How to start a Recovery Program for Long-Term Burnout Paralysis business: plan and growth
Two years after losing a job, with a solid cushion, someone has effectively done nothing. It isn't laziness but prolonged burnout paralysis that productivity tips don't touch.
An owner can start “Recovery Program for Long-Term Burnout Paralysis” from a complaint people already posted. The offer, in one line: A structured coaching program for people stuck for months or years after burnout, separate from procrastination coaching. It is for burned-out professionals. Charge a done-for-you service, and test a price at $200 a month or more. Begin in more than one country. Buyers already talk about this in r/productivity. One thread gathered 138 votes and 48 replies across Sep 14, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026. Use that room to meet the first twenty buyers. Do not export it, and do not republish the posts. The idea, the evidence, and the market estimate on this page are free to read. Two paid prompts finish the job: one drafts the offer, the price, and a ninety-day calendar; the other drafts a month of conversations and proof. One credit unlocks both. A software specification is not on this site. When the company is the product itself, a single link further down opens the founder library.
I've done nothing for almost 2 yearsr/productivity · Sep 14, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026 · 138 votes · 48 replies · Open the thread
Who would pay
Burned-out professionals. Start in more than one country, and charge a done-for-you service, testing a price at $200 a month or more.
The thread above is the public complaint this business can learn from. Verbatim quotes are not invented. Further sources, when a later report adds them, stay with the evidence.
What buyers use today
- Therapy
- Life coaches
The offer, in our words
A structured coaching program (not an app) built specifically for getting out of long-term functional paralysis, distinct from ordinary procrastination coaching.
Score 3.45, Warm. Pain, willingness to pay, demand, and the gap in current options drive it. We are not scoring how fast you can code.
Market size
An estimate, built from the bottom up: real customer counts × a realistic price. It shows the size of the prize, not a forecast.
TAM Total addressable
$5B a year
3.3M people · 2% of employed people in the US
SAM Serviceable
$495M a year
330,000 people · English-speaking, online
SOM Obtainable in 3 years
$2.4M a year
1,600 people · 0.5% of the reachable segment in three years
What that means
1,600 people a year × ~$1,500 = $2.4M a year in revenue
Low confidence · estimated Oct 2026
How we estimated this
- Base: 163,000,000 employed people in the US.
- Has the problem: 2% (assume 2% have long-term burnout and would pay for a program).
- Revenue per people: $1,500 per year (~$1,500 per program).
- Reachable: 10% (English-speaking, online).
- Three-year capture: 0.5% of the reachable segment.
TAM is customers with the problem × revenue per customer. SAM is the part a new business can reach. SOM is a cautious three-year share of SAM. The bars use a log scale. A share marked “assume” is our judgment, not a measurement.
The business-plan prompt
The offer, the price, and a ninety-day calendar, written for an agent. 1 credit unlocks both prompts for this idea: this plan and the growth playbook below.
# Business plan prompt: Recovery Program for Long-Term Burnout Paralysis You are writing a practical plan for one owner who will sell this as a business. Do not write a software specification, a venture memo, or a feature list. Use short sentences. Where a number is unknown, give a range and say what to measure. ## The business Working name: Recovery Program for Long-Term Burnout Paralysis What the customer gets: A structured coaching program for people stuck for months or years after burnout, separate from procrastination coaching. Who pays: Burned-out professionals
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The growth playbook
Thirty weekdays of conversations and proof. Not an ad plan. Included with the plan above, on the same credit.
# Growth prompt: Recovery Program for Long-Term Burnout Paralysis You are planning thirty days of distribution for a business that already has an offer. The offer: A structured coaching program for people stuck for months or years after burnout, separate from procrastination coaching. The buyer: burned-out professionals. Price band: at $200 a month or more. Do not propose ads, a viral loop, or a rebrand. Propose conversations, proof, and a repeatable weekly rhythm. ## Starting point A public thread in r/productivity drew 138 votes and 48 replies. The pain, in the owner's words: Two years after losing a job, with a solid cushion, someone has effectively done nothing. It isn't laziness but prolonged burnout paralysis that productivity tips don't touch.
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Questions
How much money do I need to start?
Enough to talk to buyers and deliver the offer once. A service version can start with a written process and a way to take payment. A software version is a larger bet and is not required to test the price. The band to test is $200 and up.
How should I price it?
Test a price at $200 a month or more, charged as a done-for-you service. Raise it after three paid pilots, not before the first conversation.
Where do the first customers come from?
r/productivity is the clue. A related thread gathered 138 votes and 48 replies. Show up there, follow the room's rules, and ask for conversations. Do not scrape it.
Do I need to write code?
No. The prompts on this page draft a plan and a month of growth. Code is a later choice. The founder site linked once below is where the build document lives, if you want it.
The coded version, and the option to hire it out, are on the founder site. Get the build PRD
A two-week build starts at $10,000 on that site, after a $1,000 scoping fee.
Plans and growth playbooks
One credit opens both prompts for this business.
The idea, the evidence, and the market estimate stay free. The business plan and the thirty-day growth playbook for Recovery Program for Long-Term Burnout Paralysis cost one credit, together, and stay unlocked.
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