Matt Kandler

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm the maker of Happyfeed. It started out as a simple gratitude journal but has evolved into a novel way to share happy moments with friends! Last year, I added a way to share your progress in groups called Pods. They became especially popular after the pandemic went full force. Users started asking how they could share their moments in Pods - with family, their partner, or...

I've been meaning to setup a community for Happyfeed for so long (thought about building something in-house) but this looks like a perfect tool to test out. Gorgeous homepage too ✨

Would absolutely recommend working with Weston and his team. They've partnered with companies of all sizes and have a keen eye for design that gives brands that extra polish that can be hard to achieve when starting out! ✨

I wonder why Facebook doesn't try releasing more products w/o associating it with their brand at launch? Is it a concern about being disingenuous? Seems to kill their chances of a less biased reception... Going to try this app out for a few days and try to keep in mind that some developers worked very hard on this!

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Matt, the solo founder of Happyfeed. Believe it or not, Happyfeed was originally just an experiment to learn how to code iPhone apps. Nearly 7 years later, it’s a pretty robust journaling app! I’ve been using Happyfeed for 1780 days now and I can say it’s made a significant impact on my life. Over the holidays, I added a PDF download feature and was shocked by all the...

Finally, I can live my dream of learning to cook pasta from a real (slightly tech-savvy) Italian Grandmother 😭

Gorgeous design, I got lost browsing a few itineraries in my favorite cities (in a good way)! Also noticed a couple tiny bugs: (1) Some of the images resolutions are too low for a large monitor, (2) The Instagram links on profile pages need to drop the "@", right now they are broken, (3) the url's get a little wonky with query params:...

I like the simple and straightforward design - especially the boolean/number toggling (speaks to us developers) Are you thinking about adding anything to visualize progress over time? Streaks, for example, can help make the product especially sticky - even more if you add push notifications to let users know they are about to break a streak.

I like the simplicity - I think Craigslist and Product Hunt started in a similar way but with emails. If you want to eventually turn it into a more complex product, you'll learn very quickly this way. Was there a reason for choosing texting over email? It can be more expensive from my experiences with Twilio, but open rates are higher... right?

What a clever idea! I've been a long-time gratitude journal user (and founder) and I think there's something interesting about starting your day off with ideas to make it better. Journaling has helped me do more of this but I like the idea of having specific intentions each day.

Thanks for building this! It's amazing how useless it is to search for "startups" or "tech" in the regular Apple Podcasts app. I've been wanting something simple like this for a while - excited to try some of these out.

Very slick design - I love the subtle microphone jack in the logo and the way they show the search bar

Wow, this seems really feature-rich! (In the best possible way.) How did you go about designing the interface? It's showing a lot of information in a pretty intuitive way. I'm sort of a nerd about moon cycles and sunrise/set times so I'm excited to see how this fits into my routine ☀️🌒

After 5 years exclusively in the App Store, I’m excited to introduce Happyfeed for Android - a simple gratitude journal 🎉

 New to gratitude journaling? It’s a popular practice in positive psychology where you can train your brain to focus on positive things by building a habit of tracking positive things each day. One study claims gratitude journaling can increase your happiness by 20%. 

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Looks amazing, great work! Design is super slick