u/Fuzzy_Act5528

I used Notion every day for about 3 years. And here's my problem with it: it's a document. That's it. You can build anything in it, sure, but at the end of the day you're staring at a page with no personality. I got bored of writing docs to run my life.

What I actually wanted was to feel motivated to do more. Check off habits. Hit goals. And not do it alone, staring at a blank page. I wanted something that looked good and felt alive, and honestly, I wanted people to compete with. A document can't give you that.

So I started building my own thing. Step by step, mostly after my 9-to-5, at night while my family was sleeping.

The app is Loggd. Habits, tasks, goals, focus timer, notes, all in one place. The whole point is that it's animated and has some life to it, instead of a blank doc judging you.

Here's the crazy part. One month ago I quit my job to work on this full time.

I know how that sounds. The app is not making enough money yet to justify it. But hey, I'm living the indie hacker dream for a few months at least. And the reason I made the jump is the feedback. Hundreds of messages from users telling me this thing actually helps them. That's what convinced me it has real potential.

Some honest numbers, 7 months in:

* 5,600+ users

* around €3,000 total revenue

* mix of monthly subscribers and lifetime deals

Not enough to live on. Not yet. But enough to make me believe.

Right now it's on web, PWA, and iOS. Android is under review. The plan from the start was to have it everywhere, fully in sync, so you move between phone and laptop without thinking about it.

I attached a short video of a few pages so you can see what I mean about the feel.

Happy to answer anything.

When you say "habit tracker" here, everyone lands on the same stuff. Saturated niche, vibe coded, slop, "not another one." The list is long. The main idea is always the same. Don't build another one.

Well, I built one anyway. It was something I wanted for myself. The idea was to replace Notion with something that looks better and has habits built in. It ended up mostly a habit tracker with a bunch of extra features.

From December to now (July) I made €3,158 total. It's a mix of MRR and lifetime deals, so not all of it is recurring.

Some context. Started building in November, launched the web app in December, got my first paying users that same month. Since then I've done marketing every single day. Almost all of it is Threads, posting there basically daily. I've had maybe a handful of days off in 7 months. This was never a quick money thing. It's slow and kind of boring work.

The app does way more than habits, even if that's how I sell it. It's Loggd. Habits, tasks, goals, a Pomodoro timer you can link to a task, a leaderboard, animated characters, a small community. More of an all-in-one, really. I just market the habit side because that's what gets people in the door. Most only find out what it does after they sign up.

It was dead slow at the start. Picked up recently once the iOS app went into prelaunch, and I just kept showing up. The thing that actually worked was building in public. Posting every number, every user, every euro. People trust that way more than a clean pitch.

So can you make money in a saturated niche? Yeah. Just not fast and not from some trick. Some friends of mine build habit trackers, too. One just hit €1,000 total. It's not a dying niche. It's just work. Show up, talk to people, repeat.

What's next is connecting my app to Claude and ChatGPT through MCP. I live inside Claude all day anyway, so I want to just ask it what's on my list today, throw in a few tasks, check off habits, sort my goals, and have the app update itself in the background. Building that now.

That's it. €3,158 in 7 months, one of the most crowded niches out there, a lot of showing up. Happy to answer anything.

My revenue since December: €14, €161, €145, €85, €522, €1,090. And this month €727 so far (still day 13).

So for the first few months, I was basically flat around €100-150. Nothing really moved it.

Then I did two things: launched the iOS app, and added lifetime deals.

Two months later, I've sold 18 lifetime deals. That alone is about half of all the revenue this app has ever made. iOS also converts way better than web ever did for me.

Honest part though. Lifetime money is one-time money. My real MRR is €255. So it's not a clean €1,000 every month. That spike was mostly the lifetime push.

But it proved something. People will pay. They just weren't paying on the web, and weren't paying monthly.

Context: solo dev, 4,830 users, 68 on the monthly plan. The app is Loggd, an all-in-one personal growth thing. Built over 7 months.

If you're stuck at a low number, maybe it's not the product. Maybe it's the platform or the offer.

Happy to answer anything.

Every week here: "$10k MRR in 30 days." "Crossed $5k in my first month." "0 to $20k in 6 months."

Cool. This is not that.

About me: dad, married, 9-5 remote dev job, building before work and after my daughter goes to sleep. Started in December.

The actual curve:

• Dec: €14
• Jan: €161
• Feb: €145
• Mar: €85
• Apr: €522
• May: €945

Total: €1,872.

For 4 months I was flat under €200. I genuinely thought I was wasting my time.

Then April happened. Then May almost doubled it.

What changed:

• Shipped the iOS app
• Added lifetime deals

Lifetime deals alone are doing about half of last month. The rest is subscriptions finally stacking up.

So no, it's not the $10k-in-30-days story. It's €14 in month one and €945 in month six. Maybe I just suck, maybe the guru posts are lying, probably a bit of both.

But I'm genuinely happy. After 4 months of a flat chart, the line is finally going up.

If you're in month 2 or 3 staring at a chart that looks dead...don't quit yet. Mine looked exactly like that.

Also for people that..."I don't recognise this chart" -> yeah, it's custom on my admin panel, where I took the date from both my payment providers, RevenueCut and Lemon Squeeze, and merged them here. I have at a glance all the info that I usually check..

The app, as a reference: Loggd. Think GitHub activity graph, except the green squares are your habits, focus sessions, goals, tasks, and more.

Happy to answer anything.

Or more honestly. I built a habit tracker. Then I kept adding features I thought people wanted. Now I've checked the data and...oh yeah..so..

It started as a habit tracker. Then I thought, why not also tasks. Then a focus timer would be nice. Then if I'm tracking habits, I should track goals too. Then daily reflections. Then a vision board. Then notes. Then public profiles so people can share their progress.

By the end, I had 8 features in one app. I told myself this was the value prop. All in one. Everything you need for personal growth in one place.

The data tells a different story.

3,921 users. Here's what they actually use:

• Habits: 68%
• Tasks: 24%
• Public profile: 24%
• Daily reflections: 12%
• Focus timer: 11%
• Goals: 1%
• Vision: 1%
• Notes: 1%

I built a whole goal-tracking system with metric tracking, milestone tracking, long-term horizons. 49 people use it. Out of nearly 4,000. I built a vision board with bucket lists, mission statements, eulogy exercises. 44 users. I built notes with nesting and icons. 27 users.

A bit of context. I'm a dad, married, and a few weeks ago, I quit my 9-5 contractor job. Not because the app is making enough money. I quit because my family needed me more than my calendar was letting me show up. Deep down, I'm hoping the app turns into something. Oh boy, it is not easy.

So I'm sitting with this data, and it's uncomfortable. I built features because they sounded right, not because users were asking for them. I confused "I would use this" with "people need this." Most of the app I built is dead weight to most of my users.

The question I keep coming back to. When you're looking for a habit tracker, do you actually want an all-in-one with tasks, goals, focus timer, notes, reflections all bundled in. Or do you want a habit tracker that is just a habit tracker, and the moment it starts doing more, it's already too much and you leave.

The app is Loggd. I genuinely don't know the answer. I've never been here before and I'd rather ask than guess.

If you've ever quit a habit tracker, what killed it. If you've stuck with one, what made it stick. Happy to answer anything. Including "cut more features".

Ok, so I need help.

I have this flow: register → onboarding → create habit → check it. In my head, it looked nice. But after 4 months of data and 2,500 users i have some conclusions:

• 96% finish the onboarding
• 75% create the first habit
• 49% check it

and that's the big drop-off.

I have push notifications (if they enable them) and an email sequence with reminders. Idk if i'm doing something wrong, if there's stuff to improve in the flow itself, or if it's just that most of my marketing is on Threads, where i post build-in-public content (got to 3.9k users in 5 months, ~70% from Threads) and people just come to explore. Or i'm doing something bad and missing it.

For context, in case you want to test it: Loggd Life The niche is competitive, productivity. The idea is an all-in-one: habits, tasks, pomodoro, goals, and way more. But habits are the entry point for me, since based on my posts people love the GitHub-style graph (i also do), so it made sense to start there.

Recently i launched on ios with a totally different onboarding, since mobile is not web, it's a big diff especially for buyers in this type of app. I made similar revenue on ios in 1 month as i did across the last few months on web.

So yeah, any ideas, suggestions, or maybe compliments to fill my ego, haha.

No, seriously. Thanks!

I'm bad at marketing. Always was.

I see posts here every week from people who clearly know what they're doing. Hooks, funnels, "10x my MRR" tricks...that's not me. I'm the dev who builds the thing and then has no idea what to do next.

But somehow, 5 months in, I have 3,390 users. Almost all organic.

So here's what I tried and what actually worked.

About me: dad, married, working a 9-to-5 as a remote contractor. 8 years as a dev. I build my SaaS before work, after my daughter sleeps, on weekends.

The app is Loggd. A life tracker. Habits, goals, tasks, focus timer, GitHub-style activity graph for your year. Web shipped Dec 10. iOS shipped on April 1.

What I tried:

Ads (€1,400 spent): Burned the money. Meta and Google. Got about 150 signups out of all of it. 2 of them paid. €700 per paying user on a $4.99 sub. Doesn't work. (What I learned from here is that you need a good funnel, until you jump into ads)

Threads: About 70% of all my users. I posted daily for 5 months, and over time, I had many posts over 10k views, 50k, 100k, the top post had +300k views...and most of my posts are about build-in-public or my product (if the post that gets viral is my product, that's where I get lots of users)

X: I've tried there, but on the same posts that on Threads get 5k, 10k,100k views, on X I get maybe 10-15views, I'm reposting from time to time but not big expectations...

Reddit: I had a few posts, "Post of the day" like 80k, 40k, 30k views, +200 comments, but I have less than 50 users from here, maybe I don't know (most likely), how to use Reddit, but that's that..

Shorts (Insta/TikTok/Youtube): 'I post from time to time, shorts on all apps, and add a small loggd url style with the hope people will see that on the video and access it, I need at some point what to do here, currently I'm not good at this..

Micro apps (50+): I've built micro-apps to index on Google, like "aesthetic pomodoro timer" idk, niche keywords like this, surprisingly I got +100 users from Google and +100 users from ChatGPT (according to Google Analytics )

Numbers today:

• 3,390 users
• 30 paying
• ~$150 MRR
• Total revenue +$1,200
• €1,400 lost on ads

What I actually learned:

• Personal stories work, and you can get some users, but if you get a viral post that is about your product, you get lots!! but it's harder..
• For Threads, I check my top posts, and repost them after some time, with small variations, surprisingly, it works
• Ads don't work.. you need to have a good landing page, good conversion rate, etc., before spending money on ads..
• The hard part of marketing isn't writing....It's posting on the days when nothing is happening.

I still suck at marketing. Just suck a bit less than 5 months ago.

Happy to answer anything.