... spent months trying out every newhabit tracker, note-taking app, and task manager featured on product hunt, constantly tweaking my setup instead of doing the actual work. once i stripped everything down to a simple text file and a basic calendar, my daily output doubled overnight. when did you realise that setting up productivity tools was turning into a form of productive procrastination ...

... because the fix seemed fine and the app was working. I am not blaming the tool. Small requests led to large changes, and I took it as such without even looking closely. Since then, I have developed two newhabits: ask for the minimal change and read every line related to data format changes, no matter how boring the rest of the diff is. The second

... Habit building is kind of tricky and serious researchers looked into it to understand how the brain works when building new

... agents are already changing how we work. Hard to deny that now. People are building newhabits around digital companions and agents in funny ways. I even know someone who had a brand-

... feels like every newhabit tracker wants to be the next Notion requiring a 10-minute setup and an email address just to get started. I got so frustrated by this that I just built a completely zero-login, frontend-only tracker for my own launch today. Do you think there is still a market for single-purpose, frictionless utility apps, or does everything need to be an all-in-one workspace ...

... trust most now is not requests and not instinct, it is: does this feature touch the one or two things people already do every day? If yes, build it. If it needs the user to pick up a newhabit, I am very careful, because a feature that asks people to change their behaviour usually loses. I do not have a clean before-and-after example for you, I am still watching for it. What ...

... Everything else I tried for a week, got excited about, then quietly uninstalled. What I've noticed: the tools that stuck are the ones that replaced something I was already doing, not the ones that asked me to build newhabits. The "you should also do X now with AI" tools rarely survive. The "you already do X, here's a faster way" tools do. Curious what's actually survived the hype cycle for you - and whether you've noticed ... ... pattern in what makes something sticky

... weeks ago I started using a habit tracker that lets you: Build new

... before we built the dashboard too.) Comment from Varun Mishra(@varun1jan): I haven't solved churn myself yet, but one thing I've observed is that retention seems to improve when a product answers an existing habit instead of trying to create a new

... never been good at building newhabits. I'd start something, feel motivated for a week, then life would get in the way and I'd just... stop. The worst part wasn't failing. It was not knowing why I kept failing. And not knowing what to actually do about it. --- So earlier this year I decided to do something about it. I'm a solo developer from Thailand with no startup background, no team, no funding. Just someone ...

... April 10th) - we went with WhatsApp and iOS as our interface because it is where people already are. Sometimes the best product decision is meeting users in a place that feels natural rather than asking them to adopt a newhabit altogether. What made you go with the 3-day trial specifically? Curious about the conversion data behind that decision. Comment from Adenekan Wonderful(@adenekan_wonderful): @apparentforgmail  Thanks! That's fair feedback on the trial length, i agree that ... ... days is short if you're trying to build a

... hours a day there exercise (I work out following YouTube videos) I'd say productive use is around 60 70%. But I want to reduce the total time overall and shift more toward productive use: work and learning new things. To monitor my PC activity, I use @SurfPal  I found it on PH (which only shows analytics of where I spend time and how often) and Activity Monitor within Mac. But still struggle to find a time for learning ... ... functioning at its optimal limit Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @agraciag   that's needed. Work habits

... thoughts, worries, goals. If I have a problem I'm stuck on, I go for a walk and then I have 5 ideas to try on it and i get by - HUGELY RECOMMEND it. I would love to try newhabits , so please tell me. What are some or one

... currently building Mentor del 1% and I'm struggling with a specific decision: Is it better to have manual check-ins to build discipline, or automated tracking to reduce friction? What feature has actually helped YOU stick to a newhabit for more than 30 days? I want to build something that truly adds value, not just another notification machine ...

... university. Even then I knew only basics of pascal. I know how code works like in general, but nothing more. Some time ago I spontaneously had this idea to build an app which will help people to make new good habits

... Starting a newhabit like journaling is hard. This is why we are releasing our in-app achievements feature today. You can unlock these achievements by journaling and performing other actions in the app. Keep track of your achievements from your profile page. Hopefully, this adds a bit of fun to your journaling experience and encourages some of you to keep the momentum up. We are planning to release more creative achievements that you can unlock over the next weeks ...