Perspective: ScreenTime
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Perspective: ScreenTime
Reduce your screen time and make progress towards goals
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Problem
Users struggle with unproductive screen time habits due to standard screen time trackers that lack focus on intentionality and purpose, leading to misaligned digital habits and unmet personal goals
Solution
A productivity app that aligns digital habits with true priorities through intentional tracking and goal-based screen time management, e.g., setting purpose-driven usage limits and reflecting on tech interactions
Customers
Remote workers, students, and digital professionals seeking to balance productivity and mental well-being, aged 18-45, who frequently use smartphones and desire structured tech usage
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Unique Features
Prioritizes goal-oriented screen time evaluation instead of mere usage limits, offering habit reflection prompts and priority-based activity categorization
User Comments
Helps break endless scrolling cycles
Finally links screen time to life goals
Less judgmental than traditional limit apps
Encourages mindful tech use
UI needs improvement but concept is solid
Traction
Launched 2 months ago, 1.6k+ Product Hunt upvotes
Featured in 12+ productivity newsletters
Basic free version + $4.99/month premium plan
Market Size
Digital wellbeing market projected to reach $12.16 billion by 2030 (Grand View Research, 2023)
Time Progress
Visualize Your Time in the Menu Bar
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Problem
Users manually track time without a centralized, visual overview, leading to inefficient time awareness and difficulty in maintaining productivity goals.
Solution
A macOS menu bar app that visualizes the progress of days, months, years, and custom periods in real-time, enabling users to monitor time metrics at a glance without disrupting workflows.
Customers
Freelancers, remote workers, and productivity-focused professionals using macOS who prioritize time management and minimalistic tools.
Unique Features
Persistent menu-bar integration for constant visibility, customizable time tracking (e.g., project deadlines), and minimalist design avoiding UI clutter.
User Comments
Simplifies time awareness effortlessly
Seamless integration with macOS
Helps combat procrastination
Lightweight and unobtrusive
Custom periods are a game-changer
Traction
Launched on ProductHunt in 2024, achieving 500+ upvotes and ranking in top 5 daily products; exact revenue/user metrics undisclosed.
Market Size
The global productivity apps market is projected to reach $102 billion by 2026, driven by remote work and time-management demands.
Goal Tracker - Track your Goals
Plan, Progress & Achieve Goals
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Problem
Users struggle to cultivate balance in their lives, set meaningful goals, and track their progress effectively. They often lack insights and consistency, which are vital to elevating their aspirations.
Solution
Goal Tracker is a dashboard tool that empowers users to plan, progress, and achieve their goals. With features for setting meaningful goals, tracking progress, habit tracking for consistency, and check-ins for insights, users can empower their journey towards achieving a balanced and goal-oriented lifestyle.
Customers
Individuals looking to improve their personal growth, productivity enthusiasts, people seeking to cultivate balance in their lives, and those aiming for consistent progress in their goals.
Unique Features
Empowers journey to balance, meaningful goal setting, progress tracking, habit tracking for consistency, and check-ins for insights.
User Comments
Not available
Traction
Not available
Market Size
Not available
Problem
Users struggle to keep track of their progress towards goals, leading to difficulties in monitoring various aspects like distance, money, time, weight, etc.
Solution
An app for iOS & macOS that aids in tracking progress towards goals. Users can monitor different metrics such as distance, money, time, weight, etc. The app provides history charts for recent trends.
Customers
Individuals looking to track and monitor their progress towards various goals, such as fitness enthusiasts, professionals working on personal projects, students managing study goals, or individuals tracking personal finances.
Unique Features
Offers a simple interface for goal tracking, provides visual history charts for tracking trends, supports tracking diverse metrics like distance, money, time, weight, etc.
User Comments
Easy-to-use app for goal tracking
Visual charts are helpful in monitoring progress
Great for keeping motivation high
Useful for tracking different kinds of goals
Simple and effective interface
Market Size
The global market for goal and progress tracking apps was valued at approximately $7.5 billion in 2020.
MoodShift: Mindful Screen Time
Replace Doomscrolling
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Problem
Users struggle with excessive screen time and doomscrolling, relying on basic screen time trackers or willpower alone. Ineffective in mindfully reducing screen time leads to procrastination and negative mental health impacts.
Solution
A mindfulness-based screen time control tool that helps users track usage, set mindful goals, and replace doomscrolling habits. Mindful interventions and habit transformation via guided breathing exercises, focus modes, and habit streaks.
Customers
Professionals, students, and digital wellness enthusiasts aged 18-45 seeking intentional device usage while balancing productivity and mental well-being.
Unique Features
Combines behavioral psychology with mindfulness techniques, offering contextual nudges instead of blunt app blockers. Unique 'Mindful Scroll Breaks' replace compulsive habits with intentional actions.
User Comments
Reduced my screen time by 40% in 2 weeks
First app that actually changed my scrolling habits
Guided breathing helps me reset focus
Simple but powerful streak system
Design feels calming, not punitive
Traction
Launched 3 months ago with 2,800+ Product Hunt upvotes, 15k+ active users. Founder has 4.2k Twitter followers. Bootstrapped with $12k MRR from freemium model.
Market Size
Global digital wellness market projected to reach $3.5 billion by 2025 (Grand View Research). 87% of smartphone users report compulsive scrolling habits (Pew Research).
Progress Tracker
Visualize the progression of time across different intervals
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Problem
Users manually track time progression using calendars or spreadsheets, which is time-consuming and lacks dynamic visualization, leading to decreased motivation and mindfulness of time.
Solution
A mobile app that lets users visualize time progression with dynamic progress bars across intervals (yearly, monthly, daily) and provides inspirational quotes to boost motivation.
Customers
Productivity enthusiasts, project managers, students, and freelancers who prioritize time management and goal tracking.
Unique Features
Dynamic progress bars for multiple time intervals, integration of motivational quotes, and minimalist design for seamless user experience.
User Comments
Intuitive interface for tracking goals
Motivational quotes keep users engaged
Lacks customization for progress bars
Desire for integration with other productivity apps
Helps visualize long-term progress effectively
Traction
Launched on ProductHunt with 500+ upvotes and 50+ comments within 24 hours; details on revenue or users not publicly disclosed.
Market Size
The global productivity apps market is projected to reach $58 billion by 2026, driven by increasing demand for time-management tools.
Goal Tracker Pro for Notion
Plan, Track & Review Your Daily Goals
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Problem
Users struggle with setting, tracking, and reviewing yearly, quarterly, and monthly goals, which leads to inefficiencies and lack of progress
reviewing yearly, quarterly, and monthly goals
Solution
A Notion template that allows users to set, track, and review goals; features include an automatic time progress widget, a visual progress overview, and customizable colors
automatic time progress widget, visual progress overview, customizable colors
Customers
Notion users such as project managers, productivity enthusiasts, and individuals focused on personal development, seeking structured methods to manage their goals
Unique Features
Integration with Notion for seamless user experience, automated progress tracking with time widget, and a highly customizable structure
User Comments
Users find the integration with Notion highly effective
The automatic time progress widget is a unique and useful feature
Customizable colors enhance user personalization
Helps maintain focus and clarity on goal progression
Some users may find it too complex without prior Notion experience
Traction
The product appears to be new with focused features for Notion users and has received positive feedback in niche productivity communities
Market Size
The global personal development market was valued at $38.28 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.1% from 2021 to 2028
Goal Tracker for Notion
Plan, track & review your daily goals
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Problem
The current situation is that users aim to set, track, and review their goals but often use disjointed and inefficient tools.
Drawbacks of the old situation include difficulty in ensuring consistent goal tracking and lack of integration, which leads to less effective management of goals.
Solution
A goal-tracking template for Notion allowing users to set, track, and review yearly, quarterly, and monthly goals.
Examples include setting up integrated time progress widgets and reviewing goals keenly with goal review templates to ensure clarity and alignment.
Customers
Productivity enthusiasts and professionals, notably those who already use Notion in their workflow
Goals-focused individuals such as project managers and personal development coaches seeking structured platforms.
Unique Features
Integrated time progress widgets
Goal review templates
User Comments
Users find the integration with Notion convenient and powerful.
Many appreciate the structured goal-setting approach.
The included templates make it easy to track progress.
Some users feel it lacks specific visualizations.
Overall positive feedback on enhancing productivity and clarity.
Traction
Launched on ProductHunt with continued user interest.
Available publicly for new users.
Gaining traction among Notion users who focus on productivity.
Market Size
The productivity software market, inclusive of goal-tracking tools, was valued at approximately $45 billion in 2021 and continues to grow as digital productivity solutions are in demand.
2025 GOALS
Time to turn your New Year Resolutions into Reality
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Problem
Users struggle to track their New Year resolutions and goals effectively throughout the year, leading to unfulfilled personal and professional growth aspirations. The old method involves using scattered and manual tracking systems like notebooks or generic apps, which leads to lack of structure and accountability.
Solution
A goal tracking app that allows users to track their daily progress and achieve goals with ease, ensuring their New Year resolutions become reality.
Customers
Individuals seeking personal development, aged 20-45, who are tech-savvy and motivated to achieve personal and professional goals.
Unique Features
It offers a seamless integration of goal tracking with a focus on daily progress updates, helping users maintain a steady momentum toward achieving resolutions.
User Comments
Simple and effective to use.
Helps keep accountability.
Great interface design.
Motivational reminder feature is useful.
Best app for goal tracking.
Traction
Newly launched product on ProductHunt.
No specific quantitative data on users or revenue available.
Market Size
The global goal-setting software market is projected to grow, with an estimated value of $918 million by 2023, driven by an increase in self-improvement trends.
Progress Flow
Where time flows and progress glows literally
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Problem
Users struggle to monitor their time effectively and lack motivation to track their progress.
Drawbacks of the old situation: Lack of visual representation makes it challenging to see progress, leading to decreased productivity and motivation.
Solution
Chrome extension
Track time with visual progress bars for day, month (including lunar phases), year, custom projects, and life journey.
Core features: Retro-styled design, intuitive interface, boost productivity, spark motivation.
Customers
Professionals working on projects with deadlines
Occupation/Position: Freelancers, remote workers, project managers.
Unique Features
Innovative visual representation of time tracking through progress bars
Customizable tracking options for different time frames and projects.
User Comments
Excellent tool for boosting productivity and staying motivated
The visual progress bars are game-changers for tracking time effectively
Love the retro design and intuitive interface
Helps in maintaining focus and achieving goals more efficiently
Great for freelancers and remote workers to manage their time effectively
Traction
Growing user base with positive feedback
Increased daily active users by 30% in the last month.
Featured on ProductHunt's top Chrome extensions list.
Market Size
$2.9 billion market size for time tracking and productivity tools globally in 2021
Expected to reach $4.5 billion by 2025 with a CAGR of 7.2%