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Hello everyone! I built a Pomodoro timer that links with your Spotify account.

http://www.musicproductivity.com

Hello everyone! I built a Pomodoro timer that links with your Spotify account. It pauses and plays your music at set intervals to remind you to take breaks!

www.musicproductivity.com

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Its free to use so please have a go and let me know what you think!

#product-feedback-request

submitted this linkon February 14, 2019
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    what happened to this? :) looking for this. although also see it comes as built in to windows 11.

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    You need a music inspired background on the website.

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      Yes it is, thanks for the spot, I will update.

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    Cool idea!

    A few thoughts:

    • I started by opening the settings and playing around with the session length, break length, etc. It would be nice to have a "Reset to defaults" option
    • Personally I have a lot of playlists but only one or two I use when working. It would be nice if it automatically selected the "work" playlist, or if it randomly chose from a few that we have pre-selected.
    • Volume setting right in your app would be nice too, with this and the above recommendation I would never really have to look at the Spotify app
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      Great suggestions, thanks! I think I will put all these ideas in, a similar idea that someone else suggested was to alternate between playlists (work and play). This is something I have considered but would want it to not be jarring.

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        I agree on the playlist thing. It's the first thing I did when I logged in (find a way to switch to my work playlist). I see now it's just using my currently played list (I think), so that's fine and I can control it, but maybe let folks know that's what's happening (it could be hidden in the settings or somewhere.

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        If the "play" playlist is for the breaks, it could be a problem if the work and play are too similar. you might not realize that the switch has happened

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          But if you play bubble shooter, maybe you will have different feelings?

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    Nice idea, how do you plan to monetize it?

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      My original idea was to use advertising, as users typically spend quite a long time on the site due to them working for long periods of time I thought it could be profitable. I now plan to use it as a feeder site for my other project (an auto-scheduling habit forming app) which I hope to release next week. howtodomore.com

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        I like the idea of using it as a feeder site. This is a technique that isn't used enough

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          I second that. Ads would drive me right away, but attracting pomodoro folks (in a fun way) is a great way to build a focused audience/list/whatever. Nice thought.

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    Neat idea, but I'm a youtube music user myself so can't really give any feedback!