u/karan_singh_21

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Hey everyone!

I built a small Android app because I kept running into the same problem.

Every few months I'd set a big goal—learn AI, build a project, get fit—and after a couple of weeks I'd slowly stop thinking about it. Not because I gave up, but because life got in the way.

So instead of another to-do list or habit tracker, I built something much simpler.

You set one goal for the next six months, and every evening the app asks one question:

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That's it.

Your answers slowly build a calendar, so you can actually see how consistent you've been over time.

I'm looking for people who'll use it for a few days and be brutally honest.

• Was anything confusing?
• What would you add or remove?
• Would you actually keep using it?

Android only for now.

If you're interested, I'll send you the APK (Google drive link)

Thanks! I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback—even if it's "I hated it." 😄

I’ve built a simple daily goal check-in app.

Core loop:

1. Open the app
2. Begin your day
3. Set reminder for night check-in how you did today?
4. Come back tomorrow

The goal is for users to understand the app within 3 seconds.

Would you expect more features from day one, or is this enough for a focused first version?

Over the last few years I've noticed something strange.

I spent a lot of time trying to become "more productive."

I tried to-do lists.
Habit trackers.
Time blocking.
Pomodoro.
Fancy planners.

Apps that promised to optimize every hour of my day. For a while, it felt like I was making progress.

But eventually I realized I was spending almost as much time managing my productivity system as actually living my life.

Instead of asking,
"What do I want to do today?"

I started asking,
"What does my productivity app want me to do today?"

That realization made me wonder if I'd accidentally turned productivity into another chore.

Lately I've been trying the opposite approach—keeping things as simple as possible.

One meaningful goal. A few important tasks. Then putting my phone away and going outside.

Ironically, I feel calmer, and I don't think I'm accomplishing any less.

I'm curious how people here think about this.

• Do you still use productivity apps?
• If you do, what makes one worth keeping?
• If you don't, what finally made you stop using them?
• Have you found a simpler system that actually sticks?

I'm not looking for the "most productive" setup anymore.

I'm more interested in finding something that helps me stay intentional without constantly feeling like I'm trying to optimize every minute of my life.

I'd genuinely love to hear how others have approached this.

Every study day somehow follows the exact same script.

8:00 AM : "Today's the day. No distractions. I'm finishing two chapters."

9:30 AM : "Before I start, I should organize my notes."

10:15 AM : Ends up reorganizing folders I'll probably never open again.

11:00 AM : Somehow I'm watching a video called "The History of Forks" and I'm fully invested.

2:00 PM : "It's okay, I still have the whole afternoon."

4:00 PM : Takes a 15-minute break......which somehow becomes an hour and a half.

7:00 PM : Eats dinner and convinces myself my brain deserves a little rest before studying.

9:30 PM : Creates the most beautiful study timetable ever made.

Color-coded.
Time-blocked.
A masterpiece.
Never opened again.

Then, at exactly 11:47 PM, something magical happens.

My brain suddenly becomes the most disciplined person on Earth.
"Tomorrow we're waking up at 5."
"Phone stays in another room."
"We'll finish three chapters before breakfast."

Tomorrow-me then wakes up, looks at the alarm, laughs, and goes back to sleep like we never had that conversation.

😭😭

Please tell me this isn't just me.

More importantly...

If you used to be like this but actually managed to become consistent with studying, what changed?

Just one thing that genuinely made it easier to sit down and start studying before my brain decides that tomorrow is the perfect day... again.

I've been building a small Android app over the last few days, and I've reached the dangerous stage of development...

The stage where every new idea sounds like "This would be an awesome feature!"

...until six hours later when your simple app starts looking like a cockpit.

The idea came from a pattern I kept repeating.

Every few months I'd decide this was the goal.

• Learn AI.
• Build a side project.
• Get in shape.
• Read more books.
• (Delete Instagram... for the 47th time.)

For about a week, I'd feel unstoppable.

Then life would politely punch me in the face.

Not because I changed my mind.

I just stopped thinking about the goal. It quietly got buried under work, YouTube, "I'll start tomorrow," and somehow spending 40 minutes researching the perfect productivity system instead of actually doing the thing.

So I wondered...What if I stopped trying to organize my entire life and just focused on one question?

The app is ridiculously simple.

You pick one goal for the next six months.
Every evening it asks:

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That's it. No XP. No coins. No streak that's ruined because you caught the flu. No motivational quote telling you to "grind while they sleep."

Just one honest question.

Over time, your answers build a calendar, and it becomes surprisingly obvious whether you've actually been making progress or just feeling busy.

Now I'm at the point where I could keep adding features forever.
Multiple goals?
Statistics?
Achievements?
AI coach?
A tiny dinosaur that yells at you when you procrastinate?

I honestly don't know where to stop.

So I'd rather ask people who aren't emotionally attached to the code.

If this were your app...

• What would you add?
• What would you remove?
• What would make you actually open it every day instead of forgetting it exists after a week?

Be brutally honest.

I'd rather hear "this idea sucks because..." now than find out after spending another month building features nobody asked for. 😅

I've been thinking about how most productivity apps slowly become more complicated over time.

They start with a simple idea, but eventually you end up managing tasks, habits, notes, streaks, reminders, calendars, statistics, and a dozen other things.

It made me wonder if the opposite approach would actually be more useful.

Imagine an app that does only three things:

• You set one goal you want to achieve over the next six months.
• That goal stays visible every day.
• Every evening you answer one question:

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Instead of tracking tasks, you'd simply choose one of three answers:

• Moved Forward (made meaningful progress)
• Showed Up (made some progress)
• Missed (didn't move toward the goal)

Over time, you'd see a calendar showing your actual consistency instead of a long list of completed tasks.

The idea isn't to manage work—it's to keep your long-term goal from disappearing into the background of everyday life.

I'm curious what people here think.

• Is this too simple to be useful?
• What's the first feature you'd want to add?
• Or would adding more features actually make it worse?

One thing I've noticed while thinking through this is that every extra feature makes the app more capable, but also gives users one more thing to maintain.

I'd love to hear what you'd change before something like this ever reached more people.

I thought building my first Android app would mostly be about adding features.
Turns out, most of my time has been spent deleting them.
The original idea was simple: pick one goal you want to achieve over the next six months and check in once a day by answering one question:

"Did today move you forward?"

At first I kept thinking of ways to make it "better."
I added multiple goals.
Then weekly statistics.
Then streaks.
Then achievements.
Then progress percentages.
Then notes for every check-in.
The app quickly became something I wouldn't even want to use.

So I started over.

I asked myself one question:

If I only had 30 seconds every evening, what would I actually do?

The answer was surprisingly small.

• Read my goal.
• Reflect on my day.
• Record whether I made meaningful progress.

That's it.

Everything else became optional or got removed completely.

The funny part is that deleting features has been much harder than building them.

As builders, it's easy to assume more features create more value.

But every button, graph, and setting asks users to think a little harder.

I've realized that simplicity isn't the absence of features—it's removing everything that doesn't support the core behavior.

Another unexpected lesson was analytics.

I spent hours trying to integrate Firebase before giving up and switching to PostHog, which worked almost immediately. That reminded me that sometimes it's better to change the tool than spend another afternoon fighting it.

The app is still very early, but using it myself has already taught me something.

The nightly question changes my behavior during the day.

Around lunchtime I'll catch myself wondering, "If I answer honestly tonight, am I going to say I moved forward?"

That tiny bit of accountability has been more useful than I expected.

I'm curious how other builders decide what to cut.

What's one feature you've removed from a project that actually made the product better?

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Started with a simple problem — I kept setting 6-month goals and losing track of them completely by week 2.

So I built Becoming. One screen, one goal, one daily check-in question. Did today move you forward?

Tech: Built with Rocket.new(60%), UI made with Figma, Self coding(40%), analytics with PostHog, reminder notifications included.

What I learned building this: the hardest part wasn't the app, it was figuring out what NOT to include. Every feature I removed made it better.

Would love feedback from other builders on what you'd improve.

Currently in developing phase just testing out the idea. Would you use it...!

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Becoming - Did you moved forward today? - Free

Becoming is one screen.
You write your single most important goal. Every day it asks: did today move you forward?

Three honest options — Moved Forward, Showed Up, Missed. That's it. No tasks, no complicated systems, just daily honesty about the one thing you said matters most.

Currently the app is in testing mode. I want some users who can test and give me the most honest feedback about the app. What things i have to improve and what features would needed.

Link : https://github.com/karansingh2-1/becoming_MVP/releases/tag/v1.0

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Hey developers,

I’m a solo dev working on a lightweight productivity tool and I’m at the point where I really need fresh eyes on the interface and user flow.

The core concept is an anti-bloat goal tracker. Instead of giving you a massive dashboard, the app opens directly to your primary 6-month goal, with a clean calendar view and a dead-simple nightly check-in popup (Moved Forward / Showed Up / Missed).

I wanted the UI to feel calm, spacious, and intentional—not stressful like a massive to-do list.

Since it’s only on Android right now, I’m looking for feedback on:

• Does the flow from the main screen to the check-in overlay feel intuitive?
• Is the "Moved Forward vs Showed Up" distinction clear enough?
• Any visual tweaks you’d recommend to make it cleaner?

Appreciate any notes or critiques you can throw my way!

Hi disciplined people,

I’ve noticed a pattern with modern productivity tools: they are completely bloated. I used to spend more time setting up Notion databases, color-coding categories, and tracking 15 micro-habits a day than actually getting work done.

Eventually, I realized that chasing a perfect daily streak for "drinking water" or "reading 5 pages" was just a form of structured procrastination. What I actually needed was to stick to my absolute biggest priority.

So, I built a minimalist Android app based on a simple premise:

1. Set one major goal for the next 6 months.
2. Look at it every single day.
3. Do a 3-second check-in every night answering one question: "Did today move you forward?"

It breaks down your day into three realistic states: Moved Forward (strong progress), Showed Up (some progress), or Missed (no progress). No complex graphs, just raw accountability.

It’s completely free and currently for Android only. I'd love to know what you guys think of this hyper-focused approach compared to standard habit streaks!

Currently I have lots of idea to be real. But they got lost when I don't write them and they never came back again. So I want an app where I just write my ideas and it automatically organises that and when I write new idea and it resonates with others there is make group of that so I don't have to connect dots. The one feature more which I think is very helpful and useful is that whenever I open a particular idea it suggest some follow up or something related to that idea which can bring clarity and new ideas from that.

I am also a dev and I can build this kind of app but currently I think let's ask if this kind of app exist or not. If this kind of app doesn't exist i will surely make one for myself and if that will help me then I will make it public so people can also use it and make their instant ideas into the real world.

Feel free to drop your comments on this and let me know what you think about this one.

Currently I have lots of idea to be real. But they got lost when I don't write them and they never came back again. So I want an app where I just write my ideas and it automatically organises that and when I write new idea and it resonates with others there is make group of that so I don't have to connect dots. The one feature more which I think is very helpful and useful is that whenever I open a particular idea it suggest some follow up or something related to that idea which can bring clarity and new ideas from that.

I am also a dev and I can build this kind of app but currently I think let's ask if this kind of app exist or not. If this kind of app doesn't exist i will surely make one for myself and if that will help me then I will make it public so people can also use it and make their instant ideas into the real world.

Feel free to drop your comments on this and let me know what you think about this one.

Built something to solve my own problem.

2 weeks later:
• 4,000 Reddit views
• 1 waitlist signup

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0.025% conversion.

Not great.
But it's also the clearest signal I've gotten so far.

People don't join waitlists because your product is interesting.

They join because the problem is painful enough that they want a solution today.
The interesting question isn't why 3,999 people didn't sign up.

It's why 1 person did.

Simple premise: your most important goal should be as visible as your clock.

I built a lightweight desktop widget for Windows that:

• Stays on top of your desktop
• Shows your 6-month goal, current month target, and weekly focus
• Prompts you to rewrite your goal in 30 seconds each morning

No subscription. No account required. No complexity.

I'm looking for 10 Windows users who struggle with long-term goal consistency to try this and tell me what's broken or missing.

Screenshot in comments.

I used to think I was bad at sticking to goals. Turns out I was just bad at keeping them visible.

Every goal I've ever abandoned followed the same pattern — I wrote it somewhere, felt good about it, and then never looked at it again. Out of sight, out of mind is not a metaphor. It's literally how the brain works.

The things I've consistently done — exercise, work tasks, replying to messages — all had one thing in common. They were always in front of me.

So I ran an experiment. I built a tiny widget that keeps my single most important 6-month goal visible on my desktop at all times. Every time I open my laptop, it's there.

Three weeks in, the difference is noticeable. Not because the widget is magic. Because I can't pretend I forgot.

If you struggle with long-term goals, I'd genuinely ask — where is your goal right now? Can you see it without opening an app?

I've been experimenting with vibe coding lately, and this is probably the first thing I've built that genuinely changed my own behavior.

For years, I'd set ambitious 6-month goals and somehow forget about them within a couple of weeks.

Not because I lacked motivation.Not because I didn't care.

The problem was that once I wrote the goal down, it disappeared into a notes app, a document, or some productivity tool I stopped opening.

Meanwhile, the things that constantly demanded my attention—emails, messages, work tasks—were always visible.

So I used a mix of vibe coding and my web development background to build a tiny desktop widget for myself.

It does two things:

1. Keeps my #1 goal visible every time I open my laptop.
2. Makes me rewrite that goal every morning in about 30 seconds.

That's it.

No AI coach. No complicated productivity system. No gamification.

Just a constant reminder of what I said was most important.

What surprised me is how much impact such a simple thing had. Rewriting the goal daily makes it feel like something I'm choosing today, not something I wrote down three months ago and forgot.

Funny enough, I probably wouldn't have built this without vibe coding. It was one of those "I have an annoying personal problem, let me see if I can build a solution tonight" projects.

Curious—what's the most useful thing you've built for yourself with vibe coding?

For years, I thought my problem was discipline.

I'd set a big 6-month goal, get excited, make a plan, and then somehow forget about it by week 2.

Not because I stopped caring.

Because nothing in my daily life reminded me it existed.

My inbox reminded me what mattered.
My calendar reminded me what mattered.
Work notifications reminded me what mattered.

My biggest personal goal?

Buried in a notes app somewhere.

One day I realized that the things I consistently paid attention to were simply the things I saw every day.

So I built something for myself.

A tiny widget that keeps my #1 goal visible every time I open my laptop. It also makes me rewrite that goal every morning in about 30 seconds.

Sounds almost stupidly simple.

But rewriting it daily turns it from a goal I set months ago into a goal I'm actively choosing today.

Since then, I've found myself drifting less, making better decisions, and staying focused on what I actually wanted to achieve.

Curious if anyone else has experienced this.

Do people fail goals because they lack discipline?

Or because their goals become invisible?