Kairo

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

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?

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.