u/pb7246

So many small bad habits are just eating away at your life? [Story]

So many small bad habits are just eating away at your life? [Story]

Around 6 months ago I was genuinely just a normal person. I didn't even know how much time and energy was being wasted and spent doing cheap stuff like scrolling and junk food, I just used to live normally and i honestly didn't even care. Like i would pick up my phone when I wanted to, eat fast food whenever I wanted to, etc.

But then I don't really know what happened, maybe I got motivated or something and realised that I should stop junk food, stop spending my whole day on screens, get good sleep and basically improve myself. I seriously don't know how i came to this realisation.

And so I woke up the next day feeling excited to change my life, like a better lifestyle was waiting for me in the future. I had this app I had installed on my phone that tracks what habits you avoid, and the app literally hyped me up because it projected I can get clear skin and stuff in like a month by not faltering to the 4 habits I chose to avoid.

Now here we are like 6 months later and I have clear skin lol. And a physique I can be confident in. I cannot go one day without tracking my progress, tracking my sleep and workouts and stuff. I haven't eaten junk food in so long i don't even remember the last time I ate that stuff.

Just sharing my story, weird how your life can change out of the blue.
Let this post be that one wake-up call I experienced.

(I'm not advertising, last time I posted I got so much slander saying I was trying to advertise something. I'm not. : )

Edit: People are asking for the app, here: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/ripple-break-bad-habits/id6770034250

u/pb7246 — 15 hours ago

I literally just clicked away my bad habits like Thanos

Around 6 months ago I was genuinely just a normal person. I didn't even know how much time and energy was being wasted and spent doing cheap stuff like scrolling and junk food, I just used to live normally and i honestly didn't even care. Like i would pick up my phone when I wanted to, eat fast food whenever I wanted to, etc.

But then I don't really know what happened, maybe I got motivated or something and realised that I should stop junk food, stop spending my whole day on screens, get good sleep and basically improve myself. I seriously don't know how i came to this realisation.

And so I woke up the next day feeling excited to change my life, like a better lifestyle was waiting for me in the future. I had this app I had installed on my phone that tracks what you DON'T do, not like the habit trackers. And the app literally hyped me up because it said I can get clear skin and stuff by not faltering to these bad habits. Tbh that app probably kept me consistent because of the hope it gave me.

Now here we are like 6 months later and I have clear skin lol. And a physique I can be confident in. I cannot go one day without tracking my progress, tracking my sleep and workouts and stuff. I haven't eaten junk food in so long i don't even remember the last time I ate that stuff.

Crazy how life can change out of the blue. Really grateful to be happy with my progress as a person.

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u/pb7246 — 7 days ago

All this health data on my wrist and I still have no idea what to do with it

Been wearing my watch for years and tracking everything. HRV, sleep, workouts, resting heart rate, steps. The data just keeps piling up.

But honestly I still make the same decisions I would have made without any of it. I'll see my HRV is low and just think "huh, interesting"

The numbers don't exist in isolation either. A bad sleep apparently affects HRV which affects training which affects next night's sleep. Like It's all connected but I'm looking at each metric separately and trying to connect the dots myself which I'm clearly not very good at.

Started dumping everything into an AI a while back just to get some clarity. That actually helped but it's just so tedious to do every day.

Anyone else feel like they're collecting data without actually benefiting from it? How do you actually make sense of it all day to day? Feel free to DM me if you want to talk about it.

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u/pb7246 — 12 days ago
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I wear a tracker every day. I log my workouts. I track my sleep. I've been doing this for years.

But every week I still find myself opening five different apps, copying numbers into a notes app, and trying to figure out what it all means together. Why is my HRV low this week? Is it the training load, the sleep, the stress? It's a whole rabbit hole to try figure out everything.

The frustrating part is the data is all there. It's sitting in Apple Health doing nothing. My tracker knows my sleep. My workout app knows my training load. But they never talk to each other so I'm left doing the detective work myself.

I just want something to look at everything together and tell me in plain English what's actually going on and what I should do about it.

Is anyone else doing this manually? How are you making sense of it all?

DM me if you want to talk about it and discuss solutions, genuinely curious how other people are handling this.

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u/pb7246 — 19 days ago

I've been tracking my health for years but honestly had no idea what most of it meant. HRV, recovery scores, sleep stages, all these confusing numbers just sitting there.

I'd open Apple Health and just stare at graphs and just open Whoop and get a recovery score with no real explanation. Why don't they just use English and tell me what to do??

So I started looking for an app that just explains everything in plain English with no confusing dashboards or scores. Just one clear message every morning based on all my data combined.

Something that answers questions like: why am I so tired this week? Should I work out today? Am I overtraining? In plain language, like a friend who actually knows your body, not like a medical textbook.

You shouldn't need to know what HRV means to benefit from tracking it. You shouldn't need a degree to understand your own sleep data.

Does anyone else feel this way? I've been going down a rabbit hole on this and would love to hear how other people are dealing with it. DM me if you want to chat about it.

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u/pb7246 — 21 days ago

Six days ago I had an idea and a blank screen. Today the app is sitting in the review queue for the second time.

The idea came from a post I made about connecting sleep and training data. 25k views and a bunch of DMs later I decided to just build it since I'd learned how to code.

Mochi is a health companion app with a panda mascot that reads your health data and tells you exactly what your body needs today. One daily action card every morning. An AI chat that actually knows your numbers. No complex dashboards and scores and numbers.

The problem I kept running into personally: all this data sitting in health apps that never talk to each other. Nobody connects the dots and tells you what to actually do. That's the gap.

Got rejected on the first submission unfortunately. Fixed it the same day and resubmitted. Didn't sleep much.

What's next: Waiting on approval. Building the audience in the meantime.

Milestone 1: $1k MRR

My question: How do I actually get users now that the idea is validated and the MVP is built? I'm looking for feedback for the app as well if anyone wants to try it

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u/pb7246 — 24 days ago

Five days ago I had a basic SwiftUI home screen and a dream. Today Mochi is sitting in the App Store review queue.

Mochi is a health companion app with a panda mascot that reads your Apple Health data and tells you exactly what your body needs today. One daily action card every morning. An AI chat that actually knows your numbers.

The thing that nearly broke me: HealthKit records 0 on days you don't wear your watch, not nil. Took me way too long to figure out why the AI was telling me I slept 0 hours.

Stack: SwiftUI, HealthKit, Claude API, RevenueCat

Now I wait. Fingers crossed Apple likes pandas.
It's been fun building apps, I think I found my new hobby.

Here's the waitlist if anyone is interested:
https://forms.gle/c3QjTiMDmJiu8k8F7

u/pb7246 — 26 days ago