Personal Productivity Apps

Developers share self-built apps for habit tracking, todo lists, journaling, health logging, and personal self-tracking, often created to 'scratch their own itch' and seeking feedback or early users from the HN community.

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frikk Mar 29, 2017 View on HN

cool idea. how has the response been? i've had ideas for similar micro projects for personal workflow and task management but haven't pulled the trigger.

sbansal Jan 16, 2012 View on HN

This is my first application and I wanted to get some feedback from fellow hacker news readers. The application is not feature complete but I wanted to know if this might be useful to someone before I add any more functionality. I and my wife use this for tracking our todos and habits daily. Please let me know what you guys think of this. I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks.

bryanhogan Nov 10, 2025 View on HN

I'm making an app for self-tracking. Combining elements from habit trackers, health logging and journaling. Built for rich customization and local-first. Want to be free of rigid structures of many existing apps while providing a better UX / usability than using a spreadhsheet.Landing page + waitlist: https://dailyselftrack.com/

czue Feb 19, 2025 View on HN

This is awesome. It actually inspired me to build an app so that I—and anyone else—could make my own.https://lifeweeks.app/I built it in 2 days so it's very MVP-ish but would love to get feedback!

bryanhogan Oct 13, 2025 View on HN

I'm making an app for self-tracking. Combining elements from habit trackers, health logging and journaling. Built for rich customization and local-first. Want to be free of rigid structures of many existing apps while providing a better UX / usability than using a spreadhsheet.Updated the landing page just yesterday!Landing page + waitlist: https://dailyselftrack.com/

timdavila Oct 19, 2018 View on HN

I'm working on a personal organization app - basically integrating a to do list, habit tracker, and notes app into one. I think it's cool because it's useful to me and a "scratch your own itch" app.If you're curious it's at https://www.nominal.net

kyoteap Apr 23, 2023 View on HN

Looking out for some early users to give an app I built a year ago for personal use. The only users so far are my partner and I. We use it daily and our lives are significantly better for it.Some use-cases we've used it for:- Losing weight & generally a healthier lifestyle- Planning & keeping an eye on our finances.- Vacation planning- House hunting- Job hunting- Shopping list- JournalingI'm looking to see if this helps others too and eventually turn

oliv__ Mar 22, 2020 View on HN

Working on a simple journaling app (web & mobile) that I initially made for myself. Super minimal but it works and it fills my own need.I was thinking I'd start charging for it when it has more features (hashtags, search, pictures) but right now you can sign up for free to try it out (ignore the current copy).It's online at: https://days.app[EDIT] since people seem to be visiting the half baked landing page,

raghavarora Jun 21, 2019 View on HN

hi everyone, I made a simple app for Product Hunt users to look back at their week and see if they were productive and compare it to other users who use PH to track their goals.Ideas and Feedback Welcome. Upvotes Appreciated. Collaborators Invited.

This is super cool! What motivated you to build it? What do you feel it offers over other habit tracking apps :)