September 2026
You don't need to know them, and they don't even need to exist yet: the appointment does the first half of the work.
The mechanism is simple and there's nothing magic about it: you can put off a plan without telling anyone, but not an appointment. That's why the thing that matters most isn't finding the perfect person: it's having the time written down somewhere other than your own memory.
Below, you pick your appointments for the week and download them into your calendar, whichever calendar app you use. They come back every week on their own. No account needed, and you don't even need us.
Which days
The appointments repeat every week. You can change or delete them from your calendar whenever you like.
What most people are looking for isn't a coach. It's someone who actually shows up, at the time you agreed, without a week of messages first. One thing holds in all three cases: pick a time that survives your bad weeks, not the ideal one. A 6 a.m. appointment you skip three times does more harm than good.
I don't promise that you'll work better with someone next to you: I don't know that, and neither does anyone who promises it. There's no solid evidence for it: the studies with objective measures that I've read didn't find significant effects.
What can be said is a fact about behaviour: at that time someone is waiting for you, and an appointment you've made is harder to cancel than a plan. If that's enough for you, it works. If you're expecting more than that, it doesn't.
I'm building an app where you book a quarter hour and, if someone else is in that quarter hour, you work together on a video call, each on your own things. Two people in the same quarter hour are enough: there's no need for a crowd.
The camera stays on for the whole session; there's a button to switch it off for a moment if someone rings the doorbell, but it isn't meant for hiding behind for the whole session. You don't have to show your face, though: you can point it at your desk. If you'd rather work without a camera, the timer opens no video call.
If nobody is in the quarter hour you picked, the session starts anyway: for the first 5 minutes we look for someone while you work. If nobody arrives, you choose: carry on with a virtual companion, and if you stay until the end the session counts in full, look for a person in the next quarter hour, or leave.
It's free, it has no ads and it doesn't sell your data. It opens in the browser, nothing to install.
For adults (18+). You can download the appointments above without an account.
Someone you make an appointment with to work at the same time, each on your own things. Not a mentor: they don't watch what you do and don't check your results.
There are three routes: ask someone you already know, look in a community in your field, or use a service that pairs people by time slot. With the last one you don't need to know anyone: two people just need to pick the same quarter hour.
It depends on what you need. The same person builds a habit and a bit of mutual responsibility; a different one each time means you're not stranded when the other person can't make it. There's no single right answer.
In the coworking sessions, yes, for the whole session, but you can frame your desk instead of your face. The microphone can stay muted from start to finish. If you'd rather work without a camera, the timer opens no video call.