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Shimmer Body Doubling — Virtual co-working, the ADHD way
Meet the #1 ADHD Coaching Platform’s newest experience — Body Doubling for ADHD. We’ve infused the 6 ADHD motivators to supercharge a popular co-working strategy for getting things done.
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@max_savonin1 Hi Max, thanks so much for this thoughtful comments. I have a few answers here, and I'll re-direct to the dev team @vikram_sreedhar & @anthony_lin on the technical parts!
- Shimmer actually only matches participants with coaches for 1:1 coaching sessions, where the ongoing rapport is important for the coaching relationship to flourish. For the body doubling sessions, members tune into whichever ones match their schedule, with some (not all) having a theme. In the future when we're hosting more, we'll definitely be doing more of "body doubling for taxes", "body doubling for entrepreneurship", "body doubling for laundry"
- Yes! After coaching sessions and body doubling sessions, and when members have been with Shimmer for 1, 3 months, we ask them science-backed assessment questions that help them understand how their life has changed (executive functioning skills, impairment), relationship with their coach, capacity for change, and more.
- For now, coaches host the body doubling experience because in case there is any situation that requires moderation or escalation, the coaches are trained to handle these situations. In the future, we may consider doing light training for member facilitation but that isn't in the plans just yet!
@threehourcoffee Ah, Marie! Thank you SO MUCH! YOUR team is amazing!!! Thank you for the kind words and I'm always looking forward to Llama life updates (on email or IG) — your team is killing it!
Thank you so much @mwseibel for hunting us!
Hi everyone! I'm Vikram, one of the co-founders and CTO of Shimmer. 😊
I’m so excited to share this feature we’ve been beta testing for quite awhile now to make sure it had all the bells and whistles to showcase it on Product Hunt.
Our team has been working tirelessly to create the best possible experience for the ADHD community, and we're thrilled to now offer Body Doubling for our Shimmer members! ⭐
In our Body Doubling sessions, members are able to join a video call with other Shimmer members and a Shimmer ADHD coach to keep themselves accountable to working on any tasks they want to tackle within the duration of the session (typically an hour).
We’ve added several specific features (mood check-ins, sharing task lists, pomodoro timers, and of course lots of confetti 🎉) to incorporate ADHD motivators that help make these sessions even more helpful and engaging for our members to accomplish the goals they’ve set out for the day. We knew we were doing something right when our members were sharing how much they loved the sessions, check out some of the quotes in our images above!
Please check us out and let us know what you think, we're always open to feedback and really appreciate your support with our Product Hunt launch!
Cheers,
Vikram
@christal The combination of ADHD coaching and virtual co-working is brilliant! Can you share some success stories from users who have significantly improved their productivity with Shimmer?
@taras_tymoshchuk Definitely! You should check out our testimonial page (warning, you may cry! It's so sweet): https://testimonial.to/shimmer-c...
Some quotes from our testimonial page:
"As a solopreneur, my productivity increased over 100%, which was beyond my expectations."
"My Shimmer coach, Coach Randa, has been amazing. She has helped me increase my productivity at work along with feeling more confident and accepting of my ADHD."
Others that aren't included there:
"This is sorcery. How did I get so much done here in an hour?"
"I got more done in this hour than the last 2 days combined"
Aloha PH 👋
As someone diagnosed with ADHD later in life, I've always just naturally gravitated towards coworking, body doubling with partners, and parallel play. Even before I understood why/how body doubling even worked. Working together is just more fun, right?
That's why I'm so excited about our new Body Doubling experience. The team has put so much thought into making it as neurodivergent-friendly as possible.
Most body doubling services I've tried focus solely on just providing a co-working environment. That's helpful, but for those of us with ADHD, we often need a bit more.
I'm looking forward to seeing how others in the ND community find this experience. If you've ever felt more productive working alongside someone, you might want to give this a try.
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I'm one of the developers at Shimmer, and I'm really excited to share our Body Doubling feature with you.
From whiteboard sketches to late-night coding sessions, it's been incredible to see this feature come to life. We've poured our hearts into crafting a space that's not just productive, but also fun and socially engaging.
It's been a lot of fun building the video integration, a custom Pomodoro timer to keep everyone on track, and real-time task sharing to boost accountability. The live chat buzzes with encouragement and support, while mood check-ins and reactions help everyone stay connected and motivated.
It has been incredibly rewarding seeing our members not only achieve their goals, but also form connections and cheer each other on during Body Doubling sessions.
If you get a chance to try it out, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Your feedback is invaluable as we continue to improve and build an even more supportive space.
@anthony_lin you and @pathaksarvesh are the reason why our Body Doubling sessions are so smooth to navigate around and use 🙌🏾 Couldn't have built the feature without you and making sure every edge case was handled properly. This is a huge accomplishment!!
Gotta a few friends who dealing with ADHD and sometime feeling behind of work/school. This is interesting, especially the 1:1 weekly coaching gonna help a lot... I'll tell them to check out Shimmer. Congrats on the launch @christal 🤠
@ali_eskandari Thanks, Ali! Send them our way, we're happy to find them a good coach match for them. Feeling behind/frustrated is such a common experience for us ADHD-ers. They're not alone!
Love to support mental health on PH - they are super rare but the world needs it! Also love the disclaimer, there are tons of non-clinical solutions claiming to be clinical. The idea of a coach is a great example of you being transparent. Love how you still have a team full of psychologist and medical professionals.
Thanks for sharing your story with us as well @christal - congrats on the launch team!
This is so awesome! I love that you get to put your tasks in and have accountability on them! Congrats on the launch
@christal I’m going to try out the new Body Doubling feature on the ADHD Coaching Platform soon.
@himanshuraikwar Awesome! Hit me up if you need any coach suggestions, you can reach me at chris@shimmer.care
This is revolutionary. Been searching for something like this since ages. Great Job @christal
Chris and the Shimmer team are incredibly impressive - excited for this new feature launch!
@vrinda_gupta1 Aw, thanks Vrinda! Really appreciate all your support and how we've collaborated across the years. Can't wait to see what Sequin achieves too!
Congrats, @christal + Team Shimmer! As someone who benefits from body doubling (even without an ADHD diagnosis), I know this will help a ton of people.
This is super cool! Really love how the product seems to be crafted with accountability in mind -- definitely the thing I struggle with the most with getting my tasks done!
@kevin_bunarjo1 Yes! Accountability is also the biggest motivator for me. It's so hard as an entrepreneur too, when all of your timelines are created technically by yourself. I feel you.
So excited for this! Body doubling is a game-changer for ADHD productivity 🙌
@raghavendra_devadiga4 Woohoo! Excited to see you join the community, let us know if you have any questions about signup or how to join. We're here for you!
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