I wanted to share something I’ve been working on which has been super helpful to me already.
I’m the founder of a tech startup called Praxos, and over the past months I’ve started to struggle juggling all the different tasks and commitments falling on my plate. Often times I’ve caught myself spending most of my day chasing after personal life or mundane job work, only to realize that I couldn’t really (1) move the needle on things that mattered for my company’s success on that day; and that (2) I had a few hours left on my day but was too drained to do anything meaningful.
I am very organized and have a great memory, so I’ve never really used checklists or kept many things on the calendar. I understand that these things would’ve helped me prioritize better, but always felt that the hassle of putting things in place or keeping them updated outweighed the ease or just keeping them in my own memory. That said, I’ve had more and more “oh sh!t” moments lately with something important falling through the cracks.
Up until a month ago, the startup I co-founded with my best friend was in insurance. Our main bread and butter was being able to extract insurance data from anything and put it into anything. But as our systems got better, we started experimenting with using it for other things. For me, I realized that connecting the same email/calendar automations we built for insurance brokers, as well as the same capabilities to take my emails, documents, etc. and extract the data it needs to actually do stuff for me, can already make something that helps me.
Think about a simple WhatsApp or Telegram message that reminds me about lunch with a client, or that I have to run an errand, or having it find the blood pressure numbers I have somewhere my emails that the doctor keeps asking for to give me the refill and sending it to her already just made me feel less like I was balancing on a tight rope.
This was kind of a big moment for me, because we realized that having something which for us, ourselves, would be usable is so much more exciting that building a product in insurance. So we spent the past month taking what we had, and building it into exactly what we wanted to see.
For me, just the fact of knowing I can send it a random voice note on WhatsApp before bed, and having it immediately start coordinating with a client over email a time to meet next week has been a godsend.
So today, I’m sharing what I built here, hoping that people benefit from it.
We’re still actively fleshing it out, and we’re very open to hearing ideas, or things that people need. The goal’s to build a version of Siri / Android Assistant that can both (1) remember everything about you, and (2) do work for you. All of this one text / voice msg away.
If you’d like to check it out, here’s our site: https://mypraxos.com.