cutest productivity hack ever

gm legends, happy Monday.

Today’s lineup: a browser focus timer that bribes you with a little pet that grows when you actually stay on task, a social scheduler that lets you write once and look alive across every platform without living in five tabs, and a mobile call recorder that turns the phone chats you usually half remember into clean transcripts and action notes.

Mochi Focus is a Chrome Pomodoro timer that gives you a tiny blob mascot that grows as you stay on task. Start with a baby Mochi, earn XP while you focus, unlock evolutions, themes, streaks, and achievements, and block distracting sites during each session so you actually stick with it. No account, all local, just a timer that turns your attention span into a leveling game.

🔥 Our Take: Most focus apps nag, then end up buried in a folder. This one taps into the very real urge to take care of a little guy on your screen, which is sometimes enough to keep you on the timer for one more block instead of wandering back to social. Cute bribery, honestly, but it works.

Vikas Shah is a dad and builder who’s just trying to feed his family. No, like literally. He needs to get three square meals into bellies each day or everybody gets hangry.

The problem, he writes, is that “every household has someone carrying the invisible mental load of meals. It's not the cooking that's exhausting — it's the deciding. 21 meals a week. Remembering who eats what. Knowing what's in the fridge. Figuring out quick meals for busy nights. My wife carried all of this. When I'd ask, ‘How can I help?’ she still had to manage me. That's not really helping.”

So Vikas built a tool. And he wants to know: Could this help with families like yours?

Cue is a social scheduler built for solo founders, creators, and small teams who need to show up across a bunch of platforms without living in five tabs. You write a post once, tweak it per platform, and let it auto schedule across X, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and more, with AI help for captions and images plus an API, n8n workflows, and MCP support if you want to wire it into your stack.

🔥 Our Take: Writing the post is the easy part. It is the logging into every account, pasting, resizing, double checking links, and wondering which one you forgot that quietly kills momentum. This goes after that grind and treats distribution as something you should script once, not babysit every time you ship.

Krisp Mobile Call Recorder lets you place outgoing calls from the Krisp app and saves the whole thing for later. It records the call, turns it into a transcript, and auto-generates short notes with key points and action items that sync across mobile and desktop. Right now it works with US numbers, with more regions on the way.

🔥 Our Take: Phone calls are still where a lot of real decisions happen, usually while you are walking, half distracted, and nowhere near a notebook. This is basically a safety net for those what did we actually agree on moments so you are not digging through memory or sending follow up texts to confirm basic details.