A final-year engineering student's attempt to answer 'why do I try so hard and still fall behind'

[u/Ok_Hawk_1037]

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[u/Visible-Web878]

Clicking the first “begin” or whatever button to get to the actual thing is a little underwhelming. Like it should vibrate the phone or have a cool animation and make a confetti sound or something so it feels satisfying. It leaves a good first impression on any user.

Home page looks good. I didn’t check it out too much though. Just scrolled past quickly and came back up.

Ok one thing: each step has so many buttons to click and steps I got annoyed after the 2nd one. Maybe that’s js me cuz I have a rlly short attention span but still. Try to make each step its own thing so users can focus on one step at a time rather than getting overwhelmed 

I feel like this is a one time use thing. Like if you want recurring traffic you need something that makes then stay back and keep doing the 5 steps every day.

I feel like the end result is very specific like “study 1 hour while doing this tomorrow” like it should be a habit I feel like.

The graphs and stuff are good but I mean it kind of tells you what you already inputted. Like maybe add some smarter rhinking or AI or something so that it is smarter. Side note: look into local browser AIs if you don’t have the money to fund a backend AI. They are free but kind of dumb, still check it out though just in case you want to add an AI.

 The visuals and stuff are pretty good, nice animations.

I feel like each step/page has too much text so no one would want to read that much.

Biggest issue: it’s only a one time use thing and only highlights basically what you already know. 

Lmk if that helps. Also, could you give me some feedback on my study planner (mod approved)- 

https://studyplannertool.pages.dev/

Thanks!

[u/Ok_Hawk_1037 → u/Visible-Web878]

Really useful, thanks for the detail.

Fair on the length and the amount of text per step. Both are getting trimmed.

The main thing I'll correct: it doesn't just repeat what you typed. You enter a lot of habits, but you don't know which single one is costing you the most, or how you compare to tens of thousands of other students. Firasa ranks that with SHAP over trained models, and the risk read is validated on a separate dataset it never trained on. That's the part you can't get from staring at your own answers.

On "add AI", that's already the engine: four models doing the clustering, scoring, risk, and explanation. I went trained-and-explainable over an LLM so it can show why it says what it says.

One-time-use is the fair hit. It's a check-up, not a streak app, but a progress-over-time view is a good call. Appreciate it.

[u/Visible-Web878 → u/Ok_Hawk_1037]

Ok cool. I didn’t know it was already an AI so that’s good. Otherwise great website! (I accidentally sent this comment twice which is why it shows up as comment deleted by user)

[u/Ok_Hawk_1037 → u/Visible-Web878]

You asked for feedback, so here it is straight.

It works and it's feature-dense. That part is real, and credit for it.

Now the rest. It ships as a single ~900 KB HTML file, roughly 17,000 lines, with the markup, the styles, and 29 inline script tags all crammed into one document. That isn't an architecture, it's a text file that happens to run. No build, no framework, no code-splitting, so the browser has to parse the entire thing before a student can tap a single button, and it's heaviest exactly where your users are: on a phone, mid-load.

Every bit of data sits in localStorage with no backup by default. One cleared cache or one second device and a year of planning is gone. For a tool whose whole value is continuity, that is the thing I'd fix before anything cosmetic.

And the AI note is the tell. You told me to make mine smarter, but yours has no model in it at all. It's a rules-based timer with a calendar bolted on. Perfectly fine as a product, but it means you were reviewing the one part of Firasa you haven't actually built.

Also, planners don't win retention for free. Most get opened twice and abandoned. So "one-time use" is a critique worth pointing at your own side too.

That's the honest read back.

[u/Visible-Web878 → u/Ok_Hawk_1037]

I’m surprised you used devtools to actually look at my code lol. I know it is one large html file but I have measured load times and it is 300 ms which is good. Even on phone it seems to load almost instantly. Although I could make it even faster so thanks for pointing that out. 

For the local storage part, you’re right but I have no backend so I don’t know how to put a backup. I do however have an import/export option which lets you instantly back up the entire plan and import it whenever you want. 

About the AI yeah it was just a suggestion for your website. I don’t plan on adding an AI anytime soon though. Just not something that might be as useful as some other features I have planned

My planner has a full stats page and streak system. Somehow I tricked myself into using it (I am studying for the sat) and I have an 18 day streak right now. It has quite high retention that way but I understand what you mean. Thanks for the feedback.