nudge — Tokyo Solo Builder's PH Debut: AI Auto-Schedules Your Whole Week

$5 First Month

nudge is the Product Hunt debut of Shun, a 20-year-old engineering student in Tokyo who built it solo. Pricing card fits in one line: $5 first month, $9/mo after, $5/mo for verified students. The pitch fits in one line too: "a week-long schedule in 10 seconds."

Five-Second Summary

Drop a task list (text or voice). The AI fits each task into open calendar slots, working around deadlines, real-life commitments, and your time-of-day focus pattern. 82 upvotes at PH listing time.

What It Is

Shun built nudge to fix his own scheduling problem. AI schedulers are crowded — Reclaim AI, Motion, Cron AI, Reclaim Buddy — and nudge differentiates on ambient UX: "you stop thinking about the calendar." The motto "AI handles the schedule, not just the calendar" compresses that ambient direction.

The most common PH comment is "more minimal than Reclaim, faster than Motion." Notable for a debut from a solo builder.

Hands-On Read

The PH demo video shows five tasks dropped via voice in under a minute, then the week populated in one view. The user-side comparison "drag tasks into the calendar manually vs throw them at nudge" reads as ~30 seconds saved per planning session.

PH comment weaknesses: multilingual voice recognition (Korean etc.) is still beta, Google Calendar only (no Outlook yet), and student verification is mostly US/Japan-scoped.

Three Core Features

• Auto-placement: tasks → slots, factoring deadlines, commitments, focus patterns
• Voice input: text and voice both, 5-10 tasks droppable in under a minute
• Ambient mode: minimum interruptions, the user "doesn't have to think about the schedule"

Pricing / Free Tier

$5 introductory first month, $9/mo standard, $5/mo with student verification. 7-day trial.

Best For

College students, solo freelancers, small teams (≤5). People whose schedule shifts daily and who spend real time on calendar maintenance. Larger orgs are still better served by Motion or Reclaim.

Similar Tools

Reclaim AI is strongest on smart habits and routines at $10-15/mo. Motion integrates projects and tasks at $19-34/mo. nudge wins on minimalism + price for the student/solo segment.

One-Liner

A 20-year-old solo builder's ambient-UX bet, sized exactly for the student/solo freelancer market. The $5-to-$9 conversion rate after May is the real verification.

References

• PH page: https://www.producthunt.com/products/nudge-26
• Reclaim AI: https://reclaim.ai/
• Motion: https://www.usemotion.com/