Spoonwise
Spoonwise is a calm, shame-free money app for neurodivergent folks. It gives you one honest number a day for what you can safely spend, with three spoons views so you choose how much detail you see.
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Life is a group project and Holly Marie Gibbs did her part.
I’m a NYC-based product designer and coach. I build simple, friendly tools and write honest notes about the things nobody hands you a manual for, covering everything from energy budgets, job hunts, grant searching, career changes, to running a small business without losing your patience (or money).
Want to swap notes, request a tool, or just say hi? Email me: hi@hollymariegibbs.com
My share of the work
These are tools I built to help make life a little easier to navigate.
Good Prospect
Good Prospect is a job-search triage tool. Paste in your leads, run them through an ethical and practical filter, and only spend energy on the roles that deserve it.
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Grant Scout
Grant Scout hunts every week for grants and fellowships your small business is actually eligible for, screens them for fit, and drafts the application.
Career Change Compass
The Compass is a course for figuring out which direction your next chapter points. It walks you through honest questions about what you want, what you're good at, and what you won't compromise on, so you leave with a direction you trust.
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Notes, guides, and essays covering a wide range of topics. Most are free!
A Neurodivergent's Guide to Neurotypical Expectations
A playbook series that distills exactly what the unspoken expectation is — and how to go about getting the correct information — one volume at a time. One price will unlock every volume, including new ones.
How to write a user manual for the folks you work with
A user manual is a short doc that teaches your colleagues the best way to work with you. This note walks through why it works, what to put in it, and how to share it with your colleagues in a way that feels authentic.
Job searching, the systems way
This is my whole process: boolean searches, lead triage with an ethical filter, a Claude + Notion pipeline, and a cadence that doesn't burn you out.
Skincare and sunscreen guide
This is everything I know about sunscreen, layering, and building a routine that sticks, plus the products I actually reach for.
Learning and growth while unemployed
Unemployment is a season, not a verdict. This note is about keeping your skills — and your sense of self — moving while the job isn't there yet.
Your design skills translate
Fourteen years of UX and product design pay off well outside the job titles. This one is for designers eyeing a change, and for everyone else who wants the toolkit.
A small business owner's guide to using AI
This guide sorts what's actually useful from what's grift, so you can get real help from AI without handing your business over to it.
Recess
Three cozy games I made while learning more about game design. There are no timers, no scores, no feeds, no ads.
Cohort Sort
Crack the hidden ranking in four guesses.
A daily deduction game: five cards, one true order, and each guess tells you who belongs higher or lower. Fun to play, and a good calibration check for how things stack up relative to one another.
Bloom
Grow a seed, bring a valley back to life.
You're a Pip, a seed-creature waking a parched world back up. Every few levels the puzzle changes, so you might be aligning petals into flowers, untangling brambles, or fitting fallen stones back into place. There's no timer and no way to lose.
Afloat
Drift the colors and shapes into calm.
Every board is a smooth gradient of color and soft shape that's been shuffled. Swap tiles two at a time until it all settles and flows again, across nine real bodies of water, from a freshwater spring to a bioluminescent bay. Best played slowly.