Participated in public demo 2607 with One Small Step
August 21, 2026

The problem [00:00:20] Jenniffer identified task paralysis, the specific freeze right before starting a task, distinct from general procrastination, as the problem worth solving, showing up either as a task that feels too big to begin or several queued tasks she can't choose between; existing to-do and reminder tools only reminded her a task existed but never helped her actually start it. What they built [00:01:40] She built One Small Step, an AI agent that lives in Telegram: it takes whatever task or promise a user is avoiding, asks at most one clarifying question, and commits to one small, concrete first step that's startable within two minutes. It breaks larger goals into milestone checklists, follows up without guilt if the user gets distracted, flags close deadline conflicts, and tracks progress on a private per-user dashboard. What happened [00:04:20] She evaluated the tool honestly against her own bar of 75%: across 13 real tasks, 9 passed (69%), including most of the large, multi-session tasks the tool exists to handle. A real user testing the assistant surfaced two genuine issues, the bot not using her name, and two check-ins landing close together, which turned out to be two correctly-firing but unexplained notification paths (a scheduled check-in sweep and a separate custom reminder), leading her to conclude that 'proactive, not naggy' is something to keep testing rather than decide once. She also flagged a known production risk: SQLite over a Cloud Storage volume lacks true file locking, logged and tracked (GitHub #15) rather than hidden. The ask [00:06:10] She's asking for feedback on production-readiness from people hiring for applied AI / agent engineering roles, plus collaborators interested in using or helping extend the project, closing on 'It's not finished. It's already useful, and I need help making it better.'
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