FocusFlow: A Minimalist Deep Work Dashboard Built for a Friend

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What I Built I built FocusFlow, a premium, distraction-free productivity dashboard engineered to trigger and sustain the "Flow State." I originally built this for my friend, who struggles heavily with ADHD and context-switching fatigue. They were constantly getting distracted because their workflow required juggling four different apps: a Pomodoro timer, a Spotify window, a Trello Kanban board, and a day planner. Every time they switched tabs to change a song or check a task, they lost their focus. FocusFlow solves this by consolidating everything into a single, sleek, horizontal interface. It

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