Everyday 3.0

The visual habit tracker👋 Hello ProductHunters, and happy new year!

Thank you 🙏 @chrismessina for hunting https://everyday.app once more! 🎯

Everyday 3.0 is here to welcome 2023! 🎉 I'm super happy to share the progress I've done on Everyday (by doing a little bit every day ;D) since I first launched it on PH (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) when it got quite some love from you! (Nominated to App of the Year 2018 in the Kitty Awards :D). Back then it encouraged me to quit freelancing and start working on it full time turning it into the indie business I always dreamt about...

The app has been featured as Apple's App of The Day a few times and it was Product of the Day on January 1st 2021! (https://www.producthunt.com/prod...) Pheeew.... that's already 2 years ago !_!

Soon, it will be 6 years since I started working on it (🤯) as a side-project and what can I say, I have just been doing a little bit every day (;D) for a very long time. I started Everyday as a personal growth challenge to prove myself that I could build a meaningful micro business helping thousands become better versions of themselves. There is still a long way to go and work to be done, but I am very happy to be here on PH welcoming 2023 and appreciating that my efforts have been meaningful to many and that we must look at any changes as new opportunities for growth. Let's keep doing it every day!

My current streak of working on everyday is of 🎉 1584 days and my longest streak is 🔥 1845 for doing 💪 30 push-ups before going to sleep (https://app.everyday.app/2/2)! What are you going to do every day on 2023?

✨✨✨PROMO 20% OFF✨✨✨: By signing up through this link https://everyday.app/?promo=PROD... you'll get a 20% discount to start 2023 making sure those New Year Resolutions are still there past January ;)

🔍 About

"Every day, it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day, that's the hard part." everyday.app is a simple and beautiful habit tracker available on the 🌐 Web, 📱 iOS and 📱 Android, 💻 macOS and 🥁🥁🥁🥁... ⌚ watchOS! It also comes with web extensions to set it as the default new tab for Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Safari. It helps you form new habits by doing a little bit every day, no matter how little.

🆕 What's new on v3.0?

📱Major revamp of the Board: It might not sound as the flashiest feature but having rewritten the most characteristic UI of the app has massively improved the UX. It really is a delight to navigate the board and visualize your progress and track your habits. Not only it has become much more performant, it has also allowed me to add -->

🎬 Animations/Haptics: Animations/Haptics to reinforce the main concepts of the app, building a streak and colouring the board that represents our personal growth has to be a delight, rewarding by itself. It's all about the UX! Some examples are the perfect day, perfect board and streak animations! They are especially awesome on bigger screens ;D

🎛️ Controlpanel: This is probably a geeky name for an awesome feature. The side controlpanel makes it much easier to experiment with habits and routines, sorting them, changing their schedule, notifications and even colours. Isn't eating an apple in the morning sticking? Let's try to move it to dinner dessert!

🔒 Offline/Privacy: The app now works fully offline and doesn't require an account if you want to make sure only you have access to your data. Your data is always yours.

💻 Infinite history: You can scroll back as much as you want, in case the yearly overview is not enough. This is especially helpful for those who migrate from other apps or who have already started tracking a habit and want to easily input their data!

✨New onboarding: I wanted people to at least learn something good for them from the science of habits during their first interaction. So that even if they never come back to the app again, they'll have still gotten something out of it. Of course the onboarding is a good way to start on the right track!

🖥️ Safari web extension: Web extensions allow you to set Everyday as your browser's default new tab. This was the most impactful feature early on and Safari's extension joins those of Firefox, Chrome and Edge :)

aaaaand a ton more of small improvements...

Also, remember you can share individual habits, for example look how I am doing with my eating healthier every day challenge for 2022... https://app.everyday.app/2/10 ... pretty good but I should do better!

❓Feedback

I wouldn't have gotten here without the feedback you've all been providing me so.. What else would you like to see? Shoot me an email at [email protected] :)

📖 Story

In early 2017, I was tired of scratching the same tasks off my daily todolist day after day. It was super frustrating to keep scratching 🏋️‍♂️ “go to the gym” or 🍏 “eat a fruit” no matter how many times I did it. There was no visualization of progress. Before I even thought about working on it, I had doodled the design of what would become the first version of everyday.app.

One month later, the first working prototype was ready. After sharing it for free on reddit’s r/GetDisciplined it blew up to the frontpage with more than a thousand signups and over hundred daily users. As someone who had never made $1 for any of his little productivity apps and influenced by the bootstrapping stories on HackerNews I gave it a try. More than 30% of the users back then paid. That really changed my mindset.

For months, it was the sideproject I never had enough time to work on. Thankfully, the app itself helped me form the habit to keep working on it every day, even if it was just 10 minutes when work kept me busy. Finally, in October 2018, I took the plunge, quit freelancing and started working full-time on it taking it to where it is now: 🚀 A minimal, beautiful habit tracker that’s both on the web and on mobile helping thousands become better selves by doing a little bit every day!

You can read my 2017 IndieHackers interview here for more details: [https://www.indiehackers.com/int...

💰 Biz model

The ultimate goal in my business model is to be able to afford offering much more for free so that many more people can enjoy the benefits of habit tracking. As a bootstrapped indie business, I keep pushing into this direction slowly but steady. This has allowed many more users to use the app for free for a long period 😄, which ultimately has led to more people subscribing for the premium features 😊.