An intelligent assistant that unifies tasks, email, and scheduling, adapting them to your energy and priorities.
Joined November 2022
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a founder has three jobs. everything else is serious amounts of noise.
1. you have to tell the story. roughly in three registers. first investors need inevitability. customers need to *feel* what you do/stand for. & your team needs a mission worth their best years.
2. you must secure the capital before you need it. running out of money is running out of options. you have to be relentless about it.
3. you must obsess over the product. product is the story made accessible for everyone. every shipped detail is a sentence back into the narrative in point number one.
this is the entire job.
everything else you either delegate or kill. early on with a really small team, delegation is a huge tax so you have to learn to kill more than you delegate.
Your best hours are being wasted.
Energy peaks happen once, maybe twice a day. Usually 9-11am and 3-5pm for most people.
It’s a mistake to waste those hours on meetings and admin work that your brain can handle at any other time of the day.
That’s why rivva helps protect them
Most people plan their day around time. They should plan around energy.
Here's how:
Track your energy levels for 3 days
Find your peaks (usually 9-11am, 3-5pm)
Schedule hard work during peaks
Batch easy tasks during dips
Or let rivva do this automatically in seconds😉.
7 productivity tips for you:
- Schedule around energy
- Batch similar tasks
- Capture everything
- Protect deep work
- Track sleep debt
- Build flexibility
- Kill decision fatigue
When you’re an product leader, you coordinate everything.
Sprint planning. Daily standups. Stakeholder alignment. Cross-functional meetings.
By 3pm, you're out of mental bandwidth for the strategic decisions that actually matter.
If this is you, call rivva 👀
Every time you finish a task or a meeting, you have to decide what to work on next. That decision fatigue slowly steals time and drains your mental energy.
That’s why you need tools that help you decide what to do next and ease your fatigue.
That way, you just focus on the work
opens email to send one quick message
sees 12 unread
decides to "quickly" check them
three need responses
one requires finding old document
two lead to slack threads
45 minutes later: still haven't sent original message
email can be a productivity trap sometimes 😅
classic sunday night
6pm: feeling good about the weekend
7pm: remember you have work tomorrow
8pm: open laptop to "just check email"
9pm: 6 unread emails
10pm: existential dread about monday
11pm: can't sleep
6am monday: already behind
every. single. week.
one bad night of sleep: manageable
two bad nights: noticeable
three days of bad sleep: everything feels impossible
sometimes, you just need sleep to fix your productivity
peak capacity shows up in windows, not marathons
athletes don't train 8 hours straight
musicians don't practice without breaks
writers don't draft for 6 consecutive hours
knowledge work is no different
schedule recovery between high-focus blocks
30-min meetings doesn't actually cost 30 minutes
There's 10 minutes of context switch before
Then the 30 min meeting itself
And then 15 min to get back into flow
That's 55 minutes of capacity gone, not 30.
3 meetings = 2.75 hours burned
Plan your day with this in mind
the 3-priority filter:
start each week asking what 3 outcomes actually matter. then plan around those
when someone asks for time: does this serve my 3?
when planning the day: am I moving one of my 3?
when saying yes: does this replace one of my 3?
If you struggle to work during certain times, you might be working outside your peak hours.
Your productive peak is partly determined by your sleep chronotype.
We built a free quiz to help you find yours
tally.so/r/Y5Wg5z
Rhythm-based scheduling means planning your work around your body’s natural performance cycles instead of just your calendar availability.
The difference matters. A lot.
blog.rivva.app/p/how-rhythm-…
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Your calendar is lying to you.
Most productivity tools treat your day like a puzzle: just fit the tasks into the empty slots.
But here's the truth they ignore:
Your 3 PM self is not the same as your 9 AM self.
Your focus, energy, and cognitive capacity aren't constants.
They're curves. And scheduling a deep-work session right after four back-to-back calls is a recipe for burnout, not breakthroughs.
What if your schedule adapted to your energy, not the other way around?
@rivva_app is the first AI planner that organizes your day around how well you can actually think.
It doesn't just see tasks and meetings. It builds a complete picture using:
• Your sleep & recovery data (via Apple Health)
• Your historical energy & focus patterns
• The cognitive load of each task
• Your real-time calendar changes
The result?
Your most demanding work lands when you're sharpest. Lighter tasks fill the natural dips. Your plan bends instead of breaking when the day shifts.
This is for founders, operators, creatives, and neurodivergent professionals who are tired of tools built for robots, not humans.
Stop fighting your biology. Start scheduling for your brain.
👉 Get your day, planned around your energy: rivva.app/
They’re live on Product Hunt today 🚀
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