Enable everyone to get things done
Help members of your family & team to get things done daily. Reward them with a gift card, temporary wireless access, or playtime on their favorite game console.
How it started… 🦄🐲🐉
On Christmas Eve 2020 🎅, I finally took the plunge. I left my job at Atlassian to work on Questmate 🚀, an app enabling everyone to get things done.
The idea behind Questmate was to allow users to set up so-called “Quests”. Each Quest would entail a list of steps to be done as part of a routine or process. Then, these Quests would automatically start and be assigned to whoever required.
Furthermore, Questmate would not only allow for adding proper context and guidance to each step, but even allow users to do things right from the Quest. Things like controlling a smart device 💡🚗🔋🚪, as well as triggering actions in other products. For example, checking in participants of your gym class 🧘♀️ in a 3rd party app like Eventbrite or Airtable.
At the end of each Quest Run, entered data would flow wherever necessary (e.g., Slack 💬, Google Sheets 🔢). Smart devices would be turned off 🔌 or locked 🔒. Users would optionally be rewarded 🎁🎮💰🛜 for completing the Quest. 💥💪🎉
Since its launch, thousands of individuals and teams signed up to use Questmate and helped to push the boundaries of Questmate. They use it for a wide variety of use cases involving either their team or family members, their customers, or simply themselves. We even added a way for them and us to quickly extend Questmate’s possibilities using their own little code snippets.
To summarize, Quests are like smart forms that allow everyone to take action and get rewarded.
Doubling down on the “everyone” part 💪
When I started working on Questmate, my primary goal was to make it not only functional but also bold 🌈. Not just from a brand and general design perspective, but even more so from a UX/accessibility standpoint. This meant using large text & UI elements and a high contrast ratio for the colors we would use. And while we often hear from users how much they love Questmate’s design, we’re very much aware that there’s still heaps of work in front of us to truly make Questmate accessible to everyone.
This involves everything from finding better ways to communicate Questmate’s functionality to making the app easy to understand and navigate. Add things like full keyboard accessibility and further tuning our designs & color contrast ratios, among many other things, and you start to get the picture.
From today on, and indefinitely, we’ll dedicate 80% of our time to improving Questmate’s general accessibility and making it easier to use.
Which all leads us to the main event of this very blog post…
Help others to help us help you 😇
While talking to our most active users, we noticed that over half of them use Quests for personal use cases. Either for themselves, their kids, or other members of their family. And while many of these personal Quests would sound basic to some, they make a hell of a difference to them and their lives. 🤗
So if you or somebody in your family struggles to get through their daily morning routine, workout, or evening cleanup, this Quest is for you.
Using this special “quick setup” link, you can even clone and use it for free 🤫😇 The only thing we ask for is your feedback to make Questmate better for everyone!
Wanna learn how to add custom incentives to your Quest, like temporary wifi access 🛜, turning on the TV 📺 or adding some playtime to your kid’s Switch using Nintendo’s Parental Controls API? Just join and reach out via our new dedicated Discord, or just email me!
See you there ☺️✌️