| Hello HN! I'm here to show you my latest project — Todorant. It uses cognitive psychology, carefully crafted limits and praise to trick the primitive brain into craving productivity like we crave sugar. It is available on web (https://todorant.com), iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/todorant/id1482078243) and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.todorant). I've built it all by myself and I'm pretty proud of it :) it is the first project of such enormous scale that I launched solo. A bit on my background: I've been struggling with productivity all my life until I took a turn towards reading more non-fiction. In the beginning of 2019 I red over 20 productivity and self-help books (some of them were useful, some of them were "meh") and tried to follow the methodologies they described. Needless to say, I failed every single time. Since I like to disassemble things and look into how systems work, I took concepts from books I've read and divided them in three groups: advice that helps productivity, advice that does nothing, advice that hurts productivity (e.g. when effort is not worth the productivity gain or when gain is negative). So I combined concepts that work from various methodologies and simplified the resulting system. I got a simple set of rules that I described in the article "How I launched 7 products in 1 year" (https://medium.com/@nikitakolmogorov/how-i-launched-7-products-in-1-year-efe542b1f8b6). Then the time came to automate the methodology into the system. Some of the rules are counter-intuitive. For instance, have you ever thought that separating tasks into projects actually hurts your overall productivity? If you don't believe me, may I remind you of that project (e.g. "sport", "reading", "self-improvement") that you never open? :) Please, share your objective feedback on the app itself, design and (most importantly) the methodology. I'm all ears! Thank you! |