The Monthly Challenge App

@austinhocuspocus Thank you! Please do share ideas for future monthly challenges!

@evylyons of course! So I’d like to track: - Progress reading books - Daily writing on my blog - Dollars spent on impulse items (this sounds like a negative but it’s easier to not buy stuff if I’ve already reached my “quota” for the day) - Contracts I’ve submitted proposals for - Professional contacts made That’s just of the top of my head — I’ll let you know if I have more ideas!

@evylyons More ideas: - Water drank per day - Meals cooked, as opposed to ordering out - Some sort of macronutrient threshold tracking, like “days I get under 25% of my calories from fat” - Dollars I’ve put into savings - Code written every day (maybe just measured as a binary “yes/no” on whether I wrote code that day?) - Screen time per day (this is like the macro measurement or the impulse dollars spent, I’d want to stay under some threshold or quota) - Active users on my blog (this one’s iffy, since it’s mostly out of my hands) - Tweets I’ve engaged with per day - Distance walked per day - Time I spend outside - Time meditating - Time spent sitting vs standing/moving - Sugar and salt intake - Days working 8-10 hours (this may be another “quota” type goal) - Time spent cooking (as opposed to meals cooked, this would measure actual time spent in the kitchen cooking) - Time spent cleaning - Days since my last cigarette (*not* doing something can be a good habit too!) - Emails / chat messages sent I’ll try to think of more, but these are all things I would like to build good, healthy habits around.

@duilen @evylyons another reminder that I should be doing more pushups! Just joined and set a lower than 100 per day goal. Baby steps. Mobile onboarding is smooth. Great time of year for an app like this!

@evylyons @davidsmooke nice! I'm glad we made the goal configurable instead of arbitrarily making a 100 daily pushup goal for everyone. A lot of people are setting goals between 10-50 pushups. Maybe the default should have been 25-50.

@evylyons @duilen kinda like the customization - like how a golfing handicap can make the game feel collaborative even if the skill level of the players varies greatly. My gut is that ppl with high pushup goal are more likely to track their progress than ppl with a low pushup goal.

@duilen @davidsmooke So glad you are on board! I am adamant that people set their own goals and also we want to make sure that 100% consistency isn't required. I don't believe success in these things is binary.

@maxine_buchert We have a lot of ideas to increase the collaborative / team nature too! Excited you are on board!

@rachel_levitz Thank you! Excite you are giving it a try!

@anastasiia_strekalova Thank you!