I think it has to start and/or stay very specific and I will point to existing communities and products to explain why.
750words.com - for writing 3 pages a day every day. community of writers. note this is writing for writing's sake, not necessarily to publish. I use this
goodreads and alternatives - the goodreads alternatives often have apps that track your daily reading progress. I have not been able to make it stick.
Apple Activity Rings - specific to exercise and movement but a huge audience with subgroups and such. But the tracking of the what is still specific (enough, additional examples of more specific communities within that)
Strava - I believed started as a way to track bike rides but they do running now as well. I dont think they were ever a habit tracker per se but similar vibes
AllTrails - similar to Strava but focused on hikes. Again, not necessarily a habit tracker
Challenge (or advantage) with many of these is that they can be automatically reported and for those that are not (like wip), they are natural to where the target user lives (ie indiehackers -> twitter -> wip is like twitter)
Great point. I did think about limiting it to one very specific sub-category but decided it's not the reason I built this.
So far I've only had one user ask for automatic tracking (github integration) but one main benefit of my app is that it directs your attention to who you want to become once per day. With automatic tracking you lose that and you lose the drive to build your habit.
I think it has to start and/or stay very specific and I will point to existing communities and products to explain why.
750words.com - for writing 3 pages a day every day. community of writers. note this is writing for writing's sake, not necessarily to publish. I use this
goodreads and alternatives - the goodreads alternatives often have apps that track your daily reading progress. I have not been able to make it stick.
Apple Activity Rings - specific to exercise and movement but a huge audience with subgroups and such. But the tracking of the what is still specific (enough, additional examples of more specific communities within that)
Strava - I believed started as a way to track bike rides but they do running now as well. I dont think they were ever a habit tracker per se but similar vibes
AllTrails - similar to Strava but focused on hikes. Again, not necessarily a habit tracker
Challenge (or advantage) with many of these is that they can be automatically reported and for those that are not (like wip), they are natural to where the target user lives (ie indiehackers -> twitter -> wip is like twitter)
Great point. I did think about limiting it to one very specific sub-category but decided it's not the reason I built this.
So far I've only had one user ask for automatic tracking (github integration) but one main benefit of my app is that it directs your attention to who you want to become once per day. With automatic tracking you lose that and you lose the drive to build your habit.