Indy

AI support for your ADHD, not just your to-do list

Health & Fitness

Productivity

Health

I feel like I’ve had ADHD since childhood :) I can think about a huge number of things at the same time, and sometimes it’s very hard to concentrate. I have to turn off my phone, messengers, and other distractions to stay in the flow.

I have been using Indy since its launch. It's the one app I never knew I needed, but really love. It's like having a goal setting tool, encourager, and problem solver all at the same time. No guilt, but accountability and helpful suggestions. I love it!

Have wanted to try Shimmer for a long time because I see the value on the product: tailored made coaching for ADHD tackling every aspect in which we ADHDers fall short. Much better than therapy. Sadly being from Argentina the price is too high compared to therapy and can’t access. But there when Indy comes in, built from the best from shimmer sessions and crafted by experts with lots of tools transit life with ADHD. One of my fav tools for ADHD without a doubt!

Congrats on the launch! As a doctor and dev building an AI health app, I completely agree that 'blank page' interfaces are the enemy of executive dysfunction.

I love that you focused on structured flows instead of just another chatbot.

Question: How does Indy handle the 'shame cycle' when a user falls off the wagon for a few weeks? Does the AI proactively reach out to re-engage them, or does it wait for the user to return?

Indy has honestly been such a good find for me. It’s structured and goal-oriented, but not in a way that overwhelms you. I’ve tried other apps that made me feel like I was failing, but this one actually helps me stay on track and feel proud of my progress. I love it. Thank you for helping me!

Wow, Indy looks amazing! The focus on future-mapping is exactly what I need. How does the AI personalize the daily scaffolding based on my past reflections? This could be a game changer!

Hi, everyone! I’m Elisabeth, the Product Designer of the team.

Indy is not just another ADHD tool. There are plenty of productivity lists, calendars, and trackers. The Indy experience is instead rooted in narrative and vision, to help you identify the meaning behind doing any of those things on your lists, calendars, and trackers. This is something you experience on a deep level when working with a professional Shimmer ADHD coach.

To communicate the depth of the experience, we explored a celestial, dark-mode aesthetic with a lot of clean, open space that helps the ADHD mind focus on one thing at a time.

We hope you download and enjoy the app as we continue to evolve the UI and features to deliver more value and delight!

Hi Product Hunt! I’m Trina, and I’m on the Growth team here at Shimmer! 👋 So much care went into building Indy and we’re so excited to share it with you!

Hey Product Hunt Community!

I’m Alex, Shimmer’s Senior Manager of Care & Coaching and I’m super excited that the launching Indy expands the ways in which we can serve the ADHD Community!

We know there’s so many great forms of service out there, but it's often inaccessible due to cost or time constraints, and the current apps on the market really don’t focus on long-lerm, future-orientated wellbeing for the ADHD Community. I am so honored to get to be part of an initiative that focuses on making care more feasible.

What I love about the space we created is that it creates a consistent space to pause, reflect, and reset. It gives people a way to reconnect with what matters, which can be so challenging to do.

I’m excited to see how people use it, and what we learn from the community next.

Best,

Alex

Indy has been very useful in just helping me track some of my learnings about how I work best and identifying blind spots or things I hadn’t considered. It’s become a part of my morning routine!

I've been using Indy since it became available on Play Store and I love the daily checkins. It's like having that friend I always needed to check in on me, remind me of my values, my goals. This is what I've been trying to accomplish using all the notion templates and journals under the sun.

Truly fantastic job.

ADHD users are especially sensitive to feeling pressured or judged. How did you design Indy’s prompts, pacing, and progress tracking to avoid turning into a guilt machine—while still creating enough accountability to change behavior?

Indy is game-changing. I have been using it since its launch and I am seriously so grateful for it. Came across it through @christal's page and cant thank you enough!

The design is very clean and intuitive. It was easy to get started and to keep using it consistently.

The 'Lifeline' exercise is my favorite feature so far. Having my goals and dreams for the future mapped out in categories really help anchor it and I love how the app reminds me of these when solving problems or setting daily goals.

The messaging feature was a bit tricky to get used to. Since AI chat apps usually let you ramble. But I am starting to see its strength in helping me stay focused, reduce overwhelm, and explore new possibilities.

Looking forward to seeing how the app keeps generating insights and patterns that would help me in the long term.

I am loving Indy so far. Having a guiding theme for my week and then checking in every morning and evening is proving to be the structure. I need to get more done and also notice the wins from the day.

Hey everyone! I’m Anthony, one of the engineers at Shimmer. We’ve had a ton of fun building Indy, and honestly it’s been really cool seeing the impact it has already made on people's lives.

From the start, we wanted to be super intentional about structure. The goal wasn’t to make something that talks forever, it was to make something lightweight that helps you get what you need in terms of structure and clarity, so you can go and tackle whatever is most important for you in your life.

If you’re curious, I’d love for you to check it out. And if you have questions, feedback, or ideas, feel free to leave a comment!

This is soooo iconic huge congrats on the launch !!!! Sharing with my friends now

Thank you so much @garrytan for hunting us! Hi everyone! 👋

I am Xenia – the Principal Scientific Officer at Shimmer.

As a person responsible for evidence-based approach to Shimmer products, I am very excited about this launch.

Most of ADHD apps treat human like a machine who needs to be “trained” from getting distracted to fixing their eyeballs on the goal for long enough to receive a pat on the back.

Others attempt to reduce human complexity into what can be measured and averaged, at the expense of nurturing a singular subjective experience of each person.

These approaches ignore the most important thing: humans are not machines. We are living our life story as we go along, making meanings in interaction with our context and other people.

Altogether, this results in a never-ending loop of responding to what feels urgent…

Indy is radically different.

The modern developmental science suggests that we should instead focus on what is important first. What do you want to see happening in your life this year? In five years? Thirty years on?

Else, existential psychology shows that despite the uncertainty of the modern world, there is much more choice and freedom available to us. There is every reason to invest into the strategic life-span view - and this is what Indy does.

I would love to answer any questions you might have and look forward to you trying it out!

 

As someone who also has some ADHD users, this is noticeable.

If you can learn people how to turn this "diagnosis" to skill, you can do miracles.