Llama Life with Marie Ng
Episode description
Marie joins Benedicte and Benedikt to discuss building Llama Life, a productivity app centered around focus and fun, in public.
- Follow Marie on Twitter
- Llama Life — work through your to-do list with focus and fun
- First version of Llama Life
- www.fidgetpage.com — a small project that drives Llama Life traffic
Llama Life is a web-based productivity tool that Marie built to help you work through a to-do list, not just build one. While she isn't new to startups, she is new to coding. Self-taught and working as a solo founder until recently, Marie reminds herself that indie hacking on Llama Life is a dream job that combines design, marketing, and her newfound capabilities in software development.
Moving quickly as both the designer and developer, Marie continued to build Llama Life after finding early encouragement on Twitter. The product started simple and grew to include authentication, a database, and payments. While the productivity application space is crowded, she built Llama Life out of her own needs. When diagnosed with ADHD, Marie became obsessed with solving for focus and attention and needed a tool that allowed for setting quick timers and one that was also fun.
Listen in to learn the story behind the fun branding, how Marie leverages her marketing strengths, and what's ahead for Llama Life!