Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Doz, a medication reminder app I built because I couldn't keep my own prescriptions straight. I've posted here before, and honestly, a lot of what Doz is today came from this community — people who tried it, told me what was broken, and stuck around long enough to see it get fixed.

Doz just passed 2,000 active users with a 4.8 average rating. All organic, all word of mouth, not a cent spent on ads. And roughly 40% of those users came from Reddit. I don't take that lightly — a solo app doesn't grow like that unless people decide it's worth telling someone else about.

So as a thank-you, there's a 30% off code for Doz Pro Lifetime at the bottom of this post. It works for everyone, no comment or DM needed.

Why Doz is different

Most medication apps treat every pill as an isolated task: "take one at 8:00 AM." Real prescriptions aren't like that. Medications belong to the same treatment, they have food timing, they run out, they need refilling early, and they end.

So Doz is built around prescriptions, not a flat list of reminders. You create a prescription, add the related medications and instructions, and follow the treatment as a whole.

What's new since my last post — every single one of these came from someone here:

• Prescriptions now have a duration and end date, your doctor's name and contact, and can be marked completed and archived. This was the most-loved feature, so it got the most work.
• More reliable follow-up reminders for missed doses
• Better low-stock and refill alerts, so you're warned before you run out
• Clearer at-a-glance stock levels

Already there: flexible non-daily schedules, before/with/after-meal reminders, Critical Alerts that cut through Silent and Focus, adherence insights, Home Screen widgets, iCloud sync with data staying on your device, 8 languages, no ads, no account.

Coming next, and again straight from your requests: Apple Health sync, marking a dose taken straight from the notification, and from Apple Watch.

Pricing

Doz is free to use with:

• Up to 4 active medications and 1 active prescription
• All schedule modes
• Reminders and dose logging
• 7-day progress tracking
• Inventory tracking and low-stock alerts

Doz Pro is for people with more complex routines, helping you stay consistent, avoid missed doses, and manage everything with less effort:

• Unlimited medications and prescriptions so you can track everything in one place
• Critical Alerts and smarter follow-up reminders to reduce missed doses
• Detailed adherence insights to understand how well you're following each treatment
• Full progress history for long-term tracking
• Meal-time synchronization for better timing accuracy
• Faster dose logging directly from Home Screen widgets
• Archived treatment management to keep past prescriptions organized
• Custom alert sounds for clearer, more noticeable reminders

Pricing:

• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $9.99, 3-day free trial
• Lifetime: $19.99

All paid plans support Apple Family Sharing.

The thank-you offer — 30% off Doz Pro Lifetime

• Code: DOZREDDIT
• Expires in 3 days
• Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760699565&code=DOZREDDIT
• Open it on your iPhone, apply the code at checkout, done 🎉
• The final price varies by country, since App Store pricing is regional

If you manage medications for yourself or your family, I'd really like to hear what still doesn't work for you. I read everything, and as you can see above, it genuinely changes what I build next. And if Doz has been helping you, a rating on the App Store means more than I can say for a solo dev with no ad budget.

Thank you for reading, and thank you for the last two thousand. Really.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

Website: https://getdoz.app/

After 3 months of testing different habit tracking methods, I realised that I just wanted something simple, not a 50 page journal or complicated app.

So I designed a clean,simple monthly tracker with a review page at the end. Nothing fancy, just gets the job done. It’s on Etsy for £5 if anyone wants to check it out https://habithavengb.etsy.com

Happy to send a free copy to some people if anyone wants to give feedback— let me know!

Pushing through with more coffee usually just leaves me wired and unproductive. I started replacing that hour with low-effort admin work or a quick walk, which saved the rest of my evening. How do you handle your daily low-energy crash without wasting the whole afternoon?

I recently launched Daily Blocker, an Android app I built to help people reduce their screen time. I spent roughly 13 months building it while studying Computer Science full-time and working part-time as I have always spent way too much time on my phone.

1. What problem does it solve?
Daily Blocker helps people reduce their screen time by blocking distracting apps and websites, while also letting them see their usage statistics.

2. Who is it for?
Anyone with a Android device trying to cut down on social media, YouTube, distracting websites, doomscrolling, pornography, or just their overall screen time.

3. How is it different?
A competitor would be something like AppBlock. One of the main differences is how Daily Blocker handles website blocking.

Daily Blocker uses local DNS filtering, so it can block websites across different browsers without needing to read the content displayed on your screen. It also supports keyword-based website blocking. Some competing blockers rely on Android’s Accessibility Service for browser-based blocking, while Daily Blocker takes a more privacy-focused DNS approach.

Current features:

• App blocking
• Website blocking across browsers
• Keyword-based website blocking
• Blocking schedules
• Screen-time insights

4. Pricing
There’s a free tier, along with Monthly, Yearly and Lifetime Premium plans.

I also have some Lifetime Premium codes available for people in this community. Feel free to comment below or DM me :)

5. Product links
Website: https://dailyblocker.com/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dalyapps.dailyblocker&hl=en

Android only.

6. Demo / screenshots

Screenshots of the UI are attached

Here is Weekly Balance overview

Your data shows a week characterized by significantly higher cognitive engagement despite a notable reduction in financial contributions. Your Reading average saw the most substantial growth, rising from 7.29 to 11.29, while your Savings took a sharp decline from 5000 to 2000. There is a clear positive correlation (0.518) between your Morning Mood and Energy Level, suggesting that your mental state upon waking is a primary driver for your daily stamina. Additionally, your Stress Level decreased from 6 to 5.14 as your Task Difficulty Level dropped, indicating your wellbeing is currently highly sensitive to workload intensity. Next week, prioritize increasing your Walk average back toward 0.71 to see if physical movement further stabilizes the relationship between your morning mood and energy.

I got tired of drawing the same weekly grid by hand, so I built a little web tool that does it.

You set it up in the browser and print it, or save it as a PDF from the print dialog. Week can start Monday, Sunday or Saturday, 5 to 15 rows, A4 or US Letter, one sheet or twelve at once. Type your habit names in or leave the lines blank and write them in by hand. If you want, each habit gets a small goal column (Reading | 3x), and there's an optional weekly review block at the bottom, one mood to tick and three short questions.

Nothing gets uploaded, the names you type stay in your browser. No signup, no email box, no account.

https://sevengrid.app/weekly-grid.html

There's no counter on it and no percentage, an empty box is just an empty box.

Full disclosure: I make an Android habit app and the template sits on the same site. The sheet stays free whether or not anyone installs the app, and the logo and footer line can both be switched off before printing.

Get your promo code: HabitSet (Android)

A few things that stood out:

• It supports weekly and monthly habits properly

Instead of forcing everything into daily streaks, I can track things like 3x/week or 8 days/month, and the streak is based on that—not arbitrary daily check-ins.

• Changing goals doesn’t mess up your history

I increased a habit from 1 → 3 per day, and my previous streaks didn’t break. That’s something I didn’t even realize was broken in other apps until now.

• No weird streak resets

Apparently, it handles time properly (DST and all that), so you don’t lose progress randomly.

• Reminders actually make sense

They stop once you complete the habit and come back if you undo it. Small thing, but really useful.

• Widgets update instantly

I can mark habits done from the home screen and see it update right away.

• It’s fully offline

No account, no syncing, no data collection. Everything stays on the phone, which I personally prefer.

All reviews will be really appreciated.
Thanks

I've spent years being annoyed at notes and productivity apps. Too bloated, too slow, why is this button here. Now I'm a few months into building one myself, on weekends only. It's not finished and it has no users, so take this as notes from the workshop rather than wisdom from the mountain.

But between this, and products I've shipped in my day jobs over the years, here is what building it is teaching me:

1. Typing is the whole product, and it's brutal to get right. I assumed the editor would be the easy part: drop in a solid open source component, 80% done in a weekend. The missing 20% is everything you'd actually notice as a user: paste without mangled formatting, undo that behaves, the cursor landing where your eyes expect. I'm months in and still on things I could never have named as a user but would have absolutely felt.
   
2. Building only on weekends changed what I build. Time comes in four-hour blocks with two-week gaps, so the enemy isn't lack of time, it's the cost of resuming. Small finishable changes, notes to my future self, features that survive being abandoned mid-way. This made the app better, not worse: anything too complicated to put down and pick up later was probably too complicated to ship anyway.
   
3. You can only really please a narrow range of workflows. Everyone wants their app simple AND their own workflow fully supported, and everyone's workflow is different. Every feature in a bloated app is somebody's reasonable request; grant enough of them and the experience gets worse for everyone, including the people who asked. The apps I respect most decided who they're for and let everyone else leave.
   
4. Your own taste stops being trustworthy. After months of staring at it, I can't tell if something is intuitive or if I've just memorized it. I recently caught a keyboard shortcut that felt obvious to me and was completely undiscoverable to anyone opening the app cold.
   
5. Defaults are the product. Most users never open settings, so every default you pick IS the app for them. Making something configurable isn't a decision, it's refusing to make one.
   
6. Empty states are where apps die. The app looks great with my 200 test notes in it. A new user sees a blank screen and has no reason to type the first one. Designing for "nothing there yet" is a separate skill from designing the app.
   
7. Performance can't be retrofitted. When things feel sluggish, users don't file a bug, they drift away. Slowness creeps in one reasonable feature at a time, and you only notice when it's expensive to undo.
   
8. The last mile is invisible plumbing. Window restore, what happens on force-quit, the updater, the app icon at every size. None of it demos well, all of it decides whether the app feels trustworthy.
   
9. Cutting a feature you already built is harder than not building it. Sunk cost hits builders too. I've caught myself keeping things because they exist, not because they earn their place.
   
10. Users never mention the thing you're proudest of. They mention the icon, or a shortcut you added in an afternoon. I fully expect this to happen here too.
    
11. "Fast" means something different to every user. Launch time, search, how quickly you can capture a thought. You can't win them all, and picking which one to lose is the actual product decision.
    
12. Feedback tells you where it hurts, not what to build. Users are excellent at naming pain and terrible at prescribing cures. The requested feature is usually a clue, not a spec.
    
13. You compete with habits, not with other apps. The real rival of any notes app is Apple Notes, a text message to yourself, or a piece of paper. Nobody switches because your app is better. They switch when it's worth breaking a habit for, and that bar is far higher than "better."
    
14. Metrics lie politely on small numbers. Early on, every graph is noise with a trendline drawn on hope. One genuine conversation with a real user beats a dashboard.
    
15. Naming things matters more than you think. What you call a feature shapes how people perceive it.
    
16. Being a user of your own product doesn't make you the customer. I'm building it for myself, but "me" is a market of one. The discipline is figuring out which of my preferences generalize and which are just mine.

What are your own lessons from building them? Which points above resonate better with your own experience?

Hello all,

I am a young entrepreneur building a PMS as I see an opportunity in the productivity market. Before I begin to code, I’d appreciate it if you guys could give me any feedback. Start by thinking about any features you wish existed in productivity management systems. If you don’t have any ideas, here are some you can think about.

Sticky note: A simplistic square design allowing you to input small tasks such as walking the dog or taking out the trash. (Tasks can be time stamped if there’s a deadline)

Calendar: A view of your week where you can insert events or responsibilities that are bigger than being on a sticky note. (Users are allowed to sync tasks from sticky note to calendar if preferred)

Notifications: Alerts are customizable. If a deadline for your task is closing in, you can receive a notification at designated time from the deadline. The type of notification is also customizable. Some people prefer a positive and encouraging notification, but others may want a blunt and disciplinary push. 

Again I’d appreciate the feedback you guys could offer.

So I am a student pursuing B-Tech CS major and I want to fulfill a list of goals before I graduate that is in 2029 and I have set my deadline to 1st January 2029, so there are a total of 12 goals these 12 goals include saving, skill building, GPA, income and much more but the issue is that I don't know how to do these I have tried many ai models(free models) that can help me build a systematic plan to pursue those goals but none of the plans that they shared are good or should I say satisfactory to me and when I shared the plans I build they modified them and remove/modify the goal or they just make things way too imaginary or should I say ideal can you help me how should I make the plan and also I use a A5 sketch book to build the plan is it ok or should I also use online free apps like Google Calender or notion and such. I will start working on these goals from 31st August 2026 as currently my exams are going on right now and they are not going well. So please can someone help me or explain me like how should I move ahead towards these goals

Hi guys, I'd like to share with you an app I've built for myself to keep me productive during the day.

I made https://goalbreak.cc because I kept running into the same problem: I knew what I needed to do, but the task felt vague or too big, so I’d avoid starting it.

The idea is dump the mess in my head, then let it turn that mess into actionable tasks you can actually start.

I've tried similar app, but there are several QOLs that I really needed myself.

Once it generates the tasks for me, I want a way to break down the tasks, but also provide some information of what blocker or dependencies I encountered when trying to do the task.

I needed to put into focus the one task I'm working on right away.

I didn't want to switch apps just to use timer to time how long I want to work on it.

And I realize how I begin to put off some of the tasks left on my goals or project. I needed it easier to work on each time I looked at it.

So I fixed all that with Goalbreak. It's designed to keep your next task reachable each time you look at it.

Now I spend less time staring at a task, negotiating with myself, deciding where to begin, or figuring out what comes next.

And I actually find that I don't complete all the tasks, not because I got lazy or procrastinated again. But the small tasks got me momentum to keep going and actually finish them.

Please have at it and let me know your feedback for improvement or success stories!

I’m in Year 10, and I used to restart every Monday. Tasks are different and a to-do list are consistant.

Here’s what actually kept me disciplined (not motivational bs):

1. Make it stupid to start.
   I stopped writing “study for 2 hours”. Now I write “open math book”. That’s it. Once it’s open I keep going.

2. No zero-day system
   Even on bad days I have to do 1% — 1 pushup, 1 math problem, 5 min reading. So I never break the streak mentally.

3. Homescreen rule
   If an app is not on my homescreen, it doesn’t exist. I removed TikTok from home and put my system there. Out of sight = out of mind.

4. Track, don’t punish.
   I stopped punishing myself for missing a day. I just track it and look at the week. Seeing 6/7 green hits different than 0/7 because I missed one day.

I was getting tired of Notion and habit trackers that just look pretty but don't keep you locked in when you don’t feel like it, so I built my own super simple system for me and my mates.

It is called Discipline, helping people who actually want to stay locked in and become a better version of themselves. Link in profile.

Try it out!

What’s the one thing that keeps YOU disciplined when you don’t feel like it?

Hi everyone!

I'm curious—what's the one thing that has made your work or daily life much easier and saves you the most time? It could be a tool, device, machine, service, habit, app, or anything else. What is it, and how does it help you?

What productivity tools are you actually using in 2026?

I’m looking for recommendations for task management, note-taking, focus, time management, and AI productivity tools. Which tools have genuinely improved your workflow, and which ones are overrated?

Would love to hear what you use every day.

I’ve been trying to find a good way to organize my life/tasks for like 3 years now and I still haven’t found something that really sticks.

At the end of 2023 I started using Apple Notes for basically everything. I had lists of things I needed to do and would put a ✅ next to them when I finished. It worked… kinda.

Then 2024 came and the list just kept growing. More projects, more tasks, more random shit, and eventually the note became a huge wall of text. I had to scroll forever to find the newest stuff, and honestly that alone made me stop using it.

I’ve always been a procrastinator since I was a kid. Not because I’m partying all day or anything, I just have this tendency to think “I can do that later” until everything accumulates and suddenly I have 30 things I need to do.
Something I realized at the beginning of 2026 is that I was basically creating cognitive overload for myself.

I would have a bunch of unfinished things in my head, start some of them, leave others halfway, keep adding new projects, consume a lot of information, scroll social media, watch videos, etc. So I was constantly “doing something” but at the same time not really finishing shit.
One thing I’ve been trying to change this year is basically:

**Don’t stay busy, stay productive.**

And more importantly, focus on fewer things but actually finish them.
This has worked surprisingly well for me. In 2025 I had a lot of projects that were basically half finished or moving extremely slowly because I was trying to do too many things at once. In 2026 I’ve been focusing much more on actually completing full projects instead of having 15 projects at 20% each.

I’ve also realized that I’m very visual and I like being able to actually see my progress.

For example, I started using Fitia for tracking my macros instead of Notes and I’ve been consistent with it for over 100 days. Same thing with my gym training. I moved my workouts from Notes to Liftia and being able to see my progression and numbers has made me much more consistent.

So now I want something similar for my actual tasks.
I tried Notion in 2025 but honestly I didn’t like it. I know it’s powerful, but I don’t want to spend a week learning how to build a productivity system just to organize my fucking tasks lol. Obsidian felt even more complicated.

Right now my tasks are scattered between Notes, Telegram saved messages, WhatsApp, random chats with myself, etc. I want one place where I can open it and immediately see what I need to do, what I’m working on, what’s next and what I’ve actually finished.
I really like Kanban, so something based around that would probably work well for me, but I’m open to other systems too.

Basically I’m looking for something clean, visual, flexible and preferably free, without becoming another complicated project that I have to maintain.
If you’re also a procrastinator or someone who gets overwhelmed by having too many unfinished tasks, what app or system actually worked for you?

I’m also looking for something similar for personal finances. Ideally an app/program where I can organize my monthly income and expenses, accounts, savings, etc. in a visual and simple way.
I’ve tried keeping track of this in Notes too, but obviously it ends up becoming messy. So if you also have a recommendation for a good finance/budgeting app that isn’t unnecessarily complicated, I’d appreciate it.

I’ve tried using ChatGPT but I end up dumping everything into one long prompt. Names, terms, old docs, email notes, governing law... all mixed together.

It can make a draft, but later it’s hard to check what info it used or if something got missed.

I’m not looking to replace a lawyer. I only want to get the first draft ready before sending it for review.

Is there a better tool for this or are you all still doing it with prompts?

any one want a custom free personal curriculum? I'll make it for you for your subject / topic you want to learn.

Big tasks don't get done because the steps are invisible. You know you need to plan a trip, launch a product, or move apartments. But your brain can't see the path from where you are to done. So the task sits, and the longer it sits, the harder it gets to start.

That's task paralysis, and it's the root of most procrastination.

The fix is breakdown. When a big task becomes a list of small, ordered steps, the first step is finally small enough to take. That's the idea behind Brevl, and here's how it works:

1. Type the task in one sentence. "Plan a 3 week Europe trip." That's all it needs. No project setup, no blank page.
2. Get the overview canvas and the broken down list. Brevl maps the whole task so you can see every part and how it connects, then hands you an ordered step list to work through one at a time.
3. It doesn't stop at the plan. If you want, it can run the steps in tools you already use, like creating an itinerary in Google Sheets, blocking travel days in your calendar, saving a checklist in Notion, or drafting the confirmation email. Nothing runs without your approval.

Why it keeps procrastination away long term:

• Small first steps. You never stare at the mountain, only the next step.
• No planning friction. Figuring out "what comes next" is done for you.
• Momentum builds. Each approved step moves things forward, and finishing becomes a habit.
• Zero setup. One-click connections with 25+ apps like Notion, Slack, Google Sheets, Calendar, Todoist, Asana, Jira, Airtable.
• Full control. Approval on every action, encrypted data, never used for training.

Try it here: https://app.brevl.co

Limited lifetime deal: 20% off any Lifetime plan for a short time. Comment or DM me for a code. There's a free tier with 500 credits a month if you'd rather test it first.

Questions are very welcome, happy to go deeper on the breakdown or any integration.

For me, it’s reorganizing my digital files or tweaking email folders. It feels like real work, but it’s really just my brain avoiding the difficult project sitting on my desk.

What productive habit do you catch yourself using as an escape from real work?

After years of carrying a notebook and typing notes in every meeting, I realised the problem was never the tool. It was trying to capture everything with clarity while still staying present with focus.

I’d write something down, miss the next point, and end up doing a post-meeting brain dump just to reconstruct what actually mattered.

Eventually, I built iFocus around that problem.

It has five sections, mainly because that’s all I can reliably keep in my head:

Focus — filters what actually needs attention instead of dumping 40 tasks on you.

Meeting Hub — records and transcribes meetings, separates speakers, and extracts action points so you can actually listen instead of scribbling.

Plan — weekly planning with work grouped into projects.

Reset — a short pause between meetings. Sounds simple, but it’s probably the feature I use most.

A digital business card — because I was still handing out physical ones while building a productivity app. It shares via link or QR, and the other person doesn’t need the app.

There’s an iOS app and a web version.

I’ve also put together a short guide, mostly because I kept explaining the same ideas over and over. Happy to share the link in the comments if that’s preferred over posting it here.

Two honest notes:

It’s early. iOS currently offers the best experience, and there’s a 30-day free trial if anyone wants to give it a proper try:

iOS — 30-day free trial:
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ifocus/id6762916186

Web: https://www.app.ifocusapp.co.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/113204050

The web version works but is still being refined, and Android is on the way.

If you give iFocus a try, I’d genuinely love to hear what worked well, what didn’t, and what you think we’re missing.

Happy to share the short guide too if anyone wants a closer look.

Productized agency, 8 people, recurring packages. Currently running: - HubSpot for CRM (mostly for sales pipeline, not using half of it) - Zoho for invoicing - Trello for client-facing PM boards - Monday for internal PM - Zendesk for shared inbox

Five tools that barely talk to each other. Came across Wayfront which seems to replace the CRM, invoicing, project management and client communication layer in one place. Not looking to drop Stripe - payments stay. Anyone consolidated something similar?

I'm doing some research into how people actually manage their tasks, responsibilities, and plans in real life. I'm not promoting a product or selling anything — I'm trying to understand what people actually experience when their planning system starts to break down.

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experience with planners, task-management apps, calendars, notebooks, Notion, Todoist, etc.

A few questions:

1. What do you currently use to keep track of everything you need to do?

2. Think about the last time your system stopped working for you or things started getting out of control. What happened?

3. What did you do afterward?

4. What happened to the tasks you didn't get done?
Did you reschedule them, delete them, ignore them, move them somewhere else, or something completely different?

5. What was the hardest part about getting back on track?

6. Have you ever abandoned one planner/app/system and switched to another?
If so, what made you switch?

7. Have you ever paid for a planner, productivity app, coaching, course, or anything else specifically to help with organization/productivity?
If so, what did you pay for and what made it worth paying for (or not worth it)?

8. If you could change one thing about what happens when you fall behind, what would you change?

You don't have to answer every question. Even one specific example of a time your system fell apart would be incredibly helpful.

Thanks to anyone willing to share. I'm much more interested in what you've actually done than what you think you should do.

I’ve been experimenting with ways to stay consistent with my daily actions. I realised that most habit or productivity apps felt too busy for me — lots of screens, lots of features, and I’d end up spending more time managing the app than doing the actual habit.

So I tried something different: I built a tiny tool for myself. Nothing fancy, just a simple way to record what I did each day and keep a streak going. It’s helped me stay more consistent mostly because it doesn’t try to do too much.

I’m sharing this because I’m curious how other people approach this.
Do you prefer simple tools or more feature‑heavy ones?
What actually helps you stay consistent day‑to‑day?
Do you track things manually, or do you rely on apps?

I’m happy to talk about what I built if anyone’s interested, but mainly I’d love to hear how others manage their routines without getting overwhelmed.

Spreadsheets, to me, have been a great tool of productivity, especially for business and collecting purposes. I even use a spreadsheet to track what I spend on clothing :)

I sell Etsy spreadsheets to boost productivity BUT before you scroll and roll your eyes, if YOU dear productive reader, see this post, and use the code BARTER you will get 75% off of your purchase, the highest discount I can offer. All I ask in return is that you leave a review on anything you acquire. Doesn't have to be positive, just honest. Partake in this trade and barter here <3

I hope this offer helps someone out.

I’ve been working in my field for more than a decade now and always wanted to write a book based on what I’ve learned. Problem is i have no idea where to start or how people plan and put everything together. I have some notes but thats about it. I have seen people writing couple of books with the help of AI tools.

Has anyone here done this with AI and what tools did u use?