Doneas

Doneas is an accountability and productivity tool built for solo builders — people working alone on products who need structure to keep shipping. It combines three things: a weekly planning board that locks on Monday, a fifteen-minute daily accountability call with five other builders, and a public progress page that records what you actually shipped. The stated purpose is to help builders stay accountable, stay productive, and turn weekly plans into real progress, so they plan less, focus better, and ship more. Instead of being another place to store ideas, Doneas is organized around one repeating loop — plan on Sunday, lock on Monday, ship Monday through Friday, reflect on Friday — and around a small circle of peers who notice when you go quiet. Doneas opens with a blunt diagnosis: five projects, zero finished. The site names three specific ways solo builders fail — re-planning with AI instead of doing the work, letting every new idea hijack the current one, and having nobody notice when you don't show up — and says most builders have all three. Those failure modes share a common cause: a plan that can change at any moment, and no external party who cares whether it does. Doneas attacks both. The weekly board freezes at Monday noon so the plan cannot quietly shift, and the five-person circle plus a public record make a missed day visible. The point, as the site puts it, is that being seen is the mechanism. The first mechanism is the week. On Sunday you plan: you pull your best tasks from a Later list into the coming week, with the explicit instruction to take no more than you can genuinely ship. Tasks carry tags — Launch, Product and Growth — and sit under the day you intend to work them, with an hours budget shown per day (for example 5h / 5h) and a weekly total such as 9.5h planned against a 25h budget. On Monday at noon the week locks. The board freezes: no shuffling, no "just one more thing" — or if something is added, it wears a badge marking it as a late addition. A countdown shows when the lock takes effect, and next week's draft sits alongside the live week so future tasks have somewhere to go without disturbing the one you committed to. The second mechanism is the circle. Every weekday, for fifteen minutes, the same five builders meet. Each person answers three things: what you shipped, what's next today, what's blocking. In the example shown on the site, builders report shipping Stripe checkout with webhooks included, writing up churn interviews, or recording a demo — and equally, reporting that nothing shipped because a client fire ate the day. The call is small and fixed: five builders, fifteen minutes, the same group for a month, with a replay available. Declared time off never counts against you — say you're away and the day is marked as such, so a planned absence is not a no-show. A missed call, by contrast, is visible to your circle, on the grid, and on your record. Three misses and you're out until you reactivate; twice a year you can let yourself back in, and after that a peer has to vouch for you. The third mechanism is the record. Every task you ship lands on a page with your name on it — doneas.com/@yourhandle. That page shows shipped tasks, focused hours, a Dailies percentage (93% in the example), an on-time percentage (88%), a day streak (27), a project count, and a shipping cadence measured in weeks (12 weeks). A "where the work goes" breakdown splits effort across Launch, Product and Growth (35%, 45% and 20% in the example), and a "recently shipped" list shows individual tasks with the day they were completed. Daily calls get their own twelve-week streak grid. The page also carries a short statement, location, builder number and an "open to chat" flag. The site is explicit that the record contains nothing you type — only what you did. Every section has a switch, so projects, calls or shipped tasks can be hidden whenever you like. Taken together, the product is a four-step loop: Plan on Sunday, Lock on Monday at noon, Ship Monday to Friday, Reflect on Friday. What makes the approach distinctive is the lock and the audience. Most planning tools assume the plan is a document you revise; Doneas assumes the plan is a commitment you make in front of people who will notice if you break it. The lock removes the option of reorganizing instead of executing, the daily call puts a face and a fixed time against your tasks, and the public page converts a week of work into a record that exists whether or not you feel productive. Each part reinforces the others: the Later list keeps distractions out of the locked week, the badge makes late additions visible, and the Friday reflection moves what shipped onto your public page while what didn't gets carried over by hand. The stated benefits follow directly: plan less, focus better, ship more. Locking a week removes the daily overhead of deciding what to work on and the temptation to re-plan. A fixed fifteen-minute call creates a deadline early enough in the day to shape it, and a five-person circle supplies the specific accountability that an audience of strangers cannot. The public record gives builders evidence of progress — shipped counts, focused hours, streaks — at moments when the work itself feels invisible. The miss policy, including the three-strike rule and the peer-vouch reactivation, keeps the commitment meaningful rather than optional, while declared time off means planned breaks are marked rather than treated as failures. Concrete scenarios appear throughout the site. A builder preparing a launch can put a pricing page, a transactional email migration to Resend, churn interviews and a mobile nav fix into one week, tag each as Launch, Product or Growth, and work them inside a daily hour budget. Someone whose new ideas keep hijacking the current one can park them in the Later list and pull only what fits on Sunday. A builder who is traveling can declare time off so the day is marked rather than missed. A founder who wants external pressure — the site quotes one who hired an assistant whose only job was to call every morning and ask what they'd get done — can use the daily call for the same effect. And a builder who wants visible proof of momentum can point people at a public page that lists every shipped task. Doneas is aimed at solo builders, entrepreneurs and indie founders — people building alone who want accountability and a record rather than a team dashboard. Product Hunt lists it under Productivity and Developer Tools. It runs on the web at doneas.com. Pricing is stated plainly: 30 days free, then $25 a month, cancel anytime — and your page stays. Starting a first week is free, with registration through a single sign-up link. The takeaway is straightforward. Doneas does not try to be a better task manager; it tries to make the week you committed to hard to abandon. A locked plan, five people who notice, and a public record of what shipped together form a simple system for turning weekly plans into real progress — plan less, focus better, ship more.