MoodPulse

Anonymous team moods, turned into clear trends.

MoodPulse is a lightweight, web-based mood tracker for remote teams that lets employees submit a daily mood emoji and short note anonymously. Managers get team-level trend views in bar and line charts so they can spot morale shifts early without exposing individual responses.

Business Goals

  • Reach 50 active users across at least 5 teams within 30 days of launch.
  • Achieve 60% weekly active usage among invited users within 6 weeks.
  • Convert 25% of trial teams into paid teams within 90 days.
  • Keep onboarding completion above 85% with median time-to-first-submission under 60 seconds.
  • Maintain monthly churn below 8% for the first 6 months.

User Goals

  • Submit a mood in under 10 seconds from mobile or desktop.
  • Give an honest update without attaching my name to the response.
  • See how my team has been feeling over time without reading private comments.
  • Help managers notice sustained dips or improvements in morale quickly.
  • Make it easy to join and use without training or a long setup.

Non-Goals

  • No 1:1 performance management or individual employee scoring.
  • No sentiment analysis of note text in the MVP.
  • No chat, comments, reactions, or social feed features.
  • No full HRIS replacement, performance reviews, or absence tracking.

Remote Employee Lena, 29 - Lena works on a distributed product team and wants a fast way to share how she is doing each day without feeling exposed. She values privacy and does not want her note tied to her identity.

Remote Employee Lena, 29

  • As a remote employee, I want to pick an emoji and add a short note, so that I can share my mood quickly before standup.
  • As a remote employee, I want my submission to be anonymous, so that I can be honest without worrying about judgment.
  • As a remote employee, I want the interface to work well on my phone, so that I can submit on the go.

Team Manager Omar, 41 - Omar manages a distributed team and needs an easy way to understand morale trends without asking for daily check-ins in meetings. He wants a lightweight dashboard that shows patterns and outliers at the team level.

Team Manager Omar, 41

  • As a manager, I want to see weekly and monthly mood trends, so that I can spot changes in team morale early.
  • As a manager, I want to filter by team and date range, so that I can compare trends across groups.
  • As a manager, I want to see aggregated moods only, so that I can respect anonymity and trust.

Ops Lead Priya, 36 - Priya owns team operations across several remote squads and needs a low-friction tool that is easy to roll out. She cares about adoption, setup speed, and whether the data is trustworthy enough to inform rituals.

Ops Lead Priya, 36

  • As an ops lead, I want onboarding to take less than a minute, so that I can launch the tool without a rollout project.
  • As an ops lead, I want to invite multiple teams quickly, so that I can expand usage across the organization.
  • As an ops lead, I want exportable team-level data, so that I can share trends in leadership updates.

Anonymous mood submission · High priority

  • Users can submit one mood per day with an emoji and optional short note, while the system preserves anonymity at the team level.
  • Allow selection from a fixed mood scale of 5 emojis from very low to very high.
  • Require no account creation for employees beyond a magic link or team access link.
  • Accept optional note up to 240 characters with profanity allowed but no moderation blocking in MVP.
  • Prevent duplicate submissions from the same user on the same day for the same team.
  • Store submissions without exposing user identity in manager-facing views.

Team dashboards and trends · High priority

  • Managers can view aggregated team mood data in bar and line charts to understand trends over time.
  • Show daily and weekly mood averages with a line chart.
  • Show mood distribution by emoji with a bar chart.
  • Support filters for team, date range, and timezone.
  • Hide notes by default or show only anonymized notes in aggregate view.
  • Display sample size for each time period so managers understand context.

Onboarding and access · High priority

  • New teams can start quickly with minimal setup and clear access links for employees and managers.
  • Create a team in under 60 seconds using team name, manager email, and timezone.
  • Generate shareable employee access links or QR codes for fast joining.
  • Send magic links to managers via email for dashboard access.
  • Support mobile and desktop browsers without app installation.
  • Show a clear confirmation state after team creation and first submission.

Administration and configuration · Medium priority

  • Admins can manage team settings, submission cadence, and retention rules without engineering help.
  • Allow managers to rename teams and change timezone.
  • Allow configuration of daily reminders and submission windows.
  • Provide retention settings for mood history and notes.
  • Allow disabling notes or limiting them to a character count by team.
  • Provide a simple member count and activity overview for each team.

Analytics and export · Low priority

  • Managers can export aggregate data and monitor adoption without needing a separate reporting tool.
  • Export team-level mood summaries as CSV.
  • Include date, average mood, response count, and mood distribution in exports.
  • Track dashboard views and submission completion for adoption analysis.
  • Avoid exporting personally identifiable responses in manager exports.

Fast Team Setup and First Mood

  • Open the app and choose Create Team or Join Team.
  • Manager enters team name, email, and timezone in one short form.
  • App creates the team and generates a share link or QR code.
  • Employee opens the link, selects an emoji, and adds an optional note.
  • First submission is completed in under 60 seconds from landing page to confirmation.
  • Manager lands on the dashboard showing a first empty-state or initial trend once submissions begin.

1. Create or Join

  • The entry flow must separate manager setup from employee submission while staying lightweight.
  • Manager setup requires only essential fields and inline validation.
  • Employee join flow works from a link with no password whenever possible.
  • If access link is invalid or expired, show a friendly recovery path.

2. Submit Mood

  • The daily check-in is the main action and must feel quick, private, and low effort.
  • User selects one emoji and may add a short note.
  • Disallow empty submissions and show character count for notes.
  • If a user already submitted today, show their existing entry and let them update before the window closes if enabled.

3. Aggregate and Anonymize

  • Submissions are stored and summarized at team level so managers never see individual identities.
  • Aggregate mood by day, week, and month.
  • Hide notes unless the team has enough responses to preserve anonymity.
  • Use minimum response thresholds before showing detailed aggregates.

4. View Trends

  • Managers can understand morale changes at a glance through charts and summaries.
  • Line graph shows average mood trend over time.
  • Bar graph shows distribution of emoji submissions.
  • Date range filters default to 7 and 30 days with timezone-aware grouping.

5. Act on Insights

  • Managers can export or share trends for team rituals and leadership updates.
  • Export CSV from the dashboard.
  • Show simple callouts for sustained dips or recovery streaks.
  • Surface response rate so managers know whether data is representative.

Power Features and Edge Cases

  • Scheduled reminders for daily mood submission by team timezone.
  • Anonymous note visibility rules based on minimum response count.
  • CSV export of team-level trends for leadership reporting.
  • Multiple teams under one manager account.
  • Timezone-safe daily windows so late-night submissions count correctly.
  • Graceful handling for low-response days with clear data-quality labels.

Design Principles

  • Mobile-first layout with large tap targets and one-screen submission.
  • Accessible color palette with non-color mood labels for charts and emojis.
  • Charts that are readable on small screens with responsive stacking.
  • Clear privacy messaging near every submission point.
  • Fast loads through server-side rendering and aggressive caching.
  • Empty states that explain value before any data exists.

Lena works on a fully remote product team and usually skips mood check-ins because they feel too public and too slow. With MoodPulse, she opens a link on her phone, taps one emoji, adds a short note, and is done in seconds without attaching her name.

Over the next few weeks, her team manager Omar sees that Wednesday moods dip every other week and response rates are strongest when reminders go out before standup. He adjusts the cadence, raises the issue in a team retro, and the trend starts to improve. The team gets a lightweight signal for morale, and leadership gets a clearer picture of how remote work is affecting people without adding meeting overhead.

User-Centric Metrics

  • Median time from landing to first mood submission under 60 seconds.
  • At least 80% of users complete a submission in under 15 seconds after first use.
  • Weekly submission rate of 60% or higher among invited users.
  • Dashboard task completion rate above 90% for viewing a 7-day trend.
  • User-reported privacy comfort score of 4.5 out of 5 or higher in post-launch survey.
  • Mobile completion rate within 95% of desktop completion rate.

Business Metrics

  • Trial-to-paid team conversion of 25% within 90 days.
  • Monthly team retention above 92% after month 2.
  • At least 5 new teams onboarded per week by month 3.
  • Net promoter score above 40 from managers.
  • Expansion to an average of 1.5 active teams per customer account within 6 months.

Technical Metrics

  • 99.9% monthly uptime.
  • P95 API response time under 300 ms for submission and dashboard reads.
  • Zero exposure of individual employee identity in manager-facing views.
  • Critical security issues remediated within 7 days of discovery.

Tracking Plan

  • team_created
  • invite_link_generated
  • employee_joined
  • mood_submitted
  • mood_submission_updated
  • dashboard_viewed
  • csv_exported

Technical Needs

  • Next.js with TypeScript for the web app and server-side rendering.
  • Supabase Postgres for relational storage, row-level security, and auth.
  • Supabase Auth with magic links for manager access and optional anonymous access tokens for employees.
  • Vercel deployment with preview environments and environment-based configuration.
  • Charting library such as Recharts or Nivo for responsive line and bar charts.
  • Edge-safe API routes or server actions for submission writes and aggregate reads.
  • Background job or scheduled function for reminder emails and daily rollups if needed.

Integration Points

  • Supabase Auth
  • Supabase Postgres
  • Vercel
  • Resend or SendGrid for email magic links and reminders
  • PostHog or Amplitude for product analytics

Data Storage & Privacy

  • Store only minimal team profile data needed for access and analytics.
  • Separate identity-bearing auth data from anonymous submission records.
  • Use row-level security so manager views can only access their own teams.
  • Provide GDPR and CCPA-aligned deletion for team accounts and associated data.
  • Do not surface raw notes when response counts are below the anonymity threshold.

Scalability & Performance

  • Precompute daily aggregates to keep dashboard reads fast.
  • Cache dashboard queries for common ranges like 7, 30, and 90 days.
  • Optimize charts and tables for mobile devices and low-bandwidth connections.
  • Support at least 50 users per team out of the box with room to scale to several hundred per team.

Potential Challenges

  • Anonymity could be compromised in small teams; mitigate with minimum response thresholds and note suppression rules.
  • Duplicate or late submissions could distort trends; mitigate with one-submission-per-day rules and timezone-aware windows.
  • Managers may overinterpret sparse data; mitigate with sample-size labels and confidence-style warnings on low-response days.
  • Mobile chart usability may suffer on small screens; mitigate with responsive layouts and simplified defaults.
  • Email-based access can create friction; mitigate with magic links, QR codes, and clear resend flows.

Team & resourcing - Small team - 2 engineers, 1 designer, part-time PM

Phase 1: MVP Foundation · Weeks 1-2

  • Next.js app scaffolded with TypeScript and Supabase integration
  • Team creation and join flow
  • Anonymous daily mood submission
  • Basic manager dashboard with simple aggregate counts
  • Mobile responsive UI and initial deployment to Vercel

Phase 2: Trend Dashboard · Weeks 3-4

  • Line chart and bar chart trend views
  • Date range and timezone filtering
  • Anonymity threshold logic for notes and low-response periods
  • Magic link manager auth
  • Analytics event tracking for core funnel

Phase 3: Team Operations · Weeks 5-6

  • Reminder scheduling by timezone
  • CSV export of aggregate data
  • Team settings and retention controls
  • Improved empty states, validation, and error handling
  • Accessibility and performance polish

Phase 4: Launch Hardening · Weeks 7-8

  • Security review and row-level security verification
  • Load testing for 50-user teams and basic scaling checks
  • Monitoring, alerts, and uptime dashboard
  • Launch-ready onboarding copy and manager walkthrough
  • Bug fixes from pilot customers

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Build a lightweight web app called MoodPulse for remote teams.

Use Next.js with TypeScript, Supabase Postgres, and deploy-ready Vercel-friendly architecture. The app must work well on mobile and desktop browsers.

Core product:
Employees submit one anonymous daily mood using an emoji scale plus an optional short note. Managers see team-level mood trends only, with bar charts and line charts, filters for date range and timezone, and no individual identity exposure.

Primary screens and flows:
1. Landing page with clear value proposition and two actions: Create Team and Join Team.
2. Manager onboarding form that completes in under 1 minute: team name, manager email, timezone.
3. Join flow for employees via share link or QR code, no password if possible.
4. Daily mood submission screen: choose one of 5 emojis, add optional note up to 240 characters, submit.
5. Manager dashboard: 7-day and 30-day views, average mood line chart, mood distribution bar chart, response counts, and export CSV.
6. Team settings: timezone, reminder time, retention rules, note visibility threshold.

Data model in Supabase:
Teams(id, name, timezone, created_at, reminder_time, note_visibility_threshold, retention_days)
Users(id, auth_user_id, role, team_id, created_at) for managers only or access metadata
MoodEntries(id, team_id, submitted_at, mood_score, mood_emoji, note, submission_date, anonymous_session_id)
DailyAggregates(id, team_id, date, avg_mood, response_count, mood_distribution_json)
Audit or analytics events for onboarding, join, submission, and dashboard views.
Use row-level security so managers can only access their own team data and employee submissions remain anonymous in UI.

Implementation requirements:
Make the UI clean, modern, and minimal with responsive charts and accessible colors. Include validation, error states, loading states, and empty states. Enforce one submission per anonymous user per team per day, timezone-aware. Use server actions or API routes for writes, and precomputed aggregates or efficient SQL for reads. Add analytics event tracking and CSV export. Include email magic links or access links for manager authentication and team invites.

Build the full product scaffold with sensible components, routing, database schema, sample seed data, and production-ready defaults for a small team of 50 users.

Business Idea

I want to build with Bolt: a lightweight, web-based mood tracker for remote teams that lets users submit daily moods (emoji + short note) anonymously and shows team-level mood trends (bar and line graphs). Use Next.js (TypeScript), Supabase Postgres, and deploy to Vercel. App should work on mobile and desktop browsers, with dashboard views for managers. Keep onboarding under 1 minute and support 50 users out of the box.

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