Confetti

If anyone's interested in hearing about how Danny and I came to work together on Confetti, as well as my advice on how to meet a co-founder on the Internet, I shared my story and advice here: https://medium.com/@wilsonplau/i...

Hey Makers! 🚀 I created Confetti with my co-founder Wilson that I met on r/SideProject in May of 2019. Confetti is a fun and colorful platform for building positive habits or avoiding negative ones. I’ve been tracking my habits with pen and paper for years, so I decided that my self-improvement tracking needed an upgrade. I built Confetti so I can track my progress, similar to how I would track the growth of a business. Tracking my habits has become a ritual that has changed my life for the better. By making simple habit changes every day, I’ve become more self-disciplined, motivated, and productive version of myself. For this reason, I designed a platform that allows self-improvement junkies like myself to track their progress towards goals and build habits on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. Because let’s face it, learning Japanese, becoming a juggler, learning to cook, or quitting smoking doesn’t happen without daily commitment. Since new year’s resolutions are ripe for concurring, we decided it was a good time to share our creation with all of you.

I really love this! Also if you guys could add a way to re-order habits on the main page, that would be wonderful :)

Nice work! Love the micro-animation of confetti when a task is marked 'complete'! Nice touch that will help encourage users to complete a task that is akin to popping bubble wrap.

Hi Danny and Wilson, I love the simple nature and colorful visuals of the app. Great jobs you guys! One small thing is that do you have a "sound effect" for the confetti? You guys already have the visual feedback so I think having audio feedback as well would definitely enhance the overall experience. Also, when the users got to 100%, do you think there should be a special kind of confetti or message should pop up?

Nice polished side project :). I always found products in this space to be a bit of a paradox considering the audience, i.e. people who need help changing their behavior, so get them to change their app-using behavior in order to change other behaviors. Reframed..."How might we lighten the paradox of requiring app-usage behavior in order to succeed changing other behaviors?" For instance, once you setup Confetti, the data that powers everything are manual binary inputs (yes/nos). I think the challenge isn't getting that input, it's getting that input in a context that doesn't require a person to change their "rhythm" to provide it (i.e. sitting down at night, opening the website, navigating your dashboard and clicking stuff). A potential solution would be a mobile app, but more specifically a super-duper light-weight "headless" app that exists only to power push-notifications (or maybe even a progressive web app?). All it would do is push notiifcations to your phone/watch with the choices directly on the notification (i.e "did you do X, yes/no"). All other consumption and management would still be done in the main website, but it could potentially be a great hook for the target audience. It's a bit meta, but it could be a way to ease-in to the muscle of changing your behavior in preparation to actually change the other habits you list in the app.

I really like Confetti. The animations are smooth, it works as advertised BUT something very important is missing: there's no way to add a habit that you want to do X times per week. Say I wanna exercise 3 times a week. I don't care if that's a Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I just wanna do it 3 times per week. The problem is that if I don't do it on specific, pre-chosen days, Confetti will consider me a failure, even if I actually do it 3 times a week.