Hey Product Hunt! We're two founders who both hit rock bottom once and that's how Covenant happened.

When someone relearns to walk after a serious injury, what's the first question the doctor asks?

Not "when can you run again." Not even "when can you walk." Usually it's: can you move your toes? Just that. Not the whole leg, not standing, toes. Then feet. Then standing with support. Then a frame. Then rails. Then, one day, on their own. No one hands over a training plan on day one, because that's not what a body just out of trauma can use yet. Every stage only works because it builds exactly what the next one needs.

Hi ProductHunt, we're two people building Covenant, and this is our first post here, so an introduction felt right before anything else.

Covenant is a small web app for people in a hard chapter: early recovery, grief, job loss, burnout, starting over after something broke. Not a habit tracker, not therapy. The idea: rebuild trust in yourself the same way you'd rebuild a body, smallest possible unit first, evidence before ambition.

How it works, briefly:

- You tell it roughly where you're starting from, no wrong answers, just so it doesn't hand you a "run a mile" step when you need a "move your toes" one.

- You pick one area of life to focus on (we call them ladders: physical, social, career, environment).

- You make one small promise. Genuinely small. "Drink a glass of water" small, not "go to the gym five days a week" small.

- You resolve it honestly: kept it, made it smaller (still counts, resizing when something's too big is the actual skill), or didn't keep it (just information, not a verdict).

That's the whole loop. No streaks, no red X's, nothing asking you to perform recovery for an audience. Just your own kept promises, shown back to you as real evidence, until your word starts meaning something to you again.

The mechanic borrows from two ideas neither of us invented: behavioral activation, the idea that action comes before motivation, not after, and Kaizen, the idea that small and sustainable beats big and dramatic. We just built a daily habit around them.

This came out of our own low points, honestly. One of us went through stretches of burnout where every "just rebuild your routine" landed like being asked to run before anyone had asked about the toes. The other hit a much lower point a few years back, conflict across nearly every part of life at once, and what worked wasn't a leap. It was refusing to take one, on purpose, so there was nothing big enough left to fail at.

We're early, still finding where this breaks. Curious, anyone else here built something out of their own low point? How did you find the "move your toes" version of it?