About Chillcore

The premise

We built Chillcore for one specific person: the version of ourselves who kept postponing 3 things we actually cared about, tried every gentle productivity app, and shut them all down within a week.

You know the pattern. You install Todoist. You feel productive for 4 days organizing your setup. Then the reminders become notification-shaped noise. You mute them. Then you delete the app. Then, three weeks later, the 3 tasks are still undone.

The problem was never "I need a better to-do list." The problem was: nothing external was pushing us hard enough to overcome the internal avoidance. So we built the thing that pushes.

Chillcore is what happens when a productivity app is willing to be uncomfortable.

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What we believe

• Accountability > motivation. Motivation is a feeling. Feelings run out. External structure doesn't.
• External beats internal. Willpower has a fatigue curve. Environment and systems don't. Outsource your discipline where you can.
• Guilt is a tool, not the endpoint. Every roast in Chillcore ends in a concrete next step. Guilt without direction just makes people close the app.
• Insult behavior, never identity. You are not the pattern you're stuck in. Chillcore attacks the pattern.
• Peace is the ultimate reward. Not points. Not badges. Not gamification. The signature reward in Chillcore is Earned Silence — the app going completely dark for up to 3 days. Nothing else in the productivity space offers its own absence as the prize.
• Consent is non-negotiable. Buddies don't hear anything until they Accept. Demon isn't available without 3 explicit gates. The safeword works on every surface. If we can't do it with consent, we don't do it.

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What we won't do

• No ads. Ever.
• No data sales. We don't sell your task titles, your excuses, your buddy pairings, or anything else. See Privacy Policy.
• No dark patterns. No auto-charging free trials. No "cancel anytime" that requires 6 clicks and a phone call.
• No shame after paying. Once you're a customer, the app doesn't try to upsell you into more premium tiers with FOMO. What you pay for is what you get.
• No AI chatbot conversations. Chillcore is not a therapist, a friend, or a chat companion. The moment it becomes a chatbot, it stops being the strict friend and becomes another tool to procrastinate inside.
• No positive-only mode. We considered it. It got explicitly rejected. Chillcore is hardcore or it isn't Chillcore.
• No inflating results. If Chillcore doesn't work for you, please cancel and tell us why. We'd rather hear "this wasn't right for me" than have you pay us out of guilt.

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Team

A small team based in Latvia. Names + photos coming when we ship v1 publicly.

We are: - Not a Silicon Valley startup. - Not funded by VCs (bootstrapped, will remain so unless funding changes what we can build honestly). - Not building this as a lifestyle brand or wellness product. - Not experts in psychology, therapy, or mental health — we point users to real professionals, we're not one of them.

We are: - People who kept postponing things we cared about, built the app that stopped it working on us, and figured other people probably had the same problem. - Committed to shipping the web app first as the real product. App Store version comes last, tamed, as a discovery funnel. - Reachable at support@chillcore.app, safety@chillcore.app, privacy@chillcore.app.

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The name

Chillcore is deliberately ironic. The name is chill; the app is not.

The joke is the joke: "The app that won't let you chill." Every surface — the landing page, the notifications, the persona voices — weaponizes the contrast.

We know the name has a relaxation halo. We're aware there's a Turkish immersion-cooling company also using "Chillcore" (unrelated, different product category). We know the App Store search for "chill" surfaces mindfulness apps. That's the point — the contrast between what you expect and what you get is the first-run moment we're designing for.

If the name miscategorizes us as a meditation app in your mind, our landing copy has 2 seconds to fix that. If it doesn't fix it — try the demo or read any Cluster A blog post and see what our voice actually sounds like.

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Where we're going

Right now: shipping the web PWA (chillcore.app). This is the real product. Coach + Drill Sergeant + Demon, buddy system, scaled quit-gate, Earned Silence.

Next 6 months: - Android APK (full version, sideloaded from chillcore.app) - Play Store tamed build (Coach + softened Drill Sergeant) - Persona Store IAP (Disappointed Grandma, Passive-Aggressive HR Manager, 90s Action Sergeant, Your Future Self)

Next 12 months: - App Store tamed version (Coach + softened Drill Sergeant, no Demon, no profanity) - Voice notifications ("Your conscience" caller ID) - Money-stake commitment devices (escrow partner; we never custody funds) - Student discount tier (planned Q1 2027)

We do not have plans for: - Team accountability features (this is designed for individual use) - Corporate wellness contracts - White-label versions - Enterprise sales - Lifetime pricing (recurring cost, recurring price)

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Read the manifesto

If you want the long-form version of why we built this, why we chose "hardcore" as the positioning, and why we think the productivity industry has been quietly lying to you for 15 years:

→ Read the Chillcore Manifesto

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Related

• How Chillcore works
• Safety policy
• Pricing — bootstrapped, real free tier, honest Pro price
• FAQ
• Community Guidelines — the "mean, not evil" rules

Frequently asked questions

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