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Side Eye

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Dog-meme habit tracker for people who hate habit apps

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Dog-meme habit tracker for people who hate habit apps

8 followers

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A habit tracker for people who've tried every other habit app and quit. Built on Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret: don't break the chain.

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Launch tags:Productivity•Lifestyle•Memes

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Hey Hackers 👋. I built Side Eye, a dog-meme habit tracker, after trying a bunch of habit trackers on the App Store and quitting all of them. I tried the big ones. Apple's award-winning ones. Gamified ones. I'd stick to them for a week, then quietly stop using them. Eventually I went back to a small whiteboard. Which you can see in the demo. I noticed my partner, who also tracks her habits, had the same issue. So I thought hard about why a whiteboard works but so many habit trackers don't. I boil it down to: focus & simplicity. a) You want to spend as little time as possible using the habit tracker, so you spend more time actually doing the habits. b) Be as visual as possible, so you can see your week's performance. That's what a whiteboard does. And that's what Side Eye does too. The app is completely free to use besides the AI features. I tried to use Apple's on-device LLM to run insights, but it just doesn't work that well. The insights can tell you why your habits worked, why they didn't, how they link to other habits, and surface some geeky patterns. p.s. something weird I noticed. All apps on my iPhone are a bit too safe. So I knowingly made it meme-style to keep staring at you. I was worried about App Store rejection, but luckily it went through. I had many friends asking me "what's this doggie thing on your phone?" lol.

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6d ago

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@satya_botcha The whiteboard insight is spot on—constraints often force better design than feature abundance. The fact that you built this around actual friction points (friction with existing tools, not friction with habits themselves) is what makes this different. Curious how the AI insights perform once you nail the model—that could be the moat most people won't bother building. Love the dog, too!!

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5d ago

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@osakasaul Thanks for your reply, Saul. I tested the AI insights, it's pretty good at the moment. I'll keep fine tuning the prompts on how much information we deliver + the personality.

Also, one thing I didn't add above: you can only add three habits max to the app. And only edit or log for the past 48 hours.

a) this constraints you to pick what habits are truly important

b) makes you stick to them by doing it everyday, as opposed to giving people the choice to skip, log retrospectively for last week or something

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5d ago

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Love it! I tried it for one month now. This is the most simple and elegant habit app I ever used.

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5d ago