Cuppalist

Every todo app I tried kept score against me. Miss a day and you would open it to a wall of red: overdue labels, angry counts, a backlog that read like an accusation. The app was meant to help me start my day. Instead it made me avoid it, and eventually I stopped opening it entirely. A strange outcome for a productivity tool.

So I built the one I wanted. It is called Cuppalist, and the core idea is simple: there is no overdue label, anywhere. Whatever you do not finish today quietly rolls over to tomorrow, the way a reasonable person would treat it. Your history shows what you actually did, not what you failed to do. Opening it feels like a fresh morning, not an audit.

A few other choices fell out of that same philosophy. Recurring chores show up on their own when they are due. Long term stuff lives in tidy project lists instead of cluttering today. The name comes from my own routine: coffee first, then the list. Cuppa plus list.

It has grown a fair bit since those first sketches. Projects can now be viewed as kanban boards when a list is not enough. There is a daily planner for laying out your day in order, and analytics so you can see your own patterns over time. The newest addition is an MCP connector, which lets Claude read your list. You can ask it what is on your plate today, or have it summarise what you actually got done in the last 30 days. It is read only by design, so the AI never touches your tasks, it just helps you see them. I use that one constantly myself.

I built it solo, nights and weekends, and launched a little over a month ago. The people who use it daily seem to genuinely like it, which has been the most encouraging part of the whole thing.

Now I am in the stage every builder here knows: the product exists, and the job is getting it in front of the people who have the exact problem it solves.

So a question for those further along. When you built something for a feeling rather than a feature checklist, how did you find your people? Communities, content, word of mouth, something else entirely? I would love to hear what actually worked.

You can see it at cuppalist.com if you are curious.