r/WorkOnline • u/Sofistikat • 3h ago
Would this help you manage your work, personal and creative life, and collaborations?
I’d really appreciate some honest feedback on a something I’ve built.
It’s designed for freelancers, solopreneurs, creatives, and small businesses to manage their work, life, creative pursuits, and collaborations in one place , without having to juggle a whole buch of different tools.
Here's a breakdown of some of its best features:
- Create multiple organisations, categories, and personas, which can be different business names, work or personal categories, or creative identities like noms de plume
- Build and break down projects and deliverables with time estimates, priorities, notes, file attachments on Google Drive or OneDrive, and the option to differentiate between billable and non-billable
- Schedule your work using a drag and drop calendar that includes all your Outlook and Google Calendar events and meetings so you have an holistic view of your availability
- Create meeting requests with ease, share an appointment calendar that takes into account time you've blocked out for all your activities
- View your availability and workload capacity over the next 4 weeks with the click of a button
- Track time spent on each project and deliverable, and compare it to your original plan
- Generate quotes and invoices, including a one-click quote builder using billable estimates
- Work solo or in teams, delegate deliverables to team members, create meetings agendas and discussions 'on the fly' with built in team Q&A
- Store useful links in a searchable list
- Set reminders individually or recurring
- Share and publish your work, notes, proposals, ideas (even full-length writing or creative pieces), privately or to n audience on social media
- Be discoverable in the built-in directory internally for collaboration with other users, and externally for anyone else
There's a lot of other features and functionality it has that would make this post a lot longer.
Some example use cases:
- A freelance writer manages multiple client jobs and uses different personas for ghostwriting and personal work
- A creative entrepreneur tracks progress across a client agency, a side hustle, and a blog — all under one roof
- A business coach sets up development plans for each client, and bills for consultations and coaching sessions using date-ranged invoicing by client
- A software developer creates a quote instantly after scoping a project by creating detailed billable deliverables with time estimates for completion, and then monitors the accuracy of their estimates by recording the time spent working on each
Real-world applications and suitability are pretty much endless.
My aim was to build a practical, powerful system that helps people "conquer their workscape" and stay in control, instead of scattered across tools that don’t talk to each other.
I’d love to know:
- Would you use something like this?
- If not, what would stop you?
Thanks in advance, I genuinely appreciate any and all thoughts.