Kairo is a delightful and flexible tracking dashboard to help you become a productive and better person. Track your time with easy to switch blocks; always know how much time is left. Have your goals, habits and achievements in front of you to stay motivated.

Hello Product Hunt ⊂(｡◕‿◕｡)つ, I am Marek, maker of Kairo. I always struggled with time trackers, mainly because of the granularity and the boring spreadsheet-like UI. I was never able to stick to it and make it a habit. I work in an asynchronous environment; I wanted to see how much time of a specific activity I have left to do anytime during the day and make sure I don't work more (8 hours a day). This made me more focused and productive. On one screen, I have the dashboard; on the other, I am working. The dashboard is flexible and customisable. There are additional blocks to help me become a better person and celebrate daily wins through habits, goals and progress blocks. For example, I quit drinking alcohol more than two years ago. Every day I am proud of my achievement, how many days passed and how much I have saved, which helps with motivation, especially when starting a new habit. I also track my water consumption and then check when did I drink throughout the day. I started working on Kairo in January this year. It has paying customers from day one, a delightful surprise, given it's a heavily saturated market. It can already pay for the services it is built upon for the year ahead, and because it is serverless, it can run on its "own". What motivates me is the feedback from happy users, who keep coming back to Kairo daily without email nudges or notifications. It is easy and fun to use, which was my primary goal. I have learned a lot in those 281 hours building Kairo in public as an Indie side project on a budget (~$50 spent in total so far, if I don't count my time). From new technologies (serverless, Netlify, Fauna, Vue 3, Tailwind) to going back to drawing, design, animations, in general, being creative (and childish ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ). All whilst being the CEO of another successful self-funded, profitable and calm company. As for the future features, short term, I would like to implement some of the feedback from current users covering repeating use cases - data export, projects, challenges,... In the long term, a better mobile experience (PWA mobile app). I'd love to know what you all think about it and if you are even just curious, give it a try; there is a seven-day trial. Happy to answer any questions and share other details and learning. Thank you for your support and feedback! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Thank you, Chris (@chrismessina), for hunting Kairo! PS and fun fact: Kairo, the name, is derived from Kairos, an Ancient Greek word. The ancient Greeks had two words for time: Chronos and Kairos. The former refers to the chronological or sequential time (the time as we know it), while the latter signifies a proper or opportune time for action. PS2: "Your productivity does not define your worth as a person at the end of the day. We are human beings, not human doings." - reddit u/thepeanutsbutter

@chrismessina @sotak Fun fact: the word “Kairos” is used all the time in modern Greek too. It’s not just an ancient word. 😜 Also, congrats! This looks so adorable. The market may be saturated but Kairo definitely stands out with the cute Tamagotchi-like animals.

@anna_0x Thank you and sorry for my lack of knowledge. (●´ω｀●) Can you tell me more, how is it being used in today's language, or any link to examples? I am curious, my source was wikipedia.

@sotak It’s used just as you wrote! In sentences like “it was TIME for a change” (in Greek: “ήταν ΚΑΙΡΟΣ για μια αλλαγή”), “the TIME isn’t right yet” (“δεν είναι ΚΑΙΡΟΣ ακόμα”). But if you wanna say “I don’t have TIME for this” you’d use Chronos/Χρόνος (“Δεν έχω ΧΡΟΝΟ για τέτοια”). Fun fact #2: It also means “weather” in modern Greek. Related to time, in a way, I guess. “The WEATHER is rainy” - “ο ΚΑΙΡΟΣ είναι βροχερός”.

@anna_0x Thank you Anna for taking the time to explain this to me. ◎[▪‿▪]◎ Can't have chosen the better name then. :) My productivity is like kairos (weather), there are days when it is all sunny, then there are days when it is a procrastination hailstorm. But I always find kairos in it somewhere. :D Sorry, might not have used it right.

@sotak I didn't know you were launching on PH already. Congrats on the launch!

Woah, this has to be one of the most creative and innovative products I've seen on PH for a while! Could you share your learnings on what product features/improvements have helped you in keeping your users hooked to the product?

@adityasriganesh Thank you! (｡✿‿✿｡) From what I have heard, it is the design, user experience and approach when compared to others. I think making it cute, fun and colourful makes people relate to it. Especially for something that is a necessity. Everyone knows that time tracking is useful, but many don't like it (like me). Autotrackers are easy to forget, and at least for me, they have insights, that I have never needed. And changing your habits all starts with you, so I have taken an approach to make it feel easy and playful, rather than making it look like a "system". Some people even asked how did I achieve the gamification. But there is no gamification, apart from users making it gamified for themselves. ٩(^‿^)۶

@sotak Thanks for sharing! Great stuff and all the best!

@adityasriganesh Thank you and thank you for asking!

I'm really happy to see Kairo on PH. This is one of the most polished products I've tried. I'm not that into time tracking, but man, this app is soooo soothing. I had a block that tracked the time I was looking at the animations in the app... 🤫 😅 And Marek is such a great guy. Keep it up, man. You get all my support.

@brslv Thank you for your kind words and support. Even if you are not into time or habit tracking, you are always welcome to stop by and stare at the bouncing blocks! ☆(❁‿❁)☆