The Operator Standard

This app has been instrumental to helping me break out of the cycle I was in, lose weight and get my mental health back in order and build my mental toughness. In this app, you with the OS built-in technology called Arcane. You leg Arcane know your goals and vision. Arcane takes your big goals, helps you set realistic milestones to hit, and then the daily tasks that you need to accomplish to get there. It requires daily action and commitment. Arcane and the OS community holds you responsible! The people in this group lock arms with you and support you, no matter what stage of your goal you’re working on. There is nothing else in the world like it!! My on my regret is I didn’t have this when I was younger. My life would have been on such a different trajectory

If you get past the personality that is behind it and evaluate the application for what it is, at its cost point, it’s ok. It’s basically 50 dollars a month for some chat rooms, task management (I use the word “management” lightly) and an AI (based off of googles models) However when compared against what else is on the market, I don’t see the 50 dollars value. Maybe if this was brought to market 4 years ago? But today - not so much. You can get better AI features, better task management, and a better UI elsewhere. Some caveats: - the podcast is good - I like the branding The thing that made me leave: - Over promising on the “tech” (please stop saying you came up with new “tech” when it runs on googles infrastructure) - the features or “amazing things that are coming” are always “almost done”. However at 50 dollars a month, you should be getting a failure advanced application right out of the box. If you want beta testers, then I don’t think 50 dollars is a fair cost. I just got tired of the “we have the best thing in the world, but just wait a bit longer”. Unless you’re building from scratch which by all accounts isn’t the case, development with that amount of funding (including a beta testers group) should be much over streamlined. However, over the last 6-7 months, the only major changes to the end user was a slightly adjusted chat bot, social chat rooms, and of course a good podcast. This could always change. But currently, that’s the product.

Ultimately was not for me though I really wanted it to be. Six weeks in and instead of it making me epowered by my goals I felt completely sapped. It took all my drive out. Greyed my long horizon view. Discovered I’m in the 5%-10% I’m highly autonomous and overly intrinsically driven I’m a “architect agency type”. I did not know that about myself, and the structure of this app goes against my natural state. Deep bursts, ebbs and flows, hyper focus, the need for fluidity, almost anti structure. I know to most it Sounds like a complete cop out I’m sure, but after discussing with arcane in depth, it backed up what I had already drawn the conclusion to on my own. The patterns I had noticed about myself never had a name and I struggled to fit into the confines of the app structure. I have great respect for what Andy is trying to do and build. And for that I give this four stars. Ultimately this app did shed light on a lot of the patterns I’ve had throughout my entire life and has helped put into words what drives me, how I think, and what I need to be great.