u/louislubin

Hey there

I’m building Still Cloud which is a personal intelligence platform designed to help people understand the patterns behind their behavior.
The basic idea is that most of our data lives in separate places. Sleep, routines, workouts, spending, mood, goals, calendar, habits, etc. still cloud brings those signals together and tries to answer a more useful question… what is actually affecting my life, and what should I do differently?

The product is live and I’m currently in the validation stage, working with early users and figuring out where the strongest retention and willingness to pay actually are.

I’m also beginning to explore a pre seed round to give me enough runway to improve the product, tighten the onboarding/retention loop, and acquire paying users.

I’m not expecting someone to invest because of a Reddit post. I’d actually love to connect with angels or early stage founders who have raised at this stage and are willing to tell me what they’d need to see before taking a company like this seriously.

If the product itself sounds interesting to you, I’m also happy to share the deck privately.

Would especially appreciate feedback on what milestones you’d want to see before investing at pre seed…

So… I’ve noticed that most productivity advice focuses on building the perfect routine, but almost nobody talks about the moment the routine starts breaking and falling apart around you and you just give up by not even thinking about it anymore…

it’s never just I got lazy or something like that

It’s usually something that happens way before: poor sleep, money stress, an unexpected schedule change, one difficult conversation, or missing one important task and mentally abandoning the whole week…

By the time I notice, I’m already lying around wondering how I went from doing well to doing nothing in my bed or room, just rotting…

Anyway, I’m curious:

When your routine, habit system, Notion setup, workout plan, or personal goals fall apart, what usually happened in the day or two before it?
And can you normally see the pattern, or does it feel random every time?

I’m especially interested in the small triggers people usually overlook… not just the obvious answer like I lost motivation… we know that… what else? Give me juicy details.

Last night i looked around my room. My gym bag was packed but sitting untouched. My laptop had 31 tabs open... a half finished coding project, a draft of a story I haven't touched in weeks, and three different articles I swore I’d read.

I felt like a complete failure. I told myself I was just lazy.

But I realized something. It’s not that I want to do nothing. It’s that I want to do everything...

we call ourselves lazy, but it's actually ambition paralysis. I want to be the fit guy, the successful founder, the well read writer, the relaxed friend. Because yI can't be all of them at exactly 8:00 AM on a Tuesday, my brain panics. It refuses to choose. So instead of doing one thing poorly, I sit on the couch, scroll on m phone, and do nothing perfectly...

You end up living an unfinished life. A disappointing graveyard of open loops...

The question that finally broke this loop for me wasn't How do I get more disciplined? or What's the perfect morning routine?

It was this: What did I actually do this month?

I stopped looking at my intentions and started looking at where my hours actually went. It was annoying, because my hours told a much more honest story than my goals did. But it helped me see the season I was already in, instead of trying to restart my whole life every single Monday. Your hours aren't judging you... It literally can't... They are just showing you what you are doing

Has anyone else felt this specific type of paralysis? How do you forgive yourself for the versions of your life you aren't living right now?...

I’m looking for a good marketer for social media platforms that takes revenue share during launch.

I’ve looked online but only found agencies that do email campaigns and some do socials but not exactly what I’m looking for.

I was hoping this community would know more about this and point me in the right direction. A small agency or even solo marketers would be great finds. I’m not sure if there’s a site or a community that would even offer those services. But I hope someone here can help me find something.

Okay… so on the surface, I do things and seem like I have it together but in reality I actually don’t…. For context, I am a founder of a startup and a grad student who’s also teaching martial arts in NYC…

I know it sounds like a lot but I feel like I have no motivation or energy to do anything… I go to sleep at 3 am, wake up between 9 and 11 am… go to work, go to class then go home… when I’m home, I sit in my bed all day and watch YouTube or stream shows so then I have to get myself out of the funk to do simple tasks like cooking or washing my face or going out to get food or really anything…

I have to go to work cause I live alone and have no support financially. If I don’t work, I don’t make money and can’t pay the NYC rent but it’s a struggle… the commute drains me, the subway system sucks and I hate being in Manhattan…

I used to be the gifted kid man… now I’m barely surviving… I know others are struggling with a far more acute version of what I’m dealing with and others might have different experiences all together but it makes me sad sometimes watching my day just fall apart even though I used to be a high functioning child… idk, just a rant…

I'm a solo founder. I’ve been sitting on the philosophy for this app for almost a decade, and thanks to modern AI tools, I finally managed to build it by myself.

It's a beautifully designed product that uses Al to map your daily patterns from a 30 second voice dump. I called it stillcloud.app

The Ul is locked in… The backend is enterprise grade and ready to scale, I even have End to End Encryption wired up…

The problem? I am a builder, not a marketer.
I know I need to start posting on TikTok, Youtube shorts, and reels. I know I need to sell the anti hustle philosophy behind it but staring at a blank social media calendar is paralyzing me ngl…

For the solo founders here who successfully transitioned from building in the dark to
marketing in the light what was your Day 1?
Did you just start talking to your phone? Did you document the build?

I need to rip the bandaid off this week and I'd love to know what actually moved the needle for you early on.

So I’ve been working on this thing called Still Cloud.

The basic idea came from me being frustrated with normal habit trackers. They’re useful for showing that I missed something, but they don’t really help me understand why the day went off track in the first place.

For example, a bad day for me usually isn’t just I was lazy.

It’s more like:

wake up late, skip food, might be low energy, then I avoid the first task, scroll too long on insta or TikTok, feel behind, miss my workout and routine, tell myself I’ll restart tomorrow…

That’s the pattern I wanted to understand….

So Still Cloud is built around this idea of a “core drill.” You tell it what your day looked like, and it tries to pull out the signals, patterns, and possible first domino. Then it turns those into a private visual map called the Cloud Matrix.

The goal isn’t to shame you with streaks or give some fake productivity score. It’s more like:

What made today harder?
What keeps repeating?
What small move would interrupt the spiral earlier next time?

It’s still early, and I know there are rough edges/bugs. Some parts may feel too broad right now, which is actually one of the main things I’m trying to test. But if you understand it and use it, you eventually get a cloud that looks futuristic and intimately yours. Not the main point and you don’t need it to use the app but I want cool stuff so…. It’s there…

I’m looking for people who are willing to try it and give honest feedback, especially around:

Does the bad-day test make sense?
Does the app explain the chain clearly?
Does the Cloud Matrix feel useful or confusing?
Would you actually come back and log another day?
Is this solving a real problem?

After using it myself, I can’t bring myself to delete the version I was testing because it feels like an extension of me even though it’s not even remotely perfect… idk…

The site is: stillcloud.app

Anyway, I’d really appreciate brutal but constructive feedback. I’m trying to figure out if this is actually useful for people beyond just me.

If anyone wants to test the full version and give honest feedback, use code ALPHA-100 for free for 3 months for early tester access.(100 spots)

I appreciate you guys!

You get a habit tracker, you log things for 2 days, then you never open the app again… why? I think it’s cause it doesn’t really have any context on your life and its different facets… it doesn’t know that you woke up late and therefore might feel bad for wasting your day… or that you stayed up playing video game til 3 am and had no motivation to do anything all day cause you were doomscrolling the moment you wake up…

I wanted something that could understand my life in context and not only that but be able to show me the real relationship between my different habits and routine and things that triggers a lack of work or motivation… something that could show me myself and actually help me make sense of who I am…

I tried notion and atoms and even habitica but I used them for like 3 days, 5 max and never use them again… I think a journal worked best for me cause I like the feeling of writing things down but again, I look at it, it doesn’t do much…

I guess I expected cooler tech that would actually show me who I was… idk if anyone read this book but it was super interesting and it was back in 2017… it’s called The Virtual Self by Nora Young and it’s not a big book but I had hoped by now we would get those kinds of self tracking tools you know?….

If you know good trackers that can actually give you a wholistic view of yourself, let me know but I had to make my own… feel free to check it out. The link is in my bio.

But what I really want to know if, what do you guys want to track? How in depth do you want to or willing to input your patterns and what insights would you want to get from the data gathered?

Is there a limit to what you would log if you had the ability to keep everything on your device and encrypted?

I built a product. It’s not my first and unlikely to be my last but I have the problem most builders do… I don’t know what tf I’m doing in terms of getting eyes on it or users… I’m trying social media and I’m trying out other methods but I woke up today thinking maybe like any other job or skill I need to hone, I need a mentor or someone who knows the direction I’m heading and can provide guidance and help.

I’m looking for books or resources that helped you get a better grasp on marketing, anything that may have helped you get the aha moment…

I know it’s basically looking for some cheat sheet or something but then again, consistency is probably key with social media but… idk. What are your thoughts on this and any advice or resources that could help me understand the space is welcomed!

Hey guys! Built this app cause I was struggling with keeping up with my daily routine and life but a habit tracker doesn’t tell me why my days keep falling apart… it doesn’t help me understand where things got away from me or what habits are keeping me in the loop… stillcloud.lovable.app is the answer to that problem. I tell it my day, it finds the patterns and gives me one way to interrupt it…

After so many people provided feedback on the app and the language, I wanted to do one more showcase of the latest version to hear what everyone thinks.

The vibers on here are making amazing products and doing amazing work! But the issue I’m noticing isn’t good or bad quality products, it’s the overwhelming use of Ai to talk to one another about the product we are creating!

I think most people would have made so much more progress if they just talked to people like real human beings instead of trying to sell something…

Reddit is amazing for getting feedback and engagement on your site to figure out what’s breaking your product, if it’s a market fit, if you are having an effective marketing strategy, do people understand it or do you need to tighten the language? In a single thread, redditers love giving advice and feedback, good or bad you need feedback to develop your products!!!!!

I was able to polish my site to production readiness only because I was a regular person who wanted advice… not a robot looking for customers… try it yall… be real and human…

I feel like eventually we would get something like this that manipulates people though their data and eventually deteriorate free will or maybe a self imposed deterministic loop? idk I was just watching the last season, and the dude running it all was himself being told what to do by an AI and I thought aww man... could someone really give up their free will if it meant that they could choose a quantifiable path or life narrative? is there an alternative to this? like at the end of the day, is that what we are trying to do? Is.... there even "free will?"... I'm being too philosophical aren't i?....

So I built this really complex web app thats supposed to be a personal operating system... the idea is that you track your routines, meals, gym, anything that's relevant to your daily life and it learns your behavior, populate this 3D cloud I called a cloud matrix(a representation of your digital self that shows you how your data links to each other...) and gives you suggestions based on the predictions it makes... so like, if you normally eat something sugary before bed and end up waking up low energy or something, it would eventually know the correlation and provide you with nudges or suggestions on how to improve...

Problem is, I don't know how to market it or to who... I'm not sure where to start and lowkey like most other builders, I can create products that just sits there collecting dust....

I launched it on product hunt today and posted it on twitter, reddit, etc but have no idea how to move forward... Any suggestions? Someone on reddit told me I need a growth marketer but I'm not even sure where to even look for that...

feel free to leave any suggestions on where to look for a growth hacker/marketer in the comments or anything else that comes to mind! Would love to hear your thoughts!