Build a Momentum and Burnout Dashboard for Solo Founders

1. 1

   Infer, do not interrogate

   Pull ship signals from repos, deploy logs, published posts, and support queues automatically; the only manual input is a ten-second energy and mood tap each morning. Founders will not maintain another tracking habit, so the dashboard must be mostly assembled from exhaust they already produce.

2. 2

   Define momentum honestly

   Commits are not progress; shipped changes, customer conversations, and revenue events are. Let each founder define their two or three momentum signals during onboarding, then measure consistency rather than volume. The stall alert, nothing shipped in N days against your own baseline, is the flagship moment.

3. 3

   Treat burnout signals with care

   Late-night work streaks, vanishing days off, and declining energy check-ins correlate with the spiral, and the app should say so plainly but kindly, with wellness framing rather than clinical claims. Suggest concrete circuit breakers, a ship-nothing weekend, a scope cut, and never gamify overwork.

4. 4

   Make the weekly review the ritual

   A Sunday email: what moved, what stalled, energy trend, and one suggested focus for the week. Many users will live entirely in this email, and that is fine; the email is the product for them, and the dashboard is the depth behind it.

5. 5

   Price like a utility, grow like a community

   Something in the range of $5 to $12 a month fits indie budgets, with a public-stats badge option founders can share, which doubles as marketing. Indie hacker communities and build-in-public feeds are the native distribution channel.

6. 6

   Resist the team-tool temptation

   The instinct will be to grow into team analytics and die competing with enterprise dashboards. The niche is the solo psyche: one person, honest mirrors, kind interventions. Depth there, integrations, better inference, coach marketplaces, beats width everywhere else.

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