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Everyday.app Year 3: Approaching $5k MRR

Joan Boixadós on January 01, 2020

Hello and happy new 2020!! I'm not gonna lie, 2019 was a tough year for me, quite a few things didn't work out as I expected while I wasn't brave ...

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Midas/XIV • Jan 2 '20

Hey, good job on the app. I use something similar myself and there's a feature I would love to suggest.
I use it to track the days I go to the gym but some days I workout for half the time.
But I still have to 'tick' it as done. Like, even you said how some days your work on the app was almost irrelevant. Maybe you can add a feature to track the intensity of work.

I know this is almost irrelevant and bit extra to what you're going for, but it's definitely a problem worth taking up. (ex how to create the best UX for such a task, currently you only have a single click but this feature would make that complicated )

Joan Boixadós • Jan 3 '20

Exactly! The problem of all these microfeatures is that they have very specific use cases and every new feature compounds into serious complexity at many levels: communication, design, etc.

Without disregarding your suggestion (which is already on my list of 'problems to ponder') I think this feature is a) against the mindset I want to communicate and b) covered for.

By a) I mean that my mission with the app is to get people to do it every day (trust me, that's a pretty ambitious goal already). So doing it just a little bit is already a win from my point of view. b) Some people do use skips for days when they don't feel they achieved their daily goal (i.e did 20 push-ups instead of 50)