ProgressBar

A Windows taskbar app to track your day & year progress

9 followers

A Windows taskbar app to track your day & year progress

9 followers

ProgressBar is a Windows taskbar app that shows your day and year progress, so you can make time for what matters. 💬 user review: "ProgressBar really helps me see the day progress, jump out of procrastinating and crack on with important tasks for the day" 😃

Launch tags:Productivity•Developer Tools•Side Project

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AI Spirit Animal

Maker

Hi ProductHunt folks 👋, Excited to be here to launch my first product! ProgressBar is a simple app that sits in your Windows toolbar and tells you how much progress you've made through your day and year. 💬 Why I built it I made ProgressBar because I needed it. When working long hours as an entrepreneur, I would begin each day by setting out tasks that I'd like to complete by the end of the day. However, I found that I'd finish the day with some tasks not even started, let alone complete. I realised I spent too much time on work that wasn’t no longer useful. I was inspired by @andreyazimov's ProgressBarOSX [1] as to tool to help me stay on track during the day, but unfortunately it was only available on OSX and I couldn't find anything similar on Windows that I liked the design of. So I decided to build it myself as a side project! And as a side benefit I'd also learn some valuable skills in launching a product, marketing it, supporting users and so on 😃 🚀 Features: - Show/hide progress bar by right-clicking on the Windows taskbar - Dark mode supported - Change the time when your day starts and ends by clicking on the bar - On the roadmap: add dates for custom goals. Excited for my first launch, and would love to hear what people think! 🙂 [1] https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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5yr ago

Helpdesk by LabiDesk

@andreyazimov @apuchitnis Productivity rocks! 🚀 Thanks for making it!

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5yr ago

The app and the concept itself is pretty simple but really great. However, this is a bit too overpriced, may I recommend you to suggest the users to pay what they want? 0$+ shceme. Or maybe ask for donations instead, many will then make the promotions of your app and then you could get even more users, and more benefits! People those days prefer Free apps with the possibility to donate, I swear!

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5yr ago

AI Spirit Animal

Maker

Thanks for the thoughts @mathieu_haas! I was considering other payment options like you suggested (eg donations) - something I'll probably trial out in the future 🙂

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5yr ago

Could you share a bit about what technologies you used to create it? I would love to create similar widgets of my own for pomodoro, Todoist task count. Really hard to find tutorials/documentation for Windows widgets online.

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5yr ago

AI Spirit Animal

Maker

Sure @aadil_ayub! It's built in .NET Framework and C#. I created a fast MVP in only a couple of hours using electron, but unfortunately you can't use electron to build DeskBands, which are like little apps that live in the Windows toolbar.

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5yr ago

I love having ProgressBar on my toolbar. On multiple occasions it's made me realise how quickly my day is progressing and caused me to reprioritise what I need to get done. Seeing the clock change is great, but nothing is as visual as this for understanding how far the day has progressed.

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5yr ago

AI Spirit Animal

Maker

Thanks @stefanmanku for your help in guiding ProgressBar to where it is today! So glad that you've found it useful 🙂

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5yr ago

Leadcamp

I absolutely love things that are simple and genius at the same time. @apuchitnis , this product totally falls under this category. Just wish it had macOS version...

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5yr ago

AI Spirit Animal

Maker

Thanks @edita - keeping it lean and simple was one of my design goals as I built it 🙂 There's a similar tool for OSX if you're interested, made by @andreyazimov: https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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5yr ago

Leadcamp

@andreyazimov @apuchitnis The life option scares me a bit...

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5yr ago

AI Spirit Animal

Maker

@edita I believe that's actually a custom deadline - you can put "life" there, or any other deadline name you want 🙂

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5yr ago

Leadcamp