Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker (rdht.vercel.app)
Hello.
I was looking for a simple and clean habit tracker. I went through a few apps but felt they were missing something. I also had some time on my hands, so decided to make my own and share it in case anyone else likes it.
Some of the supported features:
Streaks based, track and beat your longest streaks
Fully useable offline
Freezes (similar to Duolingo's streak freezes)
Visual map for tracking consistency
Pause the app when you need a break or will be away
For anyone curious about the tech stack: - React for frontend - Dexie cloud for storage and syncing - Vercel for hosting
Link: [https://rdht.vercel.app/]
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 172 ms ] threadThe data is stored locally on the browser using IndexedDB so everything works offline. If you login, it'll sync your data with a remote server.
I haven't really thought about monetization as this primarily started as just a tool for myself. Might have to give it some though but not sure what I would monetize
It would also be nice to have some indicator (at the top) that all tasks for the day have been completed.
I also created similar habit tracker app for mobile https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yedev.habi... The unique thing is that I use google drive to sync habits
For the past days, if you click the 3 dots next to the checkbox, there's an option to add checks for previous days using the calendar
Doesn’t work well on mobile safari
I'll spend some time debugging on safari and see what the issue is
[1] https://alexsci.com/blog/personal-apps/
The style that was chosen, to me is deeply unsettling. These Well-lit, colourful, rounded, smooth 3D objects remind me of a chaotic, visually complex and triggering while trying-to-be-baby-safe environment, and indeed puts me into thinking the exact opposite of what I'd want to achieve with this product (which is eliminating chaos, and get my adult daily life sorted out).
Note that this is rather a weird angle and not a criticism of your product. I'm pretty sure it's only me, or at most a handful of people who are triggered into this state of mind. I found it interesting.
> visually complex and triggering while trying-to-be-baby-safe environment resonates perfectly, though.
On a side note: sorting adult daily lives out needs to embrace and make space for the inner child. I observe it everywhere at the moment: parents, old friends, even in my younger brother and myself. An unhealthy kind of stress, burnout and depression build up if you don't.
Isn't it munching on ice cream at 10pm, video games, and other indulges are for that? Also at work, I am (thankfully) able to tinker a lot while delivering value, and not under constant pressure to just grind, in a dry, too serious environment.
I think I do embrace (quite often) the inner child in me, but I definitely separate the "productivity" of my life from that: things that need the diligence, I do take seriously, and maybe this is what gives me this dissonant feeling when I look at this design language in the context of making me more productive.
I don't use Google Calendar often, so it took me a while to get the tracking part to work, but it worked flawlessly once I understood about the event naming
"Try for free" is ominous. If you have a paid plan, please have that on the home page. Otherwise, I wouldn't use that wording.
My intention behind "try for free" was to keep the barrier for trying out the app low. But I didn't realize that it would also imply a hidden price or some premium level
+1 for not requiring an account to try.
Needs debugging for iPad display sizes and on screen keyboards.
Might be helpful: [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2593139/ipad-web-app-det...
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Visual_View...
I made habit tracker visualizer based on Apple Reminders
https://public.me/anton/daily
Good luck !
Regards,
Pastry Hater
As an unauthed user, add a habit. Then log in. Habit has disappeared. (but can create habits, which then sync just fine to other devices)
I guess I was expecting my unauthed user habit to persist after logging in.
I don’t think I have diagnosable ADHD, but I have noticed that gamification features like “streaks” often cause more problems in building habits than helping them. My daughter, who is diagnosed with severe ADHD, eventually had to “give up” some of the streak based apps like Duolingo because they are, imho, preying on our desire to complete “streaks” only to increase in-app activity for their own platform.
I’ve been really loving Llamalife - https://llamalife.co - they don’t do habits but they organize a lot of the schema around people who get overwhelmed easily.
I love that the app from this HN submission is usable without creating an account.
Excited to try this out
I wanted to go habit tracing in a minimalist way, and ended up using checkboxes in Obsidian daily notes (and take them anyway, previously in Evernote) and plugins (there are a few, I use a combination of https://github.com/pyrochlore/obsidian-tracker and https://github.com/hedonihilist/obsidian-habit-calendar).
Are you on the free plan for Dexie? How many users do you think you can support with the 100MB limit?
Link: [https://calories.joeldare.com]
I too like the clean design and wish you good luck.