HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game
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#2I highly recommend this, it changed my life, well, at least one of the three lives I still have left http://i.imgur.com/XN6z8US.png
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#3I find the UX not quite there.
For example, it doesn't let me stay logged in (no remember me). So, every time I want to check off something I have to bring up the login modal and login (which for some reason doesn't always work with lastpass). Why not include a remember me?
Also, there is no way (I know of) to go back in time and check a box. I just started using it, and I forget at night to check that I did get my coding done. There's no way to go back to yesterday's date and check it. So, I keep missing points.
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#4Looks interesting. I accidentally closed the tutorial. Is there any way to start it again?
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#5Looks interesting. I accidentally closed the tutorial. Is there any way to start it again?
Also, the ads look crummy when the window is too narrow, but not narrow enough to get to the next media query breakpoint: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2efgq76l4ojip16/Screenshot%202014-...
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#6It's also open source and available on github https://github.com/HabitRPG
The girlfriend and I have been trying it out the last week or so, it's a pretty good way to keep the flat tidy it seems.
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#7I find the UX not quite there. For example, it doesn't let me stay logged in (no remember me). So, every time I want to check off something I have to bring up the login modal and login (which for some reason doesn't always work with lastpass). Why not include a remember me? Also, there is no way (I know of) to go back in time and check a box. I just started using it, and I forget at night to check that I did get my c…
One thing you could do is have your day roll over at, say, noon; and then you can check in the next day instead (at the cost of having to remember what you did before noon today, until afternoon). I agree, it's not perfect.
Time travel is a tricky issue, because if you're in a party and taking part in a quest, your missed dailies hurt your party members. So if you go back and say "actually I did that thing", ideally it needs to restore health to them, after some of them might have died, etc.
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#8I'm not really sure how this game works. What prevents players from cheating by lying about their real-world activities to prevent loss of game progress?
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#9I'm not really sure how this game works. What prevents players from cheating by lying about their real-world activities to prevent loss of game progress?
Nothing, but then what is the purpose? You're only cheating yourself, and if you just want to play an RPG there are much better options...
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#10Looks like it's missing a bunch of retention hooks to bring users back to continually engage and check int. Whether it's email reminders, notifications etc. I created an account 2 weeks ago, only remembered about HabitRPG now after checking out HN.