The idea

I started tracking my habits after reading Atomic Habits but found existing apps to be very visually demotivating. Also, they are apps that have to be downloaded which was a big barrier to me (how 2015!, at least for productivity apps...) I know, UI/UX is NOT a product. But in the case of building a habit which is likened to a psychological war, visual cues are extremely important.

So I hacked together an excel habit tracker that uses data validation to colour code it for visual motivation and it kinda worked! Over time though, as I was tracking more and more habits, keying in multiple habits that I was tracking was getting really tedious. And the more entries I made, the uglier they looked. The uglier they looked and the more tedious they became, the worst my motivation got.

Back when I was learning code, I've always been motivated by Github's contribution calendar. I always wanted to do something similar on my excel tracker but it super tedious! I could do it with VBA, but I didn't know the language. Since I now knew how to code websites, I decided to create a web app. 1 week later, lifeofdiscipline.com was born!