JotChain

Project Overview

I’ve been working in fast-paced startups for 10 years now, and I’ve noticed it’s really hard to keep up with all the stuff I do. Sometimes it’s tough to recall everything by the end of the week (EOW), and it’s annoying when you have to show it off in a meeting or during a performance review.

I tried taking notes on paper, in Notion, Obsidian, Markdown files, and whatnot, but they all either got lost or I simply forgot to keep up with them.

That’s why I decided to take action and build this small tool: JotChain. It lets you jot down quick notes throughout the day, then uses AI to turn them into polished summaries delivered via scheduled email notifications whenever you want them (e.g., right before your stand-up or weekly sync).

Here’s how it works in a nutshell:

• Log wins, blockers, and context in a simple plain-text field (takes ~2 minutes, hit Cmd/Ctrl + Enter to save with optional tags).

• Set your cadence: daily, weekly, monthly, or custom, with timezone, lookback window, and lead time.

• Get AI-generated emails: Structured briefs with sections, key stats, and highlights (e.g., “Completed auth refactor, fixed 5 bugs, reviewed 12 PRs. Blocker: Database performance”).

It turned out to be quite helpful for me, and I’m planning to introduce more features gradually to make building the habit even easier.

Launch (03-11-2025)

Launch went relatively well, I had no high hopes on it since I launched Waytale before that and had almost no traffic. Same happend here, I launched it on X and HN, but got just 81 visit with no conversions.

Well… That’s not that bad, at least someone checked it out and we can probably tell that the problem is in landing page itself, I plan to add one more feature I really need and then record a nice video for a hero section which hopefully will make people understand what product actually does.

Another idea I got today is that I can turn it into PWA with local-first approach, that way I don’t have to build a separate app but can simply use same codebase for both “desktop app” and web version.

Let’s see what happens next…

Framing adjustment (30-12-2025)

For the past two months I’ve been thinking of a way to repurpose this project. You see, it felt good, but overwhelming without a clear purpose. When you build something and it’s not giving you value right away (generate photo, listen to audioguide, etc.) it’s hardly passing the “I’d pay for it” bar for the potential clients. Same happened to this product, it did something, but it was not there right away, you can get performance review, but in couple months only, would it be good though? So I started thinking about it again and then it just clicked out of nowhere. I figured that I want to know where my time goes, why am I not happy with current flow, why am I tired and my focus goes everywhere expect endeauvours which matter the most right now. Even though it’s not a good framing I’m still gonna say it, I called it “whoop but for work”.

The idea is simple, you note stuff about work and immediately get an output if it sees a pattern. And as a bonus you can generate performance review later if you need one.

That’s essentially what I’ve been working on for the past couple months and I expect to put it live at the beginning of January 2026.