Thank you for a thorough review. It's very helpful honestly. You raise some valid concerns I will make the following changes.
- I will add an option for the user to delete their account upon hitting the paywall if they don't want to continue.
- I didn't want the app to be free to begin with as it doesn't attract serious users and also because I'm an indie maker and free users is not something that I can ultimately afford at this current stage.
- You're right, I should have a way for the user to trial the app and then pay once instead of the trial being on the weekly subscription only.
As for guaranteeing lifetime access, a lot of web based products offer lifetime access and I guess it's just a matter of trusting the maker if they will support it. For my particular app I know that I've been involved in the productivity space for quite some years and only now making an app that suits my needs. I imagine myself using this for all the years to come and if I stop using it, it's self hosted on a server I own and I will keep it live forever. If the user doesn't trust that then that's completely fair and fine. No issues with that.
Lots of useful feedback, thanks again for the write up! Still building and learning and trying to be as genuine as possible.
For me personally I did try a lot of these habit trackers and notetaking systems and none of them quite worked for me so I just decided to build something that's very specific to how I like things. I didn't just build a habit tracker or whatever just for the sake of building another one, I built one that specifically suits my needs.
Usually what happens is a lot of other people in the world also feel the same way as me and if they like how I have approached the app then they would download it and use it and I think that's how you get a lot of different types of habit trackers coming up all the time
If I'm honest I haven't thought about it fully yet but atm I felt comfortable enough to give access for 29.99 forever. And if users don't want to spend that much and maybe only want to try it for a couple of weeks then they can get on the weekly plan with a free trial
Haha funny that you mention that because yeah I would like to have that in the future. it would be nice to have all my Strava data synced into this sometime in the future
Hey thank you so so much for the thorough feedback, it's very much appreciated! I will have a look at these bugs and fix them. I mostly just get time to work on this on weekends and evenings so progress is a bit slow but better than nothing nonetheless
Some history:
A couple of days ago my app finally got approved and released on app store.
Overall really happy with the release. Now I finally have something that I use every single day. Whereas previously I was using various different apps to journal, track habits, track my weight and manage tasks etc. Now I have all of that in one place.
Initially it was a website that I built for myself but I realised that something like this is better built in an app after speaking with lots of people.
I used Convex dev for my backend and that honestly made the backend part of creating this part very easy because I could just use the same structure I had for the web app. Convex was my choice because even for a website I wanted the data to always be in sync whether I access it on my phone or laptop.
The most annoying part about building an app is having to go through the review process of app store. For a website, I can just make a change and it can be live in less than a minute. But the app store review process alone took me 2 weeks to release this.
Using AI made migrating the website into an app really easy. I had some components like heat-maps and graphs which would have been really difficult to migrate over if I was doing this a couple of years back.
The idea itself actually came from reading lots of productivity books and then stumbling upon an interview from Jim Collins who talks about how he tracks his own life and makes sure it's going in a direction that he wants
Would love to see less front loading on the registration side - I fell off onboarding because I couldn’t get through the 12(!) page questionnaire.
The value proposition is clear, just let me use the app. Notes (my current solution for this) doesn’t make me read summaries of other people’s research every time I open the app :-)
I agree. And I dont understand how this isn't a universal rule for all of software: let the user use the thing ASAP. Just let me fucking play with it instead of forcing me to read intros, watch videos, click through a tutorial, etc. Just let me explore and interact! And only then also offer me some guidance that I can jump in and out of.
