I am okay with any of them. They all sound great. Maybe except the part where you can only buy reserves instead of earning them.

Give people options. Let them have the ability to earn reserves.

Any worries about making it complicated just use a simple projection calculator.

Give them a calendar and let them pick a day to stop doing stuff. Then show them how long they can go without doing stuff until they lose streak.

Have this feature regardless the underlying calculation, then is fine.

Don't make the users think.

Also follow stackoverflow way of showing them based on their streaks they are top x%. Rather than showing a pure linear rank by raw streak.

This gives people a chance to feel they can move up

See attached

but I'd love to hear your ideas

So I'm in another community that's very well-read.

One of them pointed me to the concepts of superordinate goals vs intermediate goals vs subordinate goals www.frontiersin.org/articles/…

and also pointed me to this paper which is about pairing goals with emergency reserves. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/…

I have a ahem copy from ahem questionable source. You can try to find it on your own quite easily :D

Basically to summarize the second paper,

goals with emergency reserves (7 days with 2 emergency skip days) works better than hard goals (exercise 7 days) and easy goals (5 days)

This is true when there's a superordinate goal present and that the goals are related to. Without superordinate goal's presence, preference becomes easy > with emergency reserves > hard

I don't really have time to try to build a product that reflects this research but in essence,

let people log a superordinate goal (a goal that's broad and close to reflect their ideal self). then the todos tracked in streaks must be related to that superordinate goal somehow.

Then give people emergency reserves somehow. Perhaps they earn 1 emergency day for every 3 days streak. The emergency day will expire if unused for more than 3 months or 13 weeks.

Also track weekly streaks. A week streak is when all 7 days of that week log a todo or don't run out of unused emergency day. Use the calendar week of the year as the unit.

So also every 3 week streaks, the user gets 1 free week emergency

Week emergencies expire if un-used for more than 3 quarters or 39 weeks.

Always expire emergency days first before expiring week emergencies. Always expire the emergency reserves that are the oldest if still valid.

That way, you can imagine people auto fall sick or go vacation, the emergency reserves kick in.

The streaks mechanism as it is right now, unwittingly, promote hustle culture or promote workarounds like mine.

They are not natural.

Of course, as you said, can just let them expire :D

must buy helmet!

oh thanks for this!

Thank you for this. How to choose the 3 colors? the 60-30-10 is about proportion or what Craig says background-typography-accents, but even Craig didn't really say how to choose the 3 colors.

Thank you Spencer

So what do you use if not webpack?

Context added cause not sure how to add image on question

If I can go back in time I will say to my previous self

“success is a multi variate function”

If under different circumstances eg i have enough free time under no work pressures will find django and react still too much?

Will a different person with my exact circumstances come to same conclusions?

I have to be intellectually honest

Not necessarily

Out of the same honesty value was it too much for me?

Yes and for the foreseeable future as well

For what I want to accomplish do I absolutely need react? No

Hence my conclusion is highly personal to my unique circumstances and my own innate capacity

Different people may reach different conclusions.

I make no sweeping statements about django or react in and of itself.

My comment only covers the interaction of my experience with those domains plus my circumstances

I can tell you I spent a lot of money trying to be good at react close to 1500 dollars over a few years

I really tried

Welcome 🙏

There is no “should”

Personally I thought be better for me if i learn how to do headless ie split into django backend and then react frontend.

I did kinda do that for that client project I told you from earlier.

Looking back I will say it’s a mistake.

In order to master react I needed time I don’t have.

Now my frontend is horribly outdated and I have no time to properly improve it

Ultimately my goal is same as you : build a product like a SaaS and run it as owner

If u need nice Ajax effects u can always try htmx which is good enough

Now I’m trying to slowly transition away from react to htmx.

I now agree with the philosophy of run less software by intercom. Google that article read it then hopefully you understand. I regret not knowing this earlier but like I said nothing is truly wasted. Just a matter of going shorter route or the longer route.