Why RTO is happening
- Leaders are afraid of remote productivity after too many bad stories in the press.
- Remote habits are hard: Async, managing on outcomes, building trust.
- Existing tools are either too invasive or not useful enough.
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Your work weekIn office vs remote
In office29h total
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Remote34h total
19h
8h
7h
FocusMeetingsMessaging
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How you can stay at home
- DoneThat makes it easy to build trust by sharing an "AI proof-of-work".
- DoneThat automates async, keeps track of achievements, and builds trust.
- DoneThat balances signal with noise. Only share high-level summaries. Keep detailed data private.
Why RTO is happening
How you can stay at home
Leaders are afraid of remote productivity after too many bad stories in the press.
DoneThat makes it easy to build trust by sharing an "AI proof-of-work".
Remote habits are hard: Async, managing on outcomes, building trust.
DoneThat automates async, keeps track of achievements, and builds trust.
Existing tools are either too invasive or not useful enough.
DoneThat balances signal with noise. Only share high-level summaries. Keep detailed data private.
How to start
Trust takes months to build and seconds to break. This only works if you are ready to work from home, not chill from home.
Start using DoneThat in the office
Pitch it as a fun idea to try. Use email or Slack integration to share your summaries.
Monday12 Aug
Focus: 4.1hMeetings: 2.2hMessaging: 1.3h
- Onboarding rewrite, pass 2Product2.2h
- Release reviewProduct1.2h
- Reviewed design feedbackProduct1h
- Support threads in SlackSupport1.3h
- Inbox and follow-upsSupport48m
- Roadmap notesGrowth1.1h
Propose to do an experiment
Could you be even more productive at home? Without distractions and commute.
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Work location will be included in your insights.
Let the facts speak for themselves
The data will show that you are just as productive from home, so why not stay with that.
Your work weekIn office vs remote
In office29h total
10h
14h
5h
Remote34h total
19h
8h
7h
FocusMeetingsMessaging
How it works
The desktop app watches the work quietly. Every frame it captures lands as a five-minute sliver on your day. At the end of the day they merge into the tasks you actually did.
What the app sees. Screenshots are read, then deleted.
Tuesday
Paired on the capture sync bug1.5h
Investor update call1h
Roadmap doc1h
Two engineer interviews2h
Triaged bug reports in Slack1.5h
Shipped the retry queue1h
For people who deliver
“I've tried numerous time tracking apps and DoneThat is somehow both effortless and accurate.”
“AI-Automations are here to stay. But what to automate? DoneThat shows me how much time each process takes.”
“It was amazing to see an accurate picture of how many hours I work and what I did, and how often I switch between tasks. All that without having to track time!”
“DoneThat helps me stay honest about what I'm actually getting done and set more realistic daily goals.”
Lucor
“I am OBSESSED! DoneThat enabled me to reflect on the day's activities and tailor my next day's priorities.”
“DoneThat has become my quiet coach. It helps me see where my time really goes and how my focus shifts week to week.”
Volitor.AI
“I love it, I can update everyone what I'm doing again, as it's taking me literally zero time and effort now!”
Independent
“It's actually fascinating how much I did not remember what I did for the last few hours.”
“Really freeing my brain up from manually time tracking (which I have resolved but frequently failed to do before).”
A note from Christoph
I wish we lived in a world where everybody could work remotely with the best practices we know: async updates, managing on outcomes, regular team retreats. All the good stuff.
Unfortunately we don't live in that world: async is hard to keep up with, managing on outcomes is even harder, and the retreats take lots of time to organise.
The usual answer to this is: "Just hire the right people." Or: "Just apply to remote-first companies." The problem is: there aren't enough of either. And the trend is a return to the office.
What I hope to add with DoneThat is to make remote easier for the 90% of people and companies that find it hard, and to create an RTO alternative.
I can't fix the team retreats (happy to connect you to somebody) but what I can do is make it really easy to get visibility and trust, with minimal trade-offs.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this!
Founder, DoneThat
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