I just love Sean's app. He's put his mind, body, brain AND soul into this project. And he's truly trying to help people to prioritize their lives and be happier. The app is clean, short & sweet. And I use it daily to organize myself, as a fellow founder.
What I love most about Heydai is how it helped me establish a habit of logging my time. I'm now much more aware of where my time goes throughout the day and tend to catch myself sooner when spending more time than I intended on something. All that said, I'm a bit biased so take this review with a grain of salt...
I'm excited to share this reimagined version of Heydai with you for 2024!
Heydai primarily exists to help answer two questions:
1. Where is all my time going?
2. Does my time match my priorities?
After several months of iterating, I'm confident in Heydai's ability to answer those questions and feel that it genuinely adds value to my day. I hope it can for you as well!
I would love any questions and feedback if you are willing to give the app a try. Thanks for your time, interest, and support 🙏🏻
@frank_denbow Amazing! Thank you so much for putting this together, Frank 🙏🏻 this is very valuable feedback I can use to improve. There's another section on the landing page you can scroll down to, 100% on me for not making that clear. Maybe a product video on the site would be better? Anyway, thanks again and enjoy your 🏀
I went through all the steps of visiting on my laptop, seeing it's an iOS app, downloading it on my phone, signed in with email (no Google Sign in option etc.), checking my email to get a magic link, only to see that a free trial with auto-subscription is the only option to try the app.
I hate this design flaw. Just be upfront about this instead of making the user find out at the end after they invest so much already. Do you really need such a fucked up design pattern to market an otherwise great looking tool?
@eltonlin thank you for taking the time to provide this feedback, Elton 🙏🏻 I don't at all want getting started with the app to feel this frustrating. If you feel this way, I'm sure others do too – I will reevaluate.
Love the History visualization! High data/ink ratio and lets you see progress at a glance. Agree with others that the manual tracking is a big hurdle.
Having worked on this problem a bit (inspired by Peter Drucker’s book where he mentions “time blindness” for execs), a big challenge I found is effecting actual behavior change. One approach I like is to pick a rather specific user segment - do you have any thoughts on whether you’re trying to help change specific behaviors?
@rajiv_ayyangar Thank you, Rajiv! Yep, the manual tracking effort is rough. With this foundation, I'm planning to build a lot more automation through a ChatGPT integration (in progress) and then others.
Effective Executive is one of my favorite books! The main behavior I'd like to change is what I see in myself using the app – 1) catching when I'm spending more time than I intended on something and 2) seeing if how I say I want to spend my time matches how I spend it, so that I can adjust.
I'd like to eventually narrow down to a specific user segment, but I started broad with the intent of doing more targeted experiments soon. I've found that I'm an ok developer and awful entrepreneur though, so admittedly this is probably not the best approach.
Love the UI! Though I was wondering if the app integrates with Google Calendar and task management tools like Notion/ JIRA ? Or would I have to re-enter my tasks and scheduled events on Google Calendar?
@stephanie_leung Thanks Stephanie!
Google Calendar is technically possible but inconvenient at the moment. Heydai can sync any calendar you have in Apple's Calendar app, so you can do it if you connect the Google calendars there first. Having a direct Google Calendar integration is on my radar to add 👍🏻
Notion/JIRA/Trello/etc. are something I'm thinking about. There's a lot of overlap between time tracking and task management, with Heydai more optimized for the former. For example, I still use Notion for tracking my own work tasks, but log however much time I work in Heydai so I can see insights about that time later. I think integrating with some of these tools would make it easier to track time in Heydai though, so I may add soon 👍🏻
Hope this helps, thanks again for your feedback and questions!
Wow, this app looks so cool! It is actually exactly what I was waiting for, except I unfortunately don't have an iPhone.
When will it be available for Android?