I'm new here and I like the hardcore approach, it's like trying to go to workout every day and counting your best streaks trying to get a better one in the next attempt.

One thing about the alternative, is the streaks rank would become waaay more difficult for beginners as old members won't reset when failed.

Maybe you can reset streak after 2 days without todos completed or also have a shipping consistency metric.

I'm in Indie Hackers BR Telegram group, and some tech related groups, mostly python local communities. Big telegram groups tend to be just spam, so I dropped from all those.