Inspiration

ADHD isn't laziness. It's a broken start button.

366 million adults worldwide have ADHD. Most productivity tools make it worse — they hand someone who is already frozen a longer list of things to not start. We wanted to build something that breaks the freeze instead of adding to it.

What it does

You open it. You dump whatever is swirling in your head — messy, chaotic, incomplete. Claude reads it, pulls out the tasks it heard, and asks you to tap the one you're tackling right now. You pick your energy level and how much time you have. It gives you one thing to do. Not a plan. Not a list. One embarrassingly small action sized for your brain at this exact moment.

No account. No streaks. No history. Every session starts clean.

How we built it

Single-file artifact powered by the Claude API. Two calls: one to extract tasks from the brain dump as tappable chips, one to generate the micro-action based on task + energy + time. No backend, no database — because friction is the enemy of ADHD users and we designed around that from the start.

Challenges

The hardest part was restraint. Every instinct said add more — a timer, a streak, a history view. Every one of those is a new way to fail. We cut them all. The app has fewer features than our first wireframe. That was the right call.

What we learned

Designing for ADHD forces you to be honest about friction. Every extra field, every extra screen, every extra decision is a place someone gets stuck before they reach the thing they needed help starting. Less is the feature.