Show HN: Foorr – A minimal to-do app with social accountability

I took the plunge and made an account to try it out. Here's my feedback:

1.Don't require an account, period. There's no reason to require it. If someone wants to sync their data, let them opt-in.

2.I sent a friend invite to an alternate email of mine. After creating another account, I hade to verify my email. This shouldn't be necessary, since the invite was sent to my email in the first place.

3.I got the two accounts to be friends, but there wasn't much benefit to it IMO. All it tells you is their streak, not the specific tasks they want to complete. I think there's a lot of room for improvement here. A. Let people see other's tasks. B. Let people add little emoji reactions. I think that would be fun.

4.When you check off a task, it takes somewhere between 230-342ms to show that it's visually checked off, since it waits for the network request to complete. I would recommend updating the UI beforehand.

5.I spent the time to write all this out because I think the principle of the idea is really cool. I have a rudimentary version of this with my siblings using a google sheet. We check the sheet once in a while to see how we're all doing with our stress-inducing tasks. Having a more polished and social version of this could be a lot of fun.

Keep up the good work :)

Requiring account creation to view the program, even see any screenshots or view a description of how it works, will stop most people from proceeding. It immediately triggered my "user-hostile" alarm.

Your app will be held back by requiring to create an account with email and password.

Most of the users just use "Login with Google" or other well known OAuth providers and also want to try the product before creating an account.

When I switched from user / password to OAuth I couldn't believe how many users choose it. I could deactivate traditional user & password login and nobody would notice it.

I deal with ADHD and procrastination and to-do lists are already pretty psychologically rough. Sure, it feels good to complete things, especially if I remember to mark them complete, but when I have a lot of tasks I don't want to start, they all look gigantic and I start ignoring it.

I can't imagine how awful that would be for social connections to be watching, maybe commenting on it. "Hey buddy, aren't you going to fix the scanner? It's been weeks".

Gamification makes things worse for me. Maybe it feels good to have a streak and level up. But then something comes up and you lose your streak and that's like 10x worse. The app is basically saying you suck. That was my Duolingo experience, which is probably why they now make it very hard to lose a streak, but then it just feels dumb.

I stopped playing Wordle after missing a couple days, losing the streak.

Other ADHD/executive function disorder people might have another opinion. We're all wired differently.

I say all this without trying it out because the pitch turns me off. If there's something unique that makes it better than social accountability and gamification, maybe put that in the pitch.

- No screenshot - No how it works - Says Get things actually done. (but how???) - Requires an account to see the product; no brainer.

I have no idea what this app does why would I sign up...

+1 for spelling "to-do" correctly.

typography is important and your logo isn't nailed it. Please, give it to designer to redo it

Yeah sorry, lost me at register…

But it sounds like a cool idea!