What Comes First
In many planning meetings, everything sounds important. So everything stays. Weeks later, progress slows not because people aren’t working hard, but because attention is split across too many “priorities.” I kept seeing the same pattern: teams avoid prioritization not out of laziness but because it forces uncomfortable trade offs. So I built a small tool called What Comes First. It removes scoring frameworks and debate and forces a single constraint: if only one thing can be first, what actually comes first? This started as an internal exercise. I built it solo and used Notion heavily to…
What Comes First launched on February 10, 2026 with 3 votes, #3,487 of 16,628 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
What it does
Every team says they have priorities. Most teams end up with a list where everything is important. That’s where progress quietly stalls. What Comes First is a simple prioritization exercise that forces real trade-offs. Instead of debating endlessly or hiding behind frameworks, it makes teams rank what actually comes first and reveals where alignment breaks. No scoring formulas. No complex setup. Just one uncomfortable question that surfaces clarity.Built from real meetings where nothing moved.
When everything feels important, force a choice.
Not a vote. Not a score. A forcing function to surface where priorities actually align—and where they conflict. The host adds 2-10 items that need prioritizing. Once the link is shared, items lock. Drag items from what should come first to what can wait. No ties allowed. Results show average ranking and disagreement. Talk about the conflicts before moving on. This tool forces teams to rank priorities when everything feels equally urgent. It's not a vote. It's not a scoring exercise. It's a structured way to surface where people agree on priorities—and where they fundamentally disagree. Use it when you need to force hard trade-offs, not just collect opinions. The discomfort is the point—it…from cognu.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
In many planning meetings, everything sounds important. So everything stays. Weeks later, progress slows not because people aren’t working hard, but because attention is split across too many “priorities.” I kept seeing the same pattern: teams avoid prioritization not out of laziness but because it forces…
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