Llama Life with Marie Ng

Marie joins Benedicte and Benedikt to discuss building Llama Life, a productivity app centered around focus and fun, in public.
Marie joins Benedicte and Benedikt to discuss building Llama Life, a productivity app centered around focus and fun, in public.
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!

Creators and Guests

Benedicte Raae 👑
Host
Benedicte Raae 👑
Queen Raae - Let's get the most out of @GatsbyJS | Creator of POW! — the privacy-first menstrual cycle journal (https://t.co/t2m6aOaCgM) | Co-host of the @SlowSteadyPod
Benedikt Deicke
Host
Benedikt Deicke
Software Engineer & Co-founder of @userlist. Co-host at @SlowSteadyPod. Running @femtoconf. Creator of @stagecms. Loves music, food, and cooking.
Dan Yosua
Editor
Dan Yosua
Creative Freelancer:🎥 https://t.co/KkYUZ9QXlO📸 https://t.co/FwOYP3Wysk
Marie Ng 🦙
Guest
Marie Ng 🦙
Tweets about building my startup @llamalifeco 🦙 • Co-host @theweeklybuild 🎙 • Maker of https://t.co/LCzmcLzESv, https://t.co/hWmMsjQF4N • ADHD • 99% chance tweets have typos 😝