YearView

Most calendars zoom in. YearView zooms out. See your entire year at once. Plan with clarity, not clutter. PS: First 100 get 1 month free. Then it’s $1/mo. Refer a friend — you both get a free month. Reply YEAR and I’ll DM the promo code to the first 100 people that reply.

@PachoNids thanks pacho — the hardest part of building this app has honestly been resisting the urge to add features. every "what if we also…" gets a no by default.

@YearView love that! less is definitely more!

Quarterly Planning Framework: 1. Revenue targets. 2. Team capacity. 3. Systems improvements. 4. Risk assessment.

the longer i build a yearly planner the more convinced i am that the calendar's job isn't to fill your year. it's to protect the parts you didn't think you'd need to defend.

@Krishna2008SR gonna push back a little here. planning is procrastination only when it's open ended. give it a 25 min timer and a single output (one page, one list, whatever) and it stops being a hiding place. the trap isn't planning, it's planning without a deadline.

Day 25: Stuck in the plans. Spent today making roadmaps instead of nodes. Planning is just "productive" procrastination if you don't ship. Breaking the cycle tonight by starting Python basics. Tomorrow, we stop planning and start coding. #BuildInPublic #Python #Day25

@nikolam_dev writing things down to track yourself is honestly the highest leverage planning habit there is.

Day 98: From Unlucky → Undeniable ✓Finished processing my SQL notes ✓Strengthened my planning habits ✓Wrote things down to keep track of what I'm doing, making it easier to recognize my own progress ✓I'm still recovering from my eyes #BuildInPublic #LearningInPublic

@VicksonETP yeah the calendar has basically become a rolling 90-day thing now. building a yearly planner i keep wrestling with this — people still want the long view, they just don't want to be locked into it. soft annual, hard quarterly is where i've landed.

claude release cadence is compressing. sonnet 4→4.5: 130 days. opus 4.5→4.6: 73 days. opus 4.6→4.7: 59 days. if you're pinning model versions in prod, plan for quarterly upgrades minimum. annual planning is cooked x.com/hridoyreh/stat…

@PachoNids the framework you posted is solid btw — we just keep finding that the best operators add a column for what they're willing to *not* do that quarter. subtraction is its own kpi.

@YearView 100%

@thekelechianita monthly plans almost always beat quarterly ones for me. closer feedback loop.

I had a plan for the month of April and I stuck to it and saw it through till the end. Now let's double down and hit our Q2 goals faster.

This is the month of May. Happy new month to all my Luxury enthusiasts and Clients. April was a good month for me.

@JulesMandoX kids force the constraint that turns most indie hackers into shippers. you stop optimizing for 8-hour deep work blocks and start respecting the 90-minute window. the plan gets simpler because it has to.

Day 35 after ground start: have you ever seen an indie hacker / solopreneur succeed with children? I’m looking for excuses.

the first feature we cut from yearview was the daily todo list. nobody opens a yearly calendar to plan tuesday. they open it to remember they have a life.

@MsssCarr this honestly changed how i think about quarterly planning. retrospective > prospective.

A quarterly audit of how you spent your time is more honest than any goal setting session.

@MaxMusing honestly the shorter the team, the more a yearly view actually helps — not for tasks, just so you don't accidentally pivot four times in march.

quarterly planning is dead for small teams. when a 4-week feature takes 2 days to build, planning 3 months ahead is a waste of time. you're basically guessing what problems you'll care about in a world that moves weekly. we dropped quarterly planning at Basedash entirely. just sprint to sprint. ship faster, re-evaluate constantly. the roadmap is whatever we decide matters this week.

@HudBeer agree on shipping > planning, but i think there's a middle ground. a loose yearly view of themes (not tasks) keeps me from drifting without locking me into obsolete plans. the plan isn't the artifact, the direction is.

Stopped quarterly planning 3 years ago. 127+ commits/month now. Iteration beats prediction. Ship broken. Find what breaks. Fix. Repeat. The plan becomes obsolete faster than you can write it.

@tech_summaries only at the top of the funnel. for the rest of us building small useful things, capital was never the game. the most durable apps i love still got there one careful feature at a time.

$2 billion. That is the valuation for Parallel Web Systems today, just five months after their last raise. The agentic gold rush is here. When valuations move this fast, the game stops being about shipping features and starts being about capital.

@schoopydobloop honestly the thing that's worked best for me isn't promotion, it's just being a real person in conversations adjacent to the problem the app solves. people don't click ads, they click humans they recognize.

Indie app devs, how do you go about promoting your apps? #indieapp #devs #apps #software

@ant_murphy curious how AI changed the synthesis vs the surfacing. for me the value of quarterly review was always the act of slowly remembering. when AI does the remembering, does the insight still land the same way?

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@Hazel52389 @JacobHEvans true but i think there's a difference between planning and overplanning. 30 mins zooming out a year saves me from a hundred bad weekly decisions. the trap is when planning becomes the work.

@JacobHEvans Most people delay execution by overplanning when action is what actually reveals real opportunities

Hot take: You already have the knowledge to start a profitable business. Procrastination hides behind planning.

@MindXacademy neurological protection is the right frame. same reason zooming out to a yearly view helps me, less context switching between calendars, todo lists, and "what season am i in"

The hidden cost of context switching for ADHD entrepreneurs: Every task change costs 20 mins to re-enter flow. 10 switches a day = 3+ hours of lost deep work. Time blocking isn't a productivity hack. It's neurological protection.

weeks lie. months blur. but the year, when you can actually see all 12 at once, has a shape. you can feel where the heavy months are before they crush you. that's the only kind of planning that's ever worked for me.

@MaxMusing weekly is real, yearly is shape. it's the messy middle (quarters) that always lies