Hey all at Product Hunt! I'm James, an indie iOS dev. Reach is a sobriety app, but it started somewhere unusual: three months reading r/stopdrinking. I didn't set out to build another day-counter. Honestly, those already exist and they're good at what they do. I Am Sober has 174K ratings and a 4.9-star average. But every review I read said the same thing between the lines, counting days is easy. It's the 15 minutes when a craving actually hits that nobody's app was built for. So instead of designing from a whiteboard, I went and read what real people said got them through that moment, not clinicians, not wellness accounts, actually comment threads. Five things kept coming up: reaching out to one real person, "playing the tape forward" past the first drink to the next morning, riding out the urge instead of fighting it, replacing the ritual (not just the drink), and refusing to romanticize the past. None of that was theory. It was what people said worked, in the moment, in their own words. That reshaped the whole approach. Most competitors onboard around goals and stats, then bolt a coping tool on as an afterthought if you find it. I flipped that. The craving toolkit is set up during onboarding, while you're calm, so it's one tap away before you ever need it, not something you have to discover mid-crisis. It's live on the App Store now, 14-day free trial, and I've tried to make the trial itself transparent, since billing distrust is the single most common complaint I saw about the funded competitors in this space. Genuinely want feedback, especially if you've tried other sobriety/habit apps and something about them never quite worked for you. That's exactly the gap I'm trying to close.

Reach: Quit Drinking Toolkit

A craving toolkit for the 90 seconds that matter most

A craving toolkit for the 90 seconds that matter most