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My first app: Habit Streaks

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Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Post by espitia »

DLarsen wrote: post #19
espitia wrote: post #2

2 months ago I had only some basic HTML/CSS experience and was tired of only dreaming of shipping some product. I put myself through many long hours of courses with Treehouse and a lot of help from the community over at Stackoverflow and released my first app. I'm very proud of just that, shipping something. Any feedback would be very appreciated!

Really neat. This kind of simple approach to behavior improvement really resonates with me. I'm working on a (web) app that takes a similar approach to improving spending habits. It's the same idea that you track progress not merely in terms of bare numbers, but that you can also record some context and notes about improvement. Have you thought about adding support for sharing progress with other users? For example,…

Yes I have actually. The whole idea from the beginning was to build an app my 'mastermind' group and I could use to keep each other on check on making our dreams reality. That feature is definitely in the works. I just needed to release this to get validation and some initial traction.

Please post your web app when released, I'd love to give feedback and share ideas.

Cheers

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Post by pboschmann »

espitia wrote: post #17
pboschmann wrote: post #16

Congratulations on shipping. I've bought it as an expression of sympathy — I'm building apps in my freetime too, but they were too complex even for a two man show… so I've never shipped anything. :) What I would like to see in your app are high res icons. They look pixelated on my 5s.

Thank you for that. About the pixelated icons: I did not know how to do icons for retina until yesterday, I fixed them and submitted an update last night to fix that and a bug I found :)

Ok, I will check the store tomorrow for the update. In the meantime I'll try to cultivate a habit of getting up early in the morning. ;)

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Post by danieldankworth »

ToastyMallows wrote: post #7

Does anyone have any suggestions for an existing Android app that does just this?

I wrote a habit tracking app a few years ago, it's very simplistic and doesn't look nice but I use it every day and it does what I need it to do:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doboko.hab...

I've recently got a new phone (was on Android 2.3) so I'm going to try and release a new version soon to take advantage of the better UI available in the newer versions of Android, like the action bar. Going to drop the timer as well as it doesn't work properly, clutters the screen up and I never use it.

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Post by tronium »

It looks like a great idea, and a well designed app. Even as much as I want it, I'm afraid I can't justify spending $0.99 for a productivity app. Just my opinion, I would much rather have an occasional ad, with an in-app purchase to get rid of ads. Thereby, if I really loved and used the app, I would pay the price. Otherwise, I'm afraid not. Still a good looking app though!

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Post by espitia »

tronium wrote: post #24

It looks like a great idea, and a well designed app. Even as much as I want it, I'm afraid I can't justify spending $0.99 for a productivity app. Just my opinion, I would much rather have an occasional ad, with an in-app purchase to get rid of ads. Thereby, if I really loved and used the app, I would pay the price. Otherwise, I'm afraid not. Still a good looking app though!

I appreciate the comments!

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Post by GraffitiTim »

espitia wrote: post #14
Envec83 wrote: post #11

Congrats on the app. Looks pretty good. My suggestion: make it freemium. Give away the basic functionality, and charge for extra features. I believe this will make your app much more popular and also be more lucrative to you in the long run.

I will be looking into that, have to find the right balance between basic and premium. Thanks for the advice.

You could make it free for up to 2 habits.

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Post by hmcm55 »

espitia wrote: post #2

2 months ago I had only some basic HTML/CSS experience and was tired of only dreaming of shipping some product. I put myself through many long hours of courses with Treehouse and a lot of help from the community over at Stackoverflow and released my first app. I'm very proud of just that, shipping something. Any feedback would be very appreciated!

Congrats on getting it out there. Where'd you learn iOS? just using Treehouse? any other resources?

Congrats again!

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Post by dionidium »

Nice work! I especially like how you introduce the functionality with a couple default tasks.

Criticism/suggestions:

* It feels like I should be able to touch a task to select it (to show history?)

* I'd rather not be required to enter a note

* Redo-ing a habit still shows all the old notes (and crashed the app once)

* Swiping left to hide the redo/stats causes the delete button to briefly flash in a clunky way

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Post by espitia »

hmcm55 wrote: post #27
espitia wrote: post #2

2 months ago I had only some basic HTML/CSS experience and was tired of only dreaming of shipping some product. I put myself through many long hours of courses with Treehouse and a lot of help from the community over at Stackoverflow and released my first app. I'm very proud of just that, shipping something. Any feedback would be very appreciated!

Congrats on getting it out there. Where'd you learn iOS? just using Treehouse? any other resources? Congrats again!

Yup most of the initial learning was done through Treehouse. So much so that I did not know what language was to be used to build ios. They took me from beggining to complete projects. Then when building my own app, it was a lot of Google/Stackoverflow/trial and error.
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