Zen Timer
Description An app where you can spin the zen-logo as a sort of egg timer, then it starts counting down so you can get prepared, then it plays a singing bowl sound, and the timer starts. When the timer is up, it plays the singing bowl sound again.
Zen Timer I don't care, I'm shipping this. I still enjoy using it. Why not just push it on android store. The worst thing that can happen is that nobody cares.
Made a website for it:
Zen Timer After working on Zen Timer for a long time, I’ve decided to scrap this project. I think the reason I wasn’t proud of it is because I’m fundamentally against the concept of meditation apps.
A meditation app is almost ironic. Most of them suck, and I tried to make one that doesn't. But I found out that the very idea of having an app that tracks your mindfulness was the thing that I hated with all the meditation apps. It's like quantifying peace. It doesn’t sit right with me.
"An app that gamifies presentess"
– From this video at 38:50
So, I won’t be shipping Zen Timer. It's now among the scrapped projects.
Still, I’m really glad I made it. I learned a lot, used it for months, and it gave me a very important lesson.
I think the lesson from this project is that I shouldn't finish something at all costs. I have to actually think it is a net positive for the world. And I just don't see it for this project.
Zen Timer Ok, I am just going to buy 12 testers on Fiverr or something.
Zen Timer Just release it. Don’t worry about whether or not it’s impressive or if people will like it or even care. Just release it.
Zen Timer Tried promoting it on Reddit, got rejected from every subreddit I tried due to self-promotion. This is very discouraging.\n\nI almost feel embarrassed at how “easy” this app is to build. My main value for this app is that it is simple, limited, minimalistic. All the other apps are so feature-bloated. I just want a clean, simple timer that tracks my meditation. And I built that. But I feel that since the app isn’t hard to make, it would be embarrassing to release it. But then again, I like using it.
Zen Timer Apparently I need 12 beta testers to release it on Android. That sucks. I have been putting this off because of the beta testers thing for 2 weeks now. Also been very busy with Strimo. I made a Reddit account, and am gonna start posting on every relevant subreddit about the app and try to get beta testers.
Zen Timer Polished, built a very minimal app. Now I just need to release it on Android.
Zen Timer Rebuilt a full working version in Flutter. Now I just need to make Firebase security more strict, fix some UI bugs, create app showcase images in Figma and release it on the Play Store.
Zen Timer I have been using this prototype for 5 months and I still love using it. The singing bowl sound works very well as the start and end of my meditation session. I want to build this so it automatically tracks my meditation time. So the easiest thing to do would be to remake this in SvelteKit, so I can easily make the API and database. Then I just have to find out how to make this into a Capacitor app.
Zen Timer I’m kinda sick of all the shit meditation timers that are either completely feature-bloated or full of ads. I just want a simple timer that follows traditional Zen meditation style. I’m just gonna build a basic prototype and start using it myself.