[HN Gopher] Show HN: Foorr - A minimal to-do app with social acc...
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Show HN: Foorr - A minimal to-do app with social accountability
I've created Foorr, a minimal to-do list app that focuses on short-
term getting-things-done and the option to do this with friends by
holding each other accountable and helping each other grow
together. Main goal is to fuel your progress whatever needs to be
done and hold yourself accountable for your own progress (with some
external motivation). Here's what it does: - Create tasks for
today and tomorrow only (real hyperfocus on short term GTD). -
Invite friends to cheer each other moving forward. - Building up a
daily streak as you finish all tasks daily. All tasks completed
before midnight which were planned for that day, earns you a level
up. Rewarding that sense of completion. Why I built it: I used
physical post-it notes and was a bit done with it. I really wanted
something minimal focusing only on my to-do's for today and
tomorrow. No bloated features, nothing to fancy/polished, just
something no-nonsense I wanted to use myself. It might be useful
for others who struggle with procrastination and keeping op
progress getting things actually done. Feedback is definitely
welcome and nice to hear if this resonates with anyone else.
Author : 21oq
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-07-04 20:14 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (foorr.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (foorr.com)
| Vegenoid wrote:
| Requiring account creation to view the program, even see any
| screenshots or view a description of how it works, will stop most
| people from proceeding. It immediately triggered my "user-
| hostile" alarm.
| seeingnature wrote:
| I was going to try it but when presented with no explanation
| and an account sign up, clicked out.
|
| Great idea, could benefit from more upfront info.
| alwa wrote:
| I feel like I've been seeing more and more of this lately.
|
| Most recently somebody talked to me about a genAI video firm,
| which doesn't need to be mentioned by name but which had an
| elaborately produced brochureware kind of landing page--
| aspirational quotes, scroll-hijacking, the whole shebang. Now
| mind you, when I went to check it out I was motivated, since it
| was prompted by an IRL relationship.
|
| Not only did they require a signup to view anything about the
| product, but they required that you upgrade and pay before you
| were allowed go view any examples of what they have generated
| for themselves or other users. I still don't know if the
| product is any good or not, and I probably never will.
|
| Is this a generational thing? Or is it some kind of wisdom
| getting passed around the "growth hacking" kinds of circles?
| Vegenoid wrote:
| I'm guessing it's "growth-hacking" wisdumb. Presumably the
| logic is that it means that you have the emails of people who
| are interested in your product, both for metrics reasons and
| to be able to send them emails to keep them engaged. Maybe
| also with a dash of "if a user has created an account,
| they're more likely to feel invested and use the product"?
|
| I could be mistaken. Heck, it's even possible that it's good
| advice, but I doubt it. I'm guessing that this kind of thing
| prevents more new users than it hooks.
| dontdoxxme wrote:
| Also without a demo the TOS has lots of words such as: "You
| must not access or use for any commercial purposes any part of
| the website or any services or materials available through the
| Website."
|
| Fairly sure my work todos could be considered commercial
| purposes, so I don't even want to risk trying it.
| Wronnay wrote:
| Your app will be held back by requiring to create an account with
| email and password.
|
| Most of the users just use "Login with Google" or other well
| known OAuth providers and also want to try the product before
| creating an account.
|
| When I switched from user / password to OAuth I couldn't believe
| how many users choose it. I could deactivate traditional user &
| password login and nobody would notice it.
| xavdid wrote:
| That's fascinating! I mostly don't use "sign in with X" anymore
| since my password manager flow is pretty fluid at this point
| (so making a password is easy and secure). I guess for the many
| people who are less comfortable with password managers, a
| 1-click sign up/in is very useful.
|
| Thanks for sharing!
| projektfu wrote:
| I deal with ADHD and procrastination and to-do lists are already
| pretty psychologically rough. Sure, it feels good to complete
| things, especially if I remember to mark them complete, but when
| I have a lot of tasks I don't want to start, they all look
| gigantic and I start ignoring it.
|
| I can't imagine how awful that would be for social connections to
| be watching, maybe commenting on it. "Hey buddy, aren't you going
| to fix the scanner? It's been weeks".
|
| Gamification makes things worse for me. Maybe it feels good to
| have a streak and level up. But then something comes up and you
| lose your streak and that's like 10x worse. The app is basically
| saying you suck. That was my Duolingo experience, which is
| probably why they now make it very hard to lose a streak, but
| then it just feels dumb.
|
| I stopped playing Wordle after missing a couple days, losing the
| streak.
|
| Other ADHD/executive function disorder people might have another
| opinion. We're all wired differently.
|
| I say all this without trying it out because the pitch turns me
| off. If there's something unique that makes it better than social
| accountability and gamification, maybe put that in the pitch.
| owenpalmer wrote:
| I took the plunge and made an account to try it out. Here's my
| feedback:
|
| 1.Don't require an account, period. There's no reason to require
| it. If someone wants to sync their data, let them opt-in.
|
| 2.I sent a friend invite to an alternate email of mine. After
| creating another account, I hade to verify my email. This
| shouldn't be necessary, since the invite was sent to my email in
| the first place.
|
| 3.I got the two accounts to be friends, but there wasn't much
| benefit to it IMO. All it tells you is their streak, not the
| specific tasks they want to complete. I think there's a lot of
| room for improvement here. A. Let people see other's tasks. B.
| Let people add little emoji reactions. I think that would be fun.
|
| 4.When you check off a task, it takes somewhere between 230-342ms
| to show that it's visually checked off, since it waits for the
| network request to complete. I would recommend updating the UI
| beforehand.
|
| 5.I spent the time to write all this out because I think the
| principle of the idea is really cool. I have a rudimentary
| version of this with my siblings using a google sheet. We check
| the sheet once in a while to see how we're all doing with our
| stress-inducing tasks. Having a more polished and social version
| of this could be a lot of fun.
|
| Keep up the good work :)
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