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Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Congratulations on getting your app out! I'm working on similar app, tracking and building/breaking good/bad habits. It's very close to an alpha release. Please get in touch if you'd like to compare notes (contact info on http://drewgoodwin.com ).

Will get in contact soon :)

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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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 the ship! But...why is it paid? If you're trying to develop a reputation for yourself, as well as get that early user feedback, I think you're making your job harder. Yes it's only 99 cents, but there's a tremendous amount of hesitancy to buy an app when there's such a strong expectation of getting for free. Being a first time app developer, developing an app in a crowded market place, only compounds that…

    >Yes it's only 99 cents, but there's a tremendous amount of hesitancy to buy an app when there's such a strong expectation of getting for free.
99 cents may make some hesitate but it's also low enough that I'll sometimes buy an app just to support a developer even if I don't intend to use the app.

Anything we can do to help uncondition the public that everything should be ad supported the better.

Congrats to the OP on shipping!

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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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!

HN got me to top 65 app in the productivity category for the USA. Thank you!

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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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

A few questions: - What do you mean by history? What would you like to see when a Habit is selected? - Thanks for pointing that out. I figured not all habits require a note. - i will look in to those two bugs. Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

- What do you mean by history? What would you like to see when a Habit is selected?

Maybe the progress for that task (i.e. old notes)? Either that or the stats, I guess.

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Pretty much the exact same idea I had about three weeks ago. Even wrote it in my 'idea pad' with some other detail. This has convinced me to get my ideas out sooner. Well played and good job! - (I am also very new to programming and the amount of ideas I have are unreal, so chances of me ever doing this were slim) - But it's nice to confirm my ideas were on the right track :)

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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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!

Is it native or scripted?

Re: My first app: Habit Streaks

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Hey big congratulations on getting your app released!

Looks really clean & minimalistic which user's love! I'm working on a similar app for achieving your goals, setting rewards & basically motivating you to success. I'm even using the app myself.. I would love to share ideas with you, maybe even a partnership of some sort.

Please contact me at joeytawadrous@gmail.com if you would like that.

Strive: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id877308957

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