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[iOS] [Free Lifetime] Mivu: Morning Routine & Yoga | Move First, Scroll Later
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[iOS] [Free Lifetime] Mivu: Morning Routine & Yoga | Move First, Scroll Later

Hey,

I'm Alex.

I’ve struggled with headaches for most of my life, and since I spend a huge part of my day working at a computer, I also regularly deal with stiffness and discomfort in my neck, back and lower back.

About a year ago I was doing yoga pretty regularly. It helped, but then I got sick, stopped for a while… and never really got back into the habit.

Around the same time I read Atomic Habits, and one idea really stuck with me: instead of relying on motivation, change your environment so doing the habit becomes the easiest option. And starting with 5 minutes every day is probably better than planning a 45-minute workout that I keep skipping.

That became the idea behind Mivu.

I set a time in the morning and choose which apps I want to block. When I wake up, I can’t open them until I do my practice. I start Mivu, put the phone in front of me, and the camera detects my movement and counts the time.

Five minutes of yoga or stretching → done → apps are available again.

It’s a very simple idea, but so far it’s been surprisingly effective for me. It also has the nice side effect of keeping me out of social media first thing in the morning.

I’ve just released it on iOS and made it free. No subscription, no credit card, no paywall.

If anyone here gives it a try, I’d genuinely love to hear what works, what doesn’t, or what feels annoying. It’s still very early and that feedback would be really useful.

AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mivu-morning-routine-yoga/id6817517526

u/IllAd9097 — 6 days ago
▲ 8 r/AppGiveaway

[iOS] [$59.99/year -> Free] Mulu: A daily journal that locks distracting apps until you write (1-Year Access)

Ever have a stressful day and know that writing it out would help, but you scroll Instagram instead and feel worse?

I built Mulu - a daily journal that gently locks distracting apps (Instagram, TikTok, whatever pulls you in) until you've written a short entry. Mood check-in, 3 quick prompts, mood check-in after. Blocking is fully optional - works as a pure journal too.

Giveaway: 300 free 1-Year accounts (normally $59.99/year), first-come-first-served.

To claim: upvote, commet what's been on your mind lately that you keep meaning to write out, and I'll contact you to activate your account.

Thanks everyone 🖤

u/IllAd9097 — 3 months ago
▲ 9 r/directorymakers

How I ruined my directory website's SEO in three simple steps =)

https://preview.redd.it/3na1d3j3cuch1.png?width=2724&format=png&auto=webp&s=506b400c8f8e294135fc9a07cab40510e972f029

A year ago I built a list of winery hotels using a simple website builder. The website reached around 2k visitors a month and had growing impressions chart and indexed pages on Google Search Console.

At this point I decided to turn the website into NextJS app in order to translate it in a booking platform. Here's what I did next.

Step 1. While working on the new version I decided to change the path to my listings (nooo ). On the initial version I had listed all the winery hotels under a "hotels" category, but building a new version I decided to change it to "wineries". Don't ask me, why

Step 2. Then I decided to shorten descriptions for hotels and make them unified across all the hotels, and basically made them "not unique" and generic, "to make it easy to read for users".

Step 3. I built the catalog with client-side JavaScript, which meant Google's crawler couldn't see the hotel links at all. Only 24 out of 300+ are visible for bots.

In the end I got dramatic declining on impressions and clicks. It dropped 10 times from 2k-4k impressions and ~14 clicks a day, to ~250 impressions with 1-2 clicks, and ~70% crawled/not indexed pages.

That's what happens, when you have no idea, how SEO works.

How I try to fix it.

  1. About the path issue. I lost the momentum and the new path already crawled, so here I'm just waiting.
  2. I improved copy generating process and added more resources to crawl (directories, reviews and official website) to make descriptions more unique and rich.
  3. I kept the JS catalog, but added extra page with links to all the winery hotels with linking from the main page.
  4. Added breadcrumbs to make more internal links.
  5. Placed blog's articles on the main and countries/regions pages to make even more internal links
  6. Added countries/regions section to the main page to make more and more internal links. And now I'm waiting how it will show up in my GSC stats... Turns out SEO is less about tricks and more about not breaking the basics.

Has anyone else survived an SEO self-sabotage? What worked for you?

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u/IllAd9097 — 3 months ago
▲ 3 r/Solopreneur

None of the installs convert even into trial. Why?

Hey, I need an advice.

I built a daily reflection journal app with screen time tracking and launched it more than a month ago, but I still didn't get any trials, except from my friends.

I promote the app on social media and with Apple Ads, and got 3k+ impressions, and up to 70 installs, but none of them converted even into trial. Literally 0 trials started from this traffic. All of the trials you see on the screenshot I attached came from my Instagram friends...I wonder what could be a problem?

Have anyone experienced the same and how did you manage to fix this?

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u/IllAd9097 — 5 months ago