Kairo

Time, habit and goal tracker on one flexible dashboard

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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.
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Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
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
Anna Filou
@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.
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@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.
Anna Filou
@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”.
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@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.
Greg 'X' Willis
@sotak I didn't know you were launching on PH already. Congrats on the launch!
Aditya Sriganesh
Ricotta
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?
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@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
Aditya Sriganesh
Ricotta
@sotak Thanks for sharing! Great stuff and all the best!
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@adityasriganesh Thank you and thank you for asking!
Borislav
Apps On Grid
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.
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@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! ☆(❁‿❁)☆
Felicitas Hilge
Love the design, it really stands out from the markets generic look. Curious about the features now ;) Congrats on the launch!
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@felicitashilge Thank you! (*~▽~) Go, check it out and if you have any feedback, please do share! A friendly warning, you might find yourself enjoying staring at a bouncing bear, cat, or an owl riding waves for a while. (☉‿☉✿)
Felicitas Hilge
@sotak Will certainly, thanks for the reply. Have not seen a bear yet, can't wait ;)
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@felicitashilge (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ
Alex Goff
Amazing work @sotak ! I love seeing more time trackers coming to the front - especially those made for people not companies. I've built a similar thing called everyhour (www.producthunt.com/posts/everyhour) which is a PWA focused on getting your life balance in check. How you build it while being CEO elsewhere is insane! Have you found time tracking helps you stop procrastinating?
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@acgoff Oh nice! (❁‿❁) I think it makes sense to go into the B2B space with this too. I have some ideas how this can work for teams. In our company (where I am the CEO), we are not obsessed about time tracking or measuring the productivity every day. Things get either delivered or not and that can be done in cycles. What is important to me is that people don't spend more time at work (8 hours or less a day) and that the time tracking is not getting into their way of work, which is usually the case. But I think adopting a product like Kairo in a company would require a mental shift in most of the companies out there, who are always looking for new ways how to spy on their employees. "How you build it while being CEO elsewhere is insane!" Our company is calm and asynchronous. It does not drain me out of the energy, so I can afford from time to time spend some time on something else. :) "Have you found time tracking helps you stop procrastinating?" Yes and no. :) I have a little productivity hack, that I have a block for procrastination. If I feel like I am procrastinating I activate that block, that gives me a half an hour of dedicated time for procrastination. When I have solely focus on procrastination, it usually becomes pointless after 15 minutes, so I stop it and continue with focus. :D This works for me quite well in the last months. Thanks again for your support!
Alex Goff
@sotak sounds like a great company! Completely agree that tracking should be quick, easy and actionable. The way everyhour works is by asking you to record everyhour of day with a simple drag and drop. The idea is that it makes you intentional and aware of your time, but not only work time - time with family, friends, hobbies, exercise, goals. I see a similar intent with Kairo. Do you only track work tasks?
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@acgoff You can track anything really. There are users who use it for their personal hobbies, there are people who track only specific work tasks. I am tracking both, e.g. time for writing, even some other personal things, if needed. Given it is that much flexible, I have seen people making a dashboard like a calendar and tracking different blocks. Flexibility for the win. ✌.ʕʘ‿ʘʔ.✌
Alex Goff
@sotak brilliant, last question, do you think measuring the seconds are important? Otherwise good luck today - a great product!
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@acgoff No, I don't think measuring seconds is important. Especially if you are working in a deep work mode with a focus. 59 seconds here or there. But I know that to some managers even seconds are important, which is wrong. :) Thank you for asking questions and for your support! Appreciate it.
Serudda
Hi Marek, First of all, the product is so clean and it has an excellent UX. The only problem that I see is that maybe it could be "obvious" for you some of the cards (timer, pomodoro, bad habit, etc), but for the new users, not at all. Do you have any Youtube videos explain each field? with some examples?
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@sergio_ruiz3 Hi Sergio, thank you for the feedback! How about the in-app help (Help?) at the top right corner, did this not help a bit?
Serudda
@sotak I tried it, but you know: "make the user process as simple as possible"... There's a long explanation block that maybe not everyone wants to read. BUT, the user could be entered into a tutorial flow to make the cognitive extra effort more acceptable.
Serudda
@sotak A good/easy first approach, add some dashboard examples (e.g. Productivity Dashboard, Dev dashboard, Designer dashboard, Marketer dashboard, etc etc). Like Notion made in the past.
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@sergio_ruiz3 Yes, I totally agree. There are some great setups other users did, which I didn't even think of. I want to add "Ideas" feature, where you could just easily search through e.g. habits, dashboards or goals.
Serudda
@sotak exactly, that is a good one
Bilal Chaglani
Love the fact that you included pomodoros. Great product!
Marek Sotak
ScreenDust
Maker
@bilal_chaglani Thank you! ٩◔‿◔۶ The pomodoros are actually a byproduct and that is when I realised, it is really flexible. User asked if it would be possible to create just a countdown block with alert, that would not show on reports but will run alongside the time tracking. When I implemented this type of a block, I then realised that it can be used as a countdown for pomodoro session, including breaks. So a combination of two blocks, goal block - where you can set that you want to track up to 6 sessions, and then countdown for breaks creates the pomodoro functionality. win-win ヾ(＠＾▽＾＠)ﾉ
Bilal Chaglani
Interesting.
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