Meet the #1 ADHD Coaching Platform’s newest experience — Body Doubling for ADHD. We’ve infused the 6 ADHD motivators to supercharge a popular co-working strategy for getting things done.Thanks @mwseibel for hunting us!
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer (#1 ADHD Coaching Platform). I’m super stoked to share something we’ve been testing & iterating on with our members for a while!
✨ Quick refresher on Shimmer: In ‘22 I was diagnosed with ADHD. I was handed some Adderall and sent off to fend for myself. After many hours of rabbit holing, I discovered ADHD coaching which was perfect in principle but way too expensive and the options were ancient—so we created Shimmer v0, amassed a waitlist, got me in as the first client, ran a private no-code beta, then launched in a matter of weeks!
✨ Fast forward 18 months, and we’ve had the privilege of serving over 31,000 sessions and thousands of clients, while staying in lockstep with member needs & feedback each step of the way. We stood up & deprecated many experiments, but the one that has lasted and evolved through them all is… body doubling!
If you’re new to ADHD lingo, body doubling is basically a fancy word for co-working, except you can apply it to anything that gives you positive social accountability, and makes a way bigger difference for us with ADHD. Doing laundry next to a friend, calling your mom while you clean, working at a coffee shop, logging on to Shimmer Body Doubling as a Shimmer Coach hosts a session—pick your poison ☠️
We created body doubling after our members had been asking for it for a while, but found shortcomings in other body doubling options. So we did what we do best, we leveraged the latest in behavioral & ADHD science to create an ADHD-informed way of doing body doubling.
We explored ways to infused the ADHD motivators—interest, urgency, newness, accountability, challenge, and community—into body doubling. Check out the video to learn more about how the experience flows 🎉
We’re excited for the Product Hunt Community to check us out and let us know if you have any questions! ❤️
With love, Chris Wang
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❗A few disclaimers, Shimmer:
- is NOT a medical service or substitute for therapy/medical advice
- is for adults with ADHD who are ready to make positive, goal-oriented changes in their life
- does not diagnose or require you to have a formal diagnose. However, if you’re curious for a directional indication, the WHO quiz is here: https://www.shimmer.care/adhd-ov...
📖 Read about the full rationale, problems we’re solving, and more in our blog post here: https://www.shimmer.care/blog/ad...
💰Quick note on our packages
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All packages include the Shimmer app & support services
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Only difference is weekly face-time with coach: Essentials (15-min/week, $140/mo.), Standard (30-min/week, $230/mo.), Immersive (45-min/week, $345/mo.) ❤️
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Exclusively get 30% off first month with code PHBODYDOUBLING until Sep 12@christal The best part? I can use this for any task, from cleaning to work. Well done 👍@max_savonin1 Hi Max, thanks so much for this thoughtful comments. I have a few answers here, and I'll re-direct to the dev team @vikram_sreedhar & @anthony_lin on the technical parts!
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Shimmer actually only matches participants with coaches for 1:1 coaching sessions, where the ongoing rapport is important for the coaching relationship to flourish. For the body doubling sessions, members tune into whichever ones match their schedule, with some (not all) having a theme. In the future when we're hosting more, we'll definitely be doing more of "body doubling for taxes", "body doubling for entrepreneurship", "body doubling for laundry"
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Yes! After coaching sessions and body doubling sessions, and when members have been with Shimmer for 1, 3 months, we ask them science-backed assessment questions that help them understand how their life has changed (executive functioning skills, impairment), relationship with their coach, capacity for change, and more.
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For now, coaches host the body doubling experience because in case there is any situation that requires moderation or escalation, the coaches are trained to handle these situations. In the future, we may consider doing light training for member facilitation but that isn't in the plans just yet!@christal @dhruv_n1 Body doubling has been a huge game changer when it comes to cleaning- many members use the time to fold their laundry! It's nice to have people there for the challenging tasks that take more motivation to get doneThis looks pretty interesting. Is it also suitable for people who do not have ADHD but ADT [Attention Deficit Trait]? Would like to hear a note on this topic from the expert because I am close to it. Appreciate the idea, guys. Good luck! 🙂@busmark_w_nika 100%, our platform is neurodivergent-friendly, which is rooted in executive function challenges and thinking differently, in a nutshell. But we have folks who are autistic, AuDHD (autistic + ADHD), dyslexic, and other types of neurodivergences on our platform!Hi Chris, this sounds like a fantastic initiative! Shimmer Body Doubling seems to be a game-changer for those with ADHD needing that extra bit of motivation. How have your members responded to the body doubling sessions so far?@alex_dulub Thanks so much! Check out our testimonials on the last pages there. They are quite moving! My favorite are well people say things like "I've got more done in the last hour than the last few days combined" (which happens way more frequently than you'd think!). We build every aspect of this experience alongside our members, based on their feedback, interviews with them, and requests! We're excited to continue building this with our members!Chris and the Shimmer team are AMAZING, I can't say enough good things! And as someone who was also diagnosed ADHD later in life, I can confirm body doubling definitely works for me! Love this so much. Keep up the awesome work team!@threehourcoffee Ah, Marie! Thank you SO MUCH! YOUR team is amazing!!! Thank you for the kind words and I'm always looking forward to Llama life updates (on email or IG) — your team is killing it!
