MNMatthew Nolan

Work / Product

ClarityOS

An ADHD daily operating system. Shipped, then shelved.

Status
SHELVED Shipped, then stopped on purpose.
My role
Everything.
Built with
Next.js · Cloudflare · Supabase · Stripe
See it
Private. The architecture below is the evidence.

01The problem

ADHD brains freeze when everything feels equally urgent. A to-do list with 47 items isn’t help. It’s a catalog of shame.

02The idea

Four gates: Capture everything, Classify it, Eliminate what doesn’t need you today, Reflect without streaks or guilt. End with one clear next move.

03The build

A full product: marketing site, working app, sign-in, payments.

04The decisions

Stopped. Didn’t keep polishing something nobody had asked for.

Kept the substance. The four-gate thinking and the attention-first design law went into LOADLESS.

05The failures

Launch produced zero traffic and zero interest.

Along the way I collected duplicate repositories and deployments for the same product. Cleaning that up took a whole night.

06The result

Shelved October 3, 2026.

07What I learned

Shipped is not the same as wanted. I built the product before I built the audience.