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Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by robertlagrant »

sneak wrote: post #2

Thank you for not including surveillance in the app. I’m buying it to show my support for this decision, even before I know if I will use it or not. Edit: spoke too soon. It seems to hang on “Loading pricing plans…” so I can’t seem to. It’s good you offer a lifetime plan (the only way I would buy it) but subscriptionware is repulsive. Please consider just not using subscriptions.

> subscriptionware is repulsive

This is far too extreme. It's not repulsive. Just don't choose it if you don't want it.

Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by vapidness_is »

diimdeep wrote: post #15
vapidness_is wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use https://conjure.so/ it's by far the best habit tracker I've found

Free - Up to 5 Habits; $9/month - ; I can not imagine world where I pay this much for checkbox app.

I think it's much more than a checkbox app. It does time tracking, objectives, supports integrations with other services like Apple Health and it has a great reporting and data insights.

It really is an impressive and incredibly polished service.

Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by HenryBemis »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #14

Lovely looking app, well done. I hope you're able to build enough of a business around this to keep the updates and improvements flowing. To those complaining about subscriptions, it's the only viable way to build a business around an app now (even one small enough to justify hobby time spent on it when it's not so fun any more). Why? 1. Customer acquisition cost is sky high, after the initial release bump, getting n…

I had made one app for iOS back in 2017. What people don't get is that even if the changes on the iOS are minimally impacting YOUR app, you still need to be reviewing the iOS changes, testing, updating it constantly (every couple of months you need to make sure it's up to par). Also the time from clients' questions, getting feedback and making improvements, etc.

The fee also hurts. Especially if this is how you make a living. I pulled the app as the costs + income - time was not worth it (I put a big price-tag on my time)

> 4. Subscriptions = better software

this is the way to go, and one better has a darn good app because nobody will be paying you $1-$2-$5-$10 per month in perpetuity if it's not great

Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by astromd »

The problem with most habit tracking apps is that they don’t put your habits in context with the rest of the day. For example, let’s say you miss a day reading, and that becomes a pattern. Current apps may not surface the fact that you’ve taken on too many evening commitments because they can’t show you your calendar.

I’ve been using Chronicling, another iOS app by an indie dev, and it lets you track just about anything, but since you can’t get data out easily you end up having a silo of events about habits without any sense of why you may or may not be keeping habits.

So, I’m building my own activity tracking now with a grist database since they have a nice API and in the end you end up with SQLite files which are highly portable. I am integrating a bunch of iOS shortcuts and also using n8n to auto populate as much as possible into the tracker so that I can correlate habits with other daily activities.

Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by HenryBemis »

mezod wrote: post #22

The app looks good so far! As the indie developer behind https://everyday.app I'm happy to see more indies joining the market :) You have a lot of work to do ahead!! heheh Cheers and happy to help!

Cool shameless plug AND a very nice interface.. I really like the look of it!
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