Show HN: Goalie – A habit tracker

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=willoughby.com.goalie

by amozoss • 11 years ago

38 34 11 years ago

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tonystubblebine2• 11 years ago

I love it, especially showing the graphs on the dashboard.

lcswi• 11 years ago

Nice, reminds me of Tap Log. I'll give it a try.

Your address seems fake.

It says I can pay to make it adfree, but I was not prompted about a network permission? Local ads sound like a great idea that keeps your users' privacy. I don't see any though.

amozoss10• 11 years ago

I made it ad-free until after 3 goals. Then it'll show ads (just trying something different).

darkstar9993• 11 years ago

I don't think apps need network permission for displaying Google ads.

colinhowe• 11 years ago

Like it. I'd love to see a way to set a weekly allowance. E.g. I set "eat junk food" at 0, but really, I want to say I can do it once per week as a treat ;)

amozoss10• 11 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! I'm hoping to add occurrence to goals soon :)

marcbernstein2• 11 years ago

Looks great, will be checking this out. One piece of constructive criticism from the preview images is that the title font sizes are a bit large and that the different font faces are a little distracting.

Congrats for releasing your app, and kudos for sharing with us here!

amozoss10• 11 years ago

Thanks for mentioning the fonts. I try my best, but I'm not that great at designing. I'll revisit the fonts for my next update

marcbernstein2• 11 years ago

Design is definitely not my strong point either :) Google's design pages[1] have been a big help to me, they call out specific things to do and not to do with Material design. I think they put it together in a way that can help engineers out.

[1] https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/typography.html#typ...

superplussed• 11 years ago

The app looks really useful and props on getting it out there. Another design related suggestion (especially for an app that features color so prominently) is to find a good color palette at a site like http://www.colourlovers.com/ and stick with that. No one should be picking their own colors in 2015 :)

de_dave• 11 years ago

Any chance of a widget? Currently using "Day Counter" to track days since last X, but it doesn't have any concept of streaks or goals.

amozoss10• 11 years ago

I wasn't planning on it for the 1.0 push, but maybe I'll stick it in as a paid feature.

banmic99• 11 years ago

This app changed my life. I have found a new sense of focus, and it has even improved my marriage!

amozoss10• 11 years ago

That was fast.

trendroid• 11 years ago

You do realize that we can see when the app was published on PlayStore(initial release on June 9th). Unless your life and marriage were changed within couple of hours of using it.... Also, welcome to HN.

chefkoch• 11 years ago

And it also put your kids through college?

ivan_ah• 11 years ago

I found the UI quite nice, but that after adding a fourth goal ads started showing up in the bottom ... which ruins the whole experience for me.

amozoss10• 11 years ago

Since its my first app on android, I'm still figuring out exactly how I want to limit things. I'm open to feedback.

ams6110• 11 years ago

I'm not really familiar with Goole Play but I assume it's not too hard to offer a paid version that's ad-free?

fredkingham• 11 years ago

I would have been willing to pay an upfront fee, but in app purchases is a massive turn off

darkstar9993• 11 years ago

Why? It's actually much easier to try it for free and pay the in-app purchase if you like it. Otherwise you have to go back to the play store and find the paid version.

ramses0• 11 years ago

Coach.me is similar for iOS.

tonystubblebine2• 11 years ago

And web and Android. Goalie looks nice though. (but also, thanks for the Coach.me mention)

darkstar9993• 11 years ago

Constructive criticism - I wasn't sure what the swiping introduction was for. I think you could explain it a little better.

darklajid2• 11 years ago

Installed it, will give it a try. And I appreciate the '3 goals try for free' mode for now.

Exporting the data seems to generate somewhat readable json. Nice and simple.

1) Can I import that again, somehow?

2) Will you try to make sure that this json import/export format will be understood in versions 4 month from now?

amozoss10• 11 years ago

1) Yes, eventually. 2) Yes, any json exported using the app will be understood in future versions.

darklajid2• 11 years ago

If you happen to follow threads here:

Notifications/reminders are great. They'd be even more great if they'd disappear after me adding to a goal.

Think: 'Remind me at 9 to have breakfast'. Eat. Open Goalie. Swipe right. Browse HN. :)

10:00 - still seeing a reminder for breakfast that won't go away without dismissing it manually.

jk5_• 11 years ago

Sweet! I had the same idea recently based only on incremental values. I'm trying to quit smoking but I still cheat from time to time (I know, this is bad.) and I wanted to be able to track my progress.

I'll give it a try for sure.

tedmiston• 11 years ago

I really like this idea. I've been looking for something similar on iOS. I'm currently going back and forth between two solutions for daily + weekly goal tracking: (1) Coach.me (formerly Lift), which works well but has a bit different focus, and doesn't provide a ton of visualization; and (2) simple tasks on Google Calendars, which is okay on desktop, and not great on mobile, and not really suitable for goal tracking overall (understandably).

Something fully contained like Goalie but for iOS would be awesome.

vincentbarr• 11 years ago

Anything comparable out there for iOS?

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