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Products that do what Shimmer – ADHD-adapted body doubling does

I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer. In 2022, following my ADHD diagnosis, I launched Shimmer (https://shimmer.care), a 1:1 ADHD Coaching for adults (HN launch here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468611 ). One problem we discovered while running 1:1 coaching is that people weren’t able to actually follow through (in real life) on the ideas they came up with during their weekly sessions with their coach. There is a concept called body doubling that’s popular within the ADHD community—it’s basically getting things done in the presence of other people.…

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