Habit Card

I got my first monthly subscription sale of Habit Card from US. Lets see if the user retian! As the week unfolded, another subscription joined the melody of success.

On launch day, a user shared their positive experience with the habit tracker and even recommended it to others. Exciting start!

After two weeks of beta testing and 1 month of pre-registration I released Habit Card for Android users.

The app has already garnered interest from users worldwide, with the majority of my audience coming from India and the United States. I look forward to seeing how Habit Card helps people improve their habits and enhance their daily routines.

I connected with Jakob through Bluesky. He runs FakeMayo.com, a platform that features stories of entrepreneurs and how they acquired their first 100 users.

At the time of being featured, Habit Card was in its pre-registration phase.

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You can read my story here.

After two weeks of beta testing, I launched pre-registrations for my habit tracker app, Habit Card, on the Google Play Store. Pre-registration is a great way to generate interest and build anticipation before the official launch, and I wanted to make the most of it.

To incentivize users to sign up, I offered an exclusive deal: a 100% discount on the Lifetime plan, valued at $15, for all pre-registered users.

Thanks to this strategy, I was able to onboard 152 users through pre-registration alone. These users now form the initial base for my app, providing valuable feedback and creating momentum as I move toward scaling and promoting the app further.

Key Takeaways:

• Offer a strong incentive: The free Lifetime plan added a clear value proposition that encouraged users to act quickly.

• Build anticipation: Pre-registration helped create excitement around the app before its official launch.

• Engage with early users: This initial group of users is crucial for feedback and word-of-mouth promotion.

Pre-registration proved to be a win-win, as it helped me gain a solid user base while giving my audience something valuable in return. If you're launching an app, I highly recommend incorporating a pre-registration strategy with a compelling offer to attract early interest.

After a month-long development and testing cycle, the time has finally come to release Habit Card for beta testing.

Engaging with the #BuildInPublic community brought 25+ testers on board, whose valuable feedback helped refine notifications and improve the app's design.

The first step was creating wireframes for the concept. Once I had the basics down, I designed the Habit Card logo in Figma and moved on to designing the home screen, including the card.

The next day, I jumped straight into development. I chose to build Habit Card using native Kotlin instead of cross-platform tools. I wanted my app to feel natural and intuitive, deeply integrated with the platform, ensuring a smooth and refined experience for everyday use. Plus, this helped me keep the app size under 4MB.

One of the biggest challenges was building complex widgets since Android widgets don’t support regular UI components.

I documented my daily progress on X (@jithin_jude) if you're curious to see the journey!

I’ve tried many habit trackers to manage my daily routines, but none completely satisfied my requirements. I wanted a tracker that combined a GitHub-style contribution graph with the ability to mark habits as completed directly from notifications and a home screen widget for seamless tracking.

Although some trackers with GitHub-inspired designs exist, they lack the seamless integration with notifications and widgets that I envisioned. So I build one for me: Habit Card.