Honored to have the Product Hunt logo included in the video as a blockable website. 🙏🏼

Hi PH! I am Alex. In a first place, I’m a dad of a 2-year old son and a husband of a lovely wife. And only then I’m a developer and a co-founder who spends all his work time with a laptop. Every day, I want to finish my work on time, close that laptop and spend the evening with my family or have some rest. It’s easier said than done. Did you ever notice how much distractions at our computer prevent us from reaching the goal? Colleagues and friends ping every now and then; Unplanned tasks ruin our schedule; Facebook, YouTube, apps, and messengers spend budgets to develop features that will distract us for sure. Now, you were so focused, and... Our willpower is just not enough to handle the technological pressure. To improve, I need to know WHY the heck I visit Facebook or use that app for a half of an hour? Did it harm my productivity or was it work-related? In real-time, please. RescueTime or the analogs aren’t enough here. They either put a pile of “good-to-know” stats without any context on my head or are just too difficult to get through the UI every day. We aim to make Y-Productive a blend of the most useful features to track and improve your workflow. I and my teammates use it every day. How is it said? “Eat your own dog food”, right? Here is my productivity chart preparing for the launch for example: We spent a good year in a beta polishing the app so I hope to hear what you think about it. Let me know your thoughts or questions about Y-Productive! P.S. don't forget to use the promo code: MEOWPRODUCTIVE on a pricing page (wink)(wink) P.P.S. What's your opinion about the app? Maybe the field to improve or add new features? Would be glad to hear your thoughts, people!

I left Rescue Time after figured out they a) constantly got hacked and b) they sell data. If you think it's not related — you're wrong. It get hacked to sell the data as well. Think, services like that should avoid using cloud, or if they are, it must provide top security level.

Pros:

Good tool for tracking productivity. Think, macOS should provide it by defaults (as iOS will does since 12).

Cons:

Security risk: collecting tons of private data and doesn't provide multi-factor authentication

I was browsing RescueTime just yesterday to see how slow it develops. Now I see this! Greeat job team and Alex! Downloaded the free version, I'm sure I'll like it. Will reach out after trying! — Mo :)

The team is passionate about their mission/vision. I have high hopes for how this product will grow.

Pros:

Best productivity application I've used; great data visualization identified causes of distraction quickly; made me more focused in days

Cons:

Missing contextual tasks; sometimes email is a productive task, sometimes its an unproductive one :D

I'd like to have a free plan with minimum features.

Pros:

Beautiful and modern design

Cons:

No free plan like in Rescue Time

Very useful extension. Been using it since January 2018 and you know what :) my productivity has increased a lot! Thank you guys

good luck, guys! proud!

Having used a number of productivity apps before, I can say most of such

apps focus on one of the aspects, only: e.g. time boxing, tasks organization etc. And none of those provide a complex solution, "all-in-one". Y-Productive is definitely one of pioneers here. It tracks your productivity in real time. In the focus mode, I have much more chances to complete the work. Feature of history/statistics makes me thinking about retrospective of my work, and it gives another bunch of motivation. Categories feature allows to "teach" the app constantly, and prevent a distraction next time.

I also know Y-Productive team works on the feature kind of "Smart Coach" - virtual assistant which gives an advice based on user behavior. I`m really starving to test it, since this sounds like real AI. Also, mobile app may become a logical extension to the current...

Pros:

Cool UX/UI design and useful features - focus mode, reports, categories. My personal assistant who never sleeps and tracks my productivity.

Cons:

Not really a con, but... I`m missing Focus Mode for desktop apps (Mac/Win). Now, Focus Mode works for browsers, only.

Find it very ironic how I usually spend a lot of time on product hunt at work as a distraction only to love a product that would prevent me from doing this...awesome concept though

How about two-factor authentication?

Saw it. Tried it. Signed up for it. Liked it immensely more than Rescuetime within a short while of use. Decided to stop using Rescuetime since I realized that it recorded plenty of information, but the experience wasn't really what I was hoping for when I started using it and I rarely checked the data. This app is cleaner upon first impressions and I've already found myself using it more and paying attention to what I'm doing and not doing more. Well done and looking forward to future updates.

Pros:

Very nice to use & only takes a few minutes to get used to it. Already find it helping with productivity & being used more than Rescuetime.

Cons:

All the people that are grumbling that the Maker is actually charging for something he made.

Useful app! Really helps you to control and analyze your time

Would really recommend to try out the app if you want to have a tool for focusing on your daily tasks.

Pros:

Simple yet powerful tool with great UI/UX. Productivity counter and focus mode are really good features.

Cons:

Maybe would be great to have Productive/Unproductive categorisation for different spheres (like work, self-learning, home etc.)

By the way, people - if I may ask you a question. Are there certain goals or improvements you want to achieve for your workday or habits? Like, become more concentrated or spend less time on FB or YT, or earn more by achieving more? Your answer will help us to better understand what new features will be implemented :)

Hey @alex_zhebryakov, my goal for using the app is to get a habit to plan a day and follow such plan. I tried achieving it with just a self-discipline, but it didn't really give a sustainable result. My hope is that Y-productive will help me to form such habit and support me in maintaining it. For now it seems that it will do the job. Do you by chance have any educational videos or articles on good practices of using the tool? I saw the hint on the main page but would appreciate more on the matter - like - what are the hints for reviewing the feedback? - what are the patterns I may observe? - how should I approach any negative patterns that I will observe? Or maybe you can recommend any relevant resource/book on the matter. Appreciate your response, M

I've been using the app for very long time and I'm completely amazed from the first day. It's not only functional but it's also beautiful and user-friendly (yes, a very important point!).

I had problems with working constantly on things but now it greatly improved and I know where I lose my time and work on improving that.

Pros:

Easy to understand, ability to track where you lose your time, block unproductive web-sites.

Cons:

I miss a mobile app but it's in developers plans :)

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Good luck guys!

Seems like an amazing product, good luck with the launch!