I built a tool to be more productive
Hello hackers!
In my personal experience, finding the balance between hard work and fun is complicated, for this reason I created Dopaminite, it is a simple tool that helps you manage your time and improve your productivity. The way it works is very simple:
- When you start working, you must click on "WORK HARD", this starts the counter and you will accumulate 1 dopamine point ⚡ for every 4 minutes of work 🕐.
- When you need to be distracted (watch Youtube, check social networks, etc), click on "PLAY HARDER", this will start the counter again and consume the accumulated points at a rate of 1 dopamine point ⚡per minute 🕐.
When the counter reaches 0 an alarm will sound ⏲️.
80% work, 20% fun
And that's it! I know it's very simple, but this reward system is helping me to be more focused when I am working, I hope it helps you too.
Best regards!
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Gj! simple and neat. Saludos desde Bcn ;)
Haha this is awesome!
This is a great idea. Any plans for a desktop version for Mac?
Would be nice to have a white background version.
I never did a Mac app, but could be cool, yeah. I guess it shouldn't be too difficult with Electron.
Thank you!
I can do it natively for you, with swift. this way it will be a lot easier to have an iOS version too, ( I really like the idea ), shoot me an email at [email protected] if you're interested.
Check out Flutter too. Might be an easier path to 1 codebase, multi-device support.
Nice!
Thank you!
Nice. Would be cool as a PWA, installable on a computer. That way don't need to reach for your phone (and get distracted by fb and whatsapp...) to use it.
Good idea, maybe next version :D
Thank you!
This kind of features are really amazing and helpful for the users you can visit minecraft circle generator which is also very amazing tool.
It's awesome! :p O love the concept!
Neat - love the design of the app!
I really like it. I suggest you make it a browser extension and make the home page more descriptive in the meantime. If I didn't read this post before going to the website, I wouldn't know what it does.
Very cool!
Dude this is amazing. I literally just wrote an article on this.. under "Lessons Learned" about the technique I use. Great to see your tool!!
Thank you! I'll read it
I love this idea. Simple and effective. Great stuff Miguel. Would love a theme toggle if possible (light / dark)
I am surprised to see that people are liking the tool, I may spend more time on it and end up releasing a new version with more stuff, I add dark/light theme to the feature list. Thank you!
This is awesome, love the neuromorphic design seems to be a trend among the recent indie hacker products. How long did it take you to build this out?
Thank you!
I made it with React, one week approx. (not full time).
Haha.. This is brilliant! Love it :)
Simple, yet very interesting idea, Would be awesome to have an extension for this
Cool simple tool. Love the gamification of our productivity.
That's great and fun way 😅
This is really cool. Have you thought about building it as a mobile app?
Thank you @edjeffed!
Yes. A mobile app was the initial idea, but I decided to launch a webapp quickly to validate the idea first.
Nice one!! it seems super useful. I'm always looking for ways to be able to focus more and get work done!
Thanks :D