Dry January Challenge

31-Day SMS challenge to reset your relationship with alcohol

198 followers

31-Day SMS challenge to reset your relationship with alcohol

198 followers

A mini spin-off product of Harold the Habit Tracker. Reset your relationship with alcohol with this 31 day challenge. Get one text per day to log your progress, and connect and celebrate with others doing the challenge as you go through. 👯‍♀️ 🎉

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Launch tags:Drinking•Alcohol•Health

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Sober October Challenge

Maker

------👷‍♀️ Why I built this-------- I was a big drinker as a teen, in college and in my 20s. 😬 Only recently have I started analyzing my relationship with alcohol and trying to find a healthier balance. The hangovers were just getting worse and worse, and ultimately I realized were getting in the way of me pursuing my dreams of being an entrepreneur. So I started using my other product, Harold the Habit Tracker, to track how many drinks I was having each day. The accountability and check-ins did wonders to build awareness around my drinking habits. My fiancé tracked his drinks with Harold for months and saw huge results as well (he really doesn't drink at all now). So I had the idea of making a version of Harold specifically for changing drinking habits and thought... a Dry January Challenge would be the perfect MVP. -------💯 Why its awesome and better than other apps---------- The problem (for me) with all these other behavior change apps–they try to dictate too much. They want all this information and all this money up front, only to tell me what to do and make me feel guilty when I don’t meet my goals. That’s why I design all my products with the same design philosophy: 💬 SMS based, so I don’t forget to track 👋 Light accountability (if it's too heavy-handed, I'll rebel) 🤸‍♀️ freedom and flexibility to make my own rules (pause when I need to, skip days w/o punishment) 🧠 occasional reminders of the benefits (science says this is actually part of how motivation is represented in the brain) 👍 No app to download or password logins to remember (because who needs another app or password to remember) -------🙋‍♀️ Any questions or feedback for me!? ---------- Let me know in the comments or on Twitter Would love to see you join the challenge!

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3yr ago

@kyleighsmith Congratulations !! Keen on using it Rooting for your success

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3yr ago

Sober October Challenge

Maker

@jayesh_soni1 Thanks Jayesh! Really appreciate it 🙌 Would love to have you join, let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

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3yr ago

@kyleighsmith Couldn't agree more. I'm in! Harold is the best.

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3yr ago

Reverie.fm

Congrats on the launch! I love this idea. Alcohol has played an interesting part in my life as well. Do you plan on doing this for other months as well or just January?

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3yr ago

Sober October Challenge

Maker

@jeff_edmo Thanks! This product was a way to test the waters...see if there was a good founder-market fit. In other words, I know there's a market for it, but how does that market work and am I the right person to find + sell to people with this problem. Depending on how it goes, would love to spin this off into a larger year-round product where you track your drinks per day / week and don't necessarily focus on going to 0 but focus on mindful drinking. (this is what I've been doing with my other product, https://haroldthehabittracker.com/) Would love to chat more about it with you if you're down!

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3yr ago

Zomory

I've seen similar SMS programs for smoking cessation offered by pharmacies. They use business-expensive software to run it! 😭 Funnily enough, I've never seen the evidence to support those programs. Love that this references a study on the home page!

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3yr ago

Sober October Challenge

Maker

@joshtoasts Oh no way! Never seen that. Very cool. Maybe I need to link up with pharmacies 😂 And thanks! Yeah I was really surprised to see how effective it was in that study, I was on the fence before and then once I saw that I was like ok this is kind of a no-brainer

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3yr ago

Zomory

@kyleighsmith For sure! I gave this ("smoking cessation pharmacy sms") a Google just now, I'm sure you'll find the results fascinating.

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3yr ago

Sober October Challenge

Maker

@joshtoasts yes very interesting! looks like even some studies done showing the effectiveness.

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3yr ago

Trello Tip Generator and Newsletter

Super cool idea, and im really tempted to participate, but Ill be out of the country for half of Jan and unable to get texts but I definitely think this is awesome and I'm tempted to try it when I get back for the second half of Jan! definitely want to know if this becomes a regular thing!

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3yr ago

Sober October Challenge

Maker

@britt_joiner Oh darn! Where are you headed? Yeah you can join anytime! You can also always track drinking habits via SMS with haroldthehabittracker.com (my other product)

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3yr ago

Trello Tip Generator and Newsletter

@kyleighsmith Oooh nice, I'll save that and give it a try when I get back! Headed to South Africa!

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3yr ago

Sober October Challenge

Maker

@britt_joiner Sounds good, safe travels!

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3yr ago