@espitia7 - love the concept of building a social experience to encourage positive habits. That said, this has been tried in different ways many times. What inspired you to build this?
Reminds me of Complete (RIP, cc @jtzou).
@rrhoover@jtzou Hi Ryan! Indeed it has. I actually took a shot at the problem with another app - Habit Streaks. It was a simple habit tracker which lead me to build Tribes. The full story (5 min read) is here: https://medium.com/@espitia7/wha...
Creating habits is hard in it of itself and doing it by yourself is even harder. So I took another approach at the problem. Using your friends as accountability partners. Although some apps have used the community factor too, I felt they mimic'd popular apps with feeds and likes. Tribes focuses on bringing that sense of commitment and awareness with your close friends a.k.a. your tribe!
@chrismessina hi chris! Coach.me uses personal coaches or a community to help you achieve your goals. Tribes uses your close group of friends as accountability partners.
While I haven't tried coach.me's personal coaching, I did try their app. It is a great app with an amazing UI (kudos to designers). But I felt that a community of unknown people supporting me wasn't as effective as my close buddies pushing me and vice versa. That's the core difference.
Hello everyone,
I wrote a short article on how I came to the idea of Tribes here:
https://medium.com/@espitia7/wha...
I also made a 1 minute video explaining what Tribes is about here:
I'd love any feedback I can get. Cheers!
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@espitia7 Download it , but delete it jsut after, and the reason is that can't do anything without giving you access to my contacts which is very weird for an app based on habits, what if i want to join tribe already there ...
@otymix Hi oty! I apologize for making it feel like Tribes is intruding. The only reason we ask for contacts permission is so you can add your friends to your Tribe. I'll be sure to explain it better with our next release.
Your idea is great though. We do plan on having public Tribes so people can join without needing to create a Tribe with friends in the near future.
Thank you for the genuine feedback :-)
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@espitia7 you're wolcome, would be on of the first users once you have it for public tribes ;-) i'll follow on twitter to get updated , nice concept anyway ;-)
K. so I think for this type of thing to be massively successful it should take advantage of two types of integrations.
* Google Calendar
* SMS integrations.
SMS is pretty sticky and knowing people's time is relevant to building habits. I think the form factor of the app is wrong, but the problem you're tackling is massive/huge/ridiculously large.
@datarade Hi Kumar,
I agree. The problem is massive. I think everyone can relate to trying to get in the habit of exercising for example. We could all use a little help towards it.
Thanks for your feedback. Could you explain in a bit more detail how to integrate SMS? I didn't completely understand :(
@drewmeyers hi drew. Initially, no. My friends and I habe been using it for meditation, exercising and reading for example. If the case is that most people use it for only one type of habit, I'm open to focusing in on that.
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@espitia7 Insight timer is a great app for meditation (individual+community focus). My friends and I are using a whatsapp group at the moment to post exercise progress. An app like Tribes would be perfect for us ...if android version was available too. Looking forward to your progress.
@chintankarnik Hi Chintan! I understand where you are coming from. My friends and I used Whatsapp groups as well to keep each other updated on our habits. We even held monthly "meetings" to make sure everyone was on top of their habits.
Soon enough we'll release an Android version. I'd love for you to try Tribes even if it is with just one other person and see what you think. Your feedback would be really helpful being that you are using another solution (Whatsapp groups) at the moment.
Cheers!
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@espitia7 There is definitely a need for Tribes app; I'm on android phone...will give it a try when available.
@espitia7@m3tthew I think it look good enough to get users to try your product. Yes, you wont wind any awards with the vid but i love the fact you kept it scrappy and made it yourself.
@suholet Hi Dmitry. You're absolutely right. The price shows as soon as you tap the "Upgrade now" button which is not a good time or placement for it. I will be fixing this asap. Thank you for the feedback!
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