Autopilot

Your perfect morning, every morning

11 followers

Your perfect morning, every morning

11 followers

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contact: hello@blacklotus.ooo Turn your morning routine into a step-by-step guided audio flow. Comes with founder faves like: 1 min workouts, gratitude, tooth brushing, and goal setting. Edit these activities or create your own to build your perfect morning.

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Trellis

Maker

Hey Everyone! We’ve been on a quest to figure out how we could build an app to give us reliably awesome days. We quickly realized that the key to a great day was a great morning. Amazing - so if we could just nail our mornings, the rest of the day would be excellent too? Yes, but there’s a catch. While it was easy to dream up a perfect morning routine, actually doing it often didn’t go as planned when the morning rolled around. We found ourselves crawling out of bed with low motivation levels, and getting off to a great start was a struggle. We wondered if mornings would be easier if we built an app that would literally tell us what to do, out loud, every single step of the way. TLDR; it worked. All we need to do is press play, and our customized morning coach is leading us through the routine we previously committed to. Autopilot has already helped us a lot, but it’s very much a work in progress. There’s nothing we’d value more than your feedback on how we can make this tool helpful in your life. Thank you so much for checking out Autopilot! Evan P.S. A note on privacy, data-ownership, and advertising. Our ethos as a team is to give you total control and ownership over any data you produce while using our products. Autopilot V1 is a completely offline experience. There are no user accounts and all data you generate exists only on your phone’s local storage. We do have Google Analytics in place to understand the metrics of how people are using the app. We believe deeply in attention ownership and don’t think advertisers ought to be able to buy a slice of your precious attention without your consent. Therefore, our product is currently free and ad-free, but we are a business and will seek non-ad solutions to monetization in the future, possibly via subscription or paid premium features.

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5yr ago

MetaSurvey

@the_esc Guys, you have built something great! There are not many health startups these days. I love the Autopilot morning routines and meditation approach. Branding is awesome also - faded-out retro colors are nice. I think you should add the WIM HOFF breathing technique and cold showers options for advanced users. P.s. Imao, you should work on the Autopilot logo, it is really generic and falls behind the main identity great style.

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@the_esc @stanui Adding Wim Hoff style breathing seems like a great idea! We could probably use guidance in this area, we've felt wary of infringing other people's IP when it comes to creating flows. I'd flow to partner with people like Wim Hoff and get their official seal of approval. Thanks for the note about our logo! Let us know if you know any great designers, we definitely don't have design backgrounds, hah.

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5yr ago

MetaSurvey

@the_esc @zencephalon You can IMPROVE logo today following 3 SIMPLE TIPS: - Use more bright colors in the logo. Don't use basic colors like white and black, they are dull (except you have an ultra-concept sign design) - If Using the first letter of your brand name "A", add some unique graphic trait to it, connecting with your app concept idea. So users can remember the sign and associate your app with the logo instantly. - Better divide brand name for beater reading, e.g. AutoPilot except for Autopilot

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@the_esc @gmail @stanui As a cofounder yourself I imagine you've got your hands quite full! Thank you for taking the time to recommend someone <3 I sent Ilnur an email mentioning that you referred me. :)

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@the_esc @stanui Wow, thank you for taking the time to write that out for us. That seems super helpful, definitely agree that we could make the logo more memorable.

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5yr ago

@zencephalon @the_esc Nice! Also noticed your company named.. Black Lotus Inc.. y'all are MTG nerds? If so, down to play some Arena with you guys! Looking forward to using your app!

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5yr ago

@zencephalon also, I'm a PMM at Taplytics - happy to get you guys set up on a Free Plan with Taplytics (A/B Testing, Feature Flags, Push Notifications, Customer Journey Automations) if you're up for it!

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5yr ago

@zencephalon One thing I noticed is how jarring the AI voices are. Maybe voice overs from the founders would be a nice touch imo or actual human voices in the future.

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@will_lam Hahaha, yeah U caught us with our hands full of Magic cards. You can find me at zencephalon#63100 on Arena. That functionality definitely sounds helpful, you can also email me at matt@blacklotus.ooo to send me details on Taplytics!

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@will_lam For sure, thanks for the feedback in this area. We've got human voice over in several of the Discover flows, but we really want to make sure people can customize flows so we'll have to fall back to TTS for that for now. I've got plans to use higher quality voices in the future (e.g. Google Wavenet) and we could also allow people to record themselves. Do you thoughts on which direction to take first?

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5yr ago

@zencephalon sent you an email and friend request on Arena!

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5yr ago

Ramp

Have yall read Manna by Brian Marshall? This reminds me of the AI in that short story except instead of our manager hijacking our brain to make us work more, our best self hacks our brain to make our lives better. I just switched from an early morning call schedule to a late night schedule here in Taipei so I'm excited to build out my morning flow with autopilot!

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5yr ago

Trellis

Maker

@davefontenot Thanks Dave. Excited to hear how it goes.

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@davefontenot Haha, yes! Actually Zain recommend it to me and the first part of it felt like ultra-near future sci-fi. ;)

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5yr ago

Ramp

@zencephalon wow just used it this morning here in taipei. that is a gamechanger. i so often go to bed with a plan for the morning and then i wake up and snooze until my first meeting and then play the rest of my day on defense. this morning, i woke up to my first alarm, opened autopilot and I feel like I won the day before my meetings even started. made it so easy to actually have a morning routine.

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5yr ago

This is exactly what I've been looking for! I already have a pretty good morning routine but it takes a bit too much time. I've tried to fix this this with time boxing apps but they don't really do the job. I'm very keen on trying this out tomorrow morning. :) One improvement suggestion / question to the ?makers: I would love to be able to rearrange the flows on the main screen (My Flows). Any plans on that? This way I could arrange my morning flows as I wish since I've planned 4 longer flows to be executed in a row. Or potentially link flows together and have them automated as a chain of flows (maybe a paid feature in the future?). I wish you guys all the best. PS. There is also a marketing automation tool called Autopilot (autopilothq.com). So it might be worth of considering updating the name to something like "Routine Autopilot" or something.

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@digiminimalist Hey Tommi! U can rearrange flows on the home screen by long pressing on them and then dragging. Let me know if it isn't working for U!

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5yr ago

Trellis

Maker

@digiminimalist Thanks I really appreciate your comment here Tommi! Let us know if you have any other ideas on how we can make this product awesome.

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5yr ago

Shiny

I love the concept and, in practice, it's amazing too! The UX is great and I can't wait to use my first "build" tomorrow morning :) My only question is: how can I have my build get triggered automatically after turn off my alarm in the morning?

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@jacob_sheldon Hey Jacob, that's a really great question. On iOS it poses a technical / product challenge due to the restrictions on that platform. We could send a notification in the morning but that's unlikely to wake you if you've got DnD mode on. I want to make it possible to wake you up in the morning if you open our app before going to sleep. The app would effectively run all night in the background. Not the most elegant solution.

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5yr ago

Ammersive

You should let people discover other peoples’ flows, it would be a nice a social aspect which allows fills the app with user generated content

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@sam_alexander1 Yeah! Definitely interested in doing this when we reach critical mass. Can you imagine some flows you want to share with the world?

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5yr ago

Ammersive

@zencephalon not off the top of my head! Out of interest, what stack did you build the apps with?

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@sam_alexander1 we built this with React Native and we've got a sweet Github Actions system setup using Expo's new EAS service so we have CI/CD with over-the-air updates and build submissions (only required if we make changes to native dependencies) and overall I feel really blessed to see how far the ecosystem has evolved since I started working in mobile apps. (Contents slightly copy-pasted, sorry!)

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5yr ago

Ammersive

@zencephalon nice! Although you should have called the app ‘Flows’... ;)

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@sam_alexander1 Haha, you're the second person to say that so I'll definitely consider it. ;)

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5yr ago

Really promising! The idea of having a continual flow of habits, without having to check the app to see progress, reduces the resistance that I currently face - having to continually open different apps for meditation, stretches etc, then having to open my habit tracker to tick them off. This looks like a good replacement.

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5yr ago

Autopilot

Maker

@zakatkinson Thank you for the bug report Zak! I'll get that turned around for you!

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5yr ago

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