Kiki
The accountability monster for people who are easily distracted.
- Company we built
- Kiki is a Mac focus app for people who get easily distracted. Pick what you’re working on and which apps you need; Kiki keeps everything else out of the way and holds you to it.
- Impact
- Thousands of people use Kiki to stay focused and finish what they start.
- Stage
- Ongoing
- Links
- kiki.computer
I’d blocked Instagram and Twitter years ago and was still losing whole afternoons, sitting down to write and surfacing two hours later having reorganized my Notion. No blocker catches that, because it looks exactly like work.
Step 1:Choose your task
Step 2:Pick your apps
Step 3:Focus, or else.
How it works
Tell Kiki the one thing you're going to do. Pick only the apps and sites you need. Set your time, hit start. Open something you don’t need and Kiki lights it on fire.
Drift off and Kiki reacts: flips your lights, sets things on fire, shares its opinions, because a character can say things a notification never could.
Kiki works alongside you the whole session, typing away, so focus feels like company instead of surveillance.
“It’s playful, but it actually works.”
“I didn’t expect how attached I’d get to this little character.”
“Kiki is helpful for sneaky stuff like email, Slack, ‘productive’ procrastination.”
“Working feels less lonely with Kiki there.”
Kiki tracks how focused you actually were, per session and over time, for the gap between “I’ve been working” and the truth.
