beams — Menu bar app to mindfully navigate your workday

Hey Product Hunt community, We are so happy to share early access to our menu bar app with PH today. For the week of the launch, you can download beams directly from our website usebeams.com. Special thanks for hunting us @chrismessina ❤️ 🤯 Notifications, too many tabs and constant context switching… we feel you! For my co-founder @mihriminaz and myself this grew into a frustration that left us feeling stressed and unaccomplished. We’ve tried all productivity tools out there only to stop using them a few days later. As a software developer and product manager, we knew we can do it better. ✨ We are building the next generation productivity solution beams is a Mac Menu Bar App that helps navigate your workday with more focus and less stress. We didn’t want to build yet another tool that tries to make us work faster or more, or one that is designed on purpose to distract. Instead, we design and build software in a more mindful way. With beams you only need to glance to the top of your screen to see the one thing to focus on at any time. 🧑‍💻 beams helps people work better, not more! - When you have a meeting coming up with a single click or shortcut you are in. - When you have a task to work on, we beam you into focus mode where distractions are cut out - With our Calendar and Slack integrations your colleagues will know that you’re busy focussing right now 💜 We love our early user community During the past months we’ve manually onboarded over 300 users from our waitlist and iterated the product together with them. Thank you so much to our early user community for your continuous feedback and support! 🙏 🚀 This is just the beginning For us this is just the first step of building the work SaaS meta layer that integrates with your most used work tools, that learns about your work context to help you focus on the right thing at the right time. We will be hanging out on this thread today, so if you have questions, feedback, or thoughts, we’d love to hear them. 😄 P.S. The only way you pay for now is with feedback, hope that’s fair. Go download beams now while the waitlist is open. P.P.S. This maker's message hasn't been written with ChatGPT (:

Congratulations on the launch! As a distractible person who needs to take extra steps to focus (headphones, brown noise, etc.), I think this is a great project, and I've been pleased to see how it's developed throughout the testing. Here's to more serenity, deliberate work and good flow for all of us!

Congrats on the launch! Beams is a daily companion, absolutely love it!

I am using beams since several months and it helped me tremendously to develop a work routine that is not only more healthy but also leaves me more fulfilled in the end of the day. As a Product Manager there are so many tasks to work on during the day. On top of that, I always want to be available for questions to avoid anyone in my teams being blocked. With beams I can now peacefully pause all distractions for an hour to center my energy on one thing while always being aware of what comes up next and not losing track. Big congrats to the whole beams team for developing such a valuable application which solves such significant pain points. Please don‘t stop and keep up the great work!

beams make my life much easier at work and it keeps improving.

Congratulations on the launch! I was lucky enough to be a beta user of your project, and I have to say, it really helped me improve my productivity. The slogan "work better, not more" really resonates with me, and I can tell that a lot of thought and care went into developing this project. Beams is also a great reminder that productivity isn't just about doing more, but doing things in a way that is effective and efficient. I'm sure your project will help many people improve their work processes. Keep up the great work, and I can't wait to see what comes next!

Hey Jana and Leona, love the tagline "work better, not more". Sharing this with my colleagues using mac! @nikhil_singh16 @nandita_d Good luck!

Such a relevant topic and tool. We definitely need more mindful productivity, and excited that beams can help with that. Way to go 💪🏻

Beams has replaced my old, unpractical, in-browser pomodoro app and I couldn’t be happier with it. I now always have easy access to my focus mode and my calendar overviews right in front of me and I can plan my deep work sessions in without the fear of forgetting my other commitments! I’m less distracted and take more regular breaks. Also, the gong sound even reminds me of Yoga class which puts me in a good mood.

I've been using beams for the past few months and it's a daily companion for me by now! Congratulations on the launch Jana and Mihri 👏 Looking forward for more! Keep up the great work 🚀

Congrats for the launch. Can't wait wo see beams climbing up here. As one of the early test-beamers I can truly recommend your product to everyone who's struggling to find what they need in the various open tabs, calendars and loose of focus time. Thumbs up for beams! Beams is already an inherent part of my everyday work.

Great Product.

Great app!!

This is really helpful @jana_schellong especially that when we're busy we can forgot some things that leads us to more stressful day. All the best for the launch! Hoping for the success on your project!

Congrats on the launch! The UI looks clean. Definitely going to try it.

This looks really good! I'm one of those MS Teams users (not by choice) so I'm looking forward to some features to change my status when in focus mode ;) Love how intuitive the settings are, I managed to get my preferences in immediately.

Very useful tool, go Beams go!

Congrats 👏 what a great product!!! I am way to distracted at work 😅

Great Benefit for Daily Business and improvisieren mental Health!

Congrats on the launch! Have been using for a long time in beta! Great product