Hi Product Hunt 👋 I’m Mathieu, founder of Daily Rituals for Couples. I started building this around a very simple observation: Most relationships don’t suddenly break. They slowly get crowded out by life. Work. Kids. Phones. Tiredness. Logistics. Netflix. Different moods. Different energy. You can love each other deeply and still reach the end of the day realizing you barely really met each other. And that’s the problem I wanted to work on. Not “How do we fix a broken relationship?” But: How do we help two people who already love each other keep choosing each other in ordinary life? There are already many couples apps with quizzes, questions, scores, streaks and content. We wanted to build something different. ### A couples app that actually wants you to close the app. Daily Rituals tries to understand the moment you are in and help you find one small thing worth doing together. Maybe you need to talk. Maybe you need to laugh. Maybe you need five quiet minutes. Maybe you need a hug. Maybe you need some space first. Maybe you want to flirt. Maybe intimacy feels right. Maybe one of you is simply exhausted. The point is not to give every couple the same exercise. The point is to help you find the right next moment for the two people you are today. Then: put the phone down. That is the product loop we care about: Open → understand the moment → choose something → experience it together → leave the app. And over time, we want Daily Rituals to become much more than a library of activities. We’re building toward something that understands the rhythm of a relationship: how each partner is arriving, when one person needs closeness and the other needs space, when you’re together, when you’re apart, when something needs repairing, when nothing is wrong but you’ve simply stopped noticing each other, and when a small playful or intimate moment could completely change the evening. ### We’re also building for the moments when your partner isn’t there. Sometimes they’re working. Travelling. Tired. Not ready to engage. Or simply haven’t replied yet. The app should still be useful. You can reflect. Learn something. Understand yourself better. Discover a ritual privately. Prepare a surprise. Become more intentional. Then bring something better back to the relationship later. That has become an important part of our vision: Daily Rituals should help you become a better partner even when your partner isn’t currently using it with you. We are not trying to replace therapy. We are not trying to diagnose relationships. And we definitely don’t want couples staring at a relationship score wondering whether they are “doing well enough.” We want to help with something much more human: notice each other again. A question. A breath. A touch. A laugh. A repair. A surprise. A few minutes of undivided attention. Small things. Repeated often. Because I increasingly believe that the health of a relationship is built less by occasional grand gestures and more by tiny moments of presence that happen again and again. Which creates a strange challenge for us as product builders: ### How do you build retention for an app whose goal is to reduce screen time? Our answer is: Retention should not mean: “They spent 25 minutes in Daily Rituals.” It should mean: “That gave us a good moment yesterday. Let’s see what we can do together tonight.” That is the habit we want to create. Not dependence on an app. A habit of returning to each other. We’re still learning and building every day, so I would genuinely love feedback from this community: Does this idea of an app designed around what happens AFTER you close it resonate with you? And especially: What would make you keep using a couples app after the novelty of the first week disappears? Thank you for taking a look. With love, Mathieu Founder, Daily Rituals for Couples Small rituals change how love feels.