Focus Room

Stop Building Alone. Start Shipping Together.

A free virtual coworking space for indie hackers and solo founders who need to stop scrolling Twitter and start shipping features.

Start focusing — it's free

Being an indie hacker is a paradox. You left the 9-to-5 for freedom, and now you have so much freedom that you can't get anything done. There's no standup forcing you to report progress. No manager noticing that you've been "researching" for three hours. No coworkers making you feel awkward about watching YouTube tutorials you've already seen. Just you, your laptop, and an infinite supply of productive-feeling procrastination.

BuckleTime is the coworking space you gave up when you went solo. Other indie hackers are in the room, heads down, shipping their own products. You see their active focus sessions and think "right, I should be building too, not tweaking my landing page for the 47th time." You start a session, you build, and an hour later you've made actual progress instead of rearranging your Notion workspace.

The best part: there's no networking, no pitch practice, no "let's hop on a quick call." This isn't a community — it's a focus room. You show up, you work alongside other builders, and you leave with more code shipped than you would have alone. The points and streaks are just bonus motivation for the days when your willpower is running on fumes.

How It Works

Join the Room

Open BuckleTime and drop into a focus room. No application process, no cohort to join, no introductions. Other indie hackers and solo founders are already in active sessions. The energy is 'library during finals week' — everyone is working.

Start Building

Start a focus session and work on whatever moves your product forward. Code a feature, write a blog post, design a landing page, handle customer support. The timer runs while you work. No video, no check-ins, no accountability partner asking what you accomplished.

Track Your Builder Hours

Complete sessions and see your focused work hours stack up. Daily streaks keep you consistent. Achievements celebrate milestones. Over weeks, you'll have hard data showing exactly how much deep work you're putting into your product — and whether it's enough.

Benefits

The Office You Lost When You Went Solo

You probably don't miss the meetings, but you might miss the ambient productivity of an office. Other people working around you creates a subtle pressure to work too. BuckleTime recreates that for indie hackers — the productive part of an office without the soul-crushing parts.

Anti-Procrastination for Solo Founders

When you're the only person who knows your schedule, it's dangerously easy to spend the morning on Twitter, the afternoon on 'strategy,' and the evening feeling guilty. BuckleTime creates a forcing function. You start a session, the timer runs, other people are building. Scrolling Twitter mid-session just hits different.

Actual Deep Work Metrics

Most indie hackers track revenue, users, and MRR but have no idea how many hours of real deep work they put in each week. BuckleTime tells you. If you're doing 12 hours of focused building per week, that's good data. If it's 4 hours, that explains why your product isn't growing.

No Community Overhead

Indie hacker communities are great until they become another thing to manage. Slack channels, Discord servers, weekly calls — they eat into the time you should spend building. BuckleTime is the opposite: pure focus, zero community management. Show up, work, leave. That's it.

What People Say

"I track my MRR religiously but I never tracked my focus hours until BuckleTime. Turns out I was doing about 8 hours of real deep work per week and spending 25 hours on 'productive procrastination.' That was a wake-up call."

Derek Paulsen

Solo SaaS founder

"The irony of being an indie hacker is that you need discipline but chose this path partly because you hate external structure. BuckleTime threads the needle — it gives you just enough structure to ship without feeling like a boss breathing down your neck."

Mei-Lin Torres

Bootstrapped founder

"I shipped my MVP in 6 weeks using BuckleTime focus sessions every morning. Before that, I'd been 'working on it' for 5 months. The difference was having other people around me building — it made me stop overthinking and start shipping."

Kofi Asante

Indie hacker and maker

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this an indie hacker community?

No. BuckleTime is a focus tool, not a community. There's no networking, no intros, no 'share your project' threads. It's a virtual room where you work alongside other builders in silence. If you want community, there are great options out there. If you want to actually ship, come here.

Can I use this for non-coding work?

Yes. Indie hacking isn't just coding. Writing content, doing customer research, designing UI, handling support emails, recording videos — all of that counts. Start a focus session for whatever work you need to do. The room doesn't judge what you're building or how.

How is this different from a Focusmate or coworking call?

Focusmate matches you with a stranger for a scheduled video call. That works for some people. BuckleTime has no video, no scheduling, and no matching. You show up whenever you want, see other people already working, and start a session. It's lower friction and always available — no booking slots 24 hours in advance.

I work weird hours. Will anyone be in the room at 3 AM?

Almost certainly. BuckleTime has users across every timezone. When it's 3 AM for you, it's prime working hours somewhere else. The rooms rarely empty out completely, and late-night sessions are surprisingly popular with indie hackers who do their best work after midnight.

Is this actually free? What's the business model?

BuckleTime is free. The core experience — rooms, focus sessions, streaks, achievements, and tracking — costs nothing. We're building this because we needed it ourselves. The coworking experience is and will remain free.

Ship More. Scroll Less. Start Now.

Join the focus room and build alongside other indie hackers. Free, no signup friction, no video calls. Open BuckleTime, start a focus session, and finally make progress on that feature you've been putting off.