"My morning routine helps you to discover what morning routines are other people following. That might inspire or guide you to change your morning routines to have a bit more structure."
It allows you to form a routine. A routine consists of a name and a number of activities. Each activity has a name, a duration and an order(1st,2nd, 3rd..). Routines can be public or private. If public, others can see and "play" that routine. Think of playing a routine like playing a playlist, instead of songs there are activities.
I kept seeing people sharing their morning routines on reddit, medium, youtube, etc. The idea was to have a platform where people can create and share their routines.
The app also allows "playing" and logging your routine, as the phone is more accessible for most, I thought that to be a better medium. Additionally, I wanted to test out flutter. Might add a web version in the future.
EDIT: Thanks for the feedback. I agree with the criticism as a user. It was haste on my part as a maker. I made a quick fix now, by adding screenshots. Hopefully, they will give enough information for a test drive of the app.
I always wondered why people think building an app is the best way to get users. Maybe it’s that a large number of phone users these days are used to downloading an app for a function versus visiting a website just to get sucked into endless notifications. Maybe it’s development preferences by the creator. Maybe we’re the odd ones out and people actually do download apps just to try them out.
How true is this stuff for the majority of people? Outside bubbles like HN? I don’t know at all. I do know most of the time, behaviors and actions described in HN comments aren’t connected much to how the world generally is. Easy low hanging examples would be how FB and increasingly anything Google is seen on here. Or feelings on self hosting or SaaS/subscriptions.
Give me a taste of what the app does, and if I like it I will download it. I wish you could redirect deeplinks from the browser to the appstore on your phone (something like google maps on android). That would also be acceptable.
I like the concept a lot, especially the timer. From experience, there's a lot of power in timing yourself while you pick up a new routine because a lot of people will get competitive with themselves and naturally start optimizing.
Besides saving time, the optimizations will force you to choose and order specific steps that are smaller than the name you've given your task.
So you write down "brush your teeth" but that's really pick up toothbrush, uncap toothpaste, put toothpaste on brush, turn on faucet, etc. There's a little wiggle room in what order you do those things and in order to really turn "brush teeth" into an automatic habit, you need to weed out those microdecisions.
Thanks! I plan to add analytics with the next update. Including showing how much "ahead" of your previous selves you are today. I am having trouble deciding whether I should compare to average, best or yesterday. I am also thinking if there is a fun way to make it competitive between users.
For people who find this type of thing interesting, I recommend checking out Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. Has the daily routine of lots of famous people throughout history. I enjoyed it.
Side note about the visuals of the app...I have not downloaded/installed the app...but from the screenshot on the relevant website, the app's UI resembles a sort of bubbly, more modern look of that old Motif/CDE, no? (Which i like motif/CDE stuff very much by the way - if done right!)
I think the design is done in the style of neumorphism if you want to do some further reading. But I‘m not sure it is particularly the best implementation of the design style compared to what others are doing with it lately.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 60.8 ms ] threadEDIT: Thanks for the feedback. I agree with the criticism as a user. It was haste on my part as a maker. I made a quick fix now, by adding screenshots. Hopefully, they will give enough information for a test drive of the app.
Your website doesn't have to be the full experience, but it has to be enough to convince people the app is worth installing.
I always wondered why people think building an app is the best way to get users. Maybe it’s that a large number of phone users these days are used to downloading an app for a function versus visiting a website just to get sucked into endless notifications. Maybe it’s development preferences by the creator. Maybe we’re the odd ones out and people actually do download apps just to try them out.
Besides saving time, the optimizations will force you to choose and order specific steps that are smaller than the name you've given your task.
So you write down "brush your teeth" but that's really pick up toothbrush, uncap toothpaste, put toothpaste on brush, turn on faucet, etc. There's a little wiggle room in what order you do those things and in order to really turn "brush teeth" into an automatic habit, you need to weed out those microdecisions.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15799151-daily-rituals
TIL, thanks!