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Autopilot — Your perfect morning, every morning
contact: hello@blacklotus.ooo
Turn your morning routine into a step-by-step guided audio flow.
Comes with founder faves like: 1 min workouts, gratitude, tooth brushing, and goal setting.
Edit these activities or create your own to build your perfect morning.
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@zencephalon also, I'm a PMM at Taplytics - happy to get you guys set up on a Free Plan with Taplytics (A/B Testing, Feature Flags, Push Notifications, Customer Journey Automations) if you're up for it!
@zencephalon One thing I noticed is how jarring the AI voices are. Maybe voice overs from the founders would be a nice touch imo or actual human voices in the future.
@will_lam Hahaha, yeah U caught us with our hands full of Magic cards. You can find me at zencephalon#63100 on Arena. That functionality definitely sounds helpful, you can also email me at matt@blacklotus.ooo to send me details on Taplytics!
@will_lam For sure, thanks for the feedback in this area. We've got human voice over in several of the Discover flows, but we really want to make sure people can customize flows so we'll have to fall back to TTS for that for now. I've got plans to use higher quality voices in the future (e.g. Google Wavenet) and we could also allow people to record themselves. Do you thoughts on which direction to take first?
Hey Everyone!
We’ve been on a quest to figure out how we could build an app to give us reliably awesome days. We quickly realized that the key to a great day was a great morning.
Amazing - so if we could just nail our mornings, the rest of the day would be excellent too? Yes, but there’s a catch.
While it was easy to dream up a perfect morning routine, actually doing it often didn’t go as planned when the morning rolled around. We found ourselves crawling out of bed with low motivation levels, and getting off to a great start was a struggle.
We wondered if mornings would be easier if we built an app that would literally tell us what to do, out loud, every single step of the way. TLDR; it worked. All we need to do is press play, and our customized morning coach is leading us through the routine we previously committed to.
Autopilot has already helped us a lot, but it’s very much a work in progress. There’s nothing we’d value more than your feedback on how we can make this tool helpful in your life.
Thank you so much for checking out Autopilot!
Evan
P.S. A note on privacy, data-ownership, and advertising.
Our ethos as a team is to give you total control and ownership over any data you produce while using our products. Autopilot V1 is a completely offline experience. There are no user accounts and all data you generate exists only on your phone’s local storage. We do have Google Analytics in place to understand the metrics of how people are using the app.
We believe deeply in attention ownership and don’t think advertisers ought to be able to buy a slice of your precious attention without your consent. Therefore, our product is currently free and ad-free, but we are a business and will seek non-ad solutions to monetization in the future, possibly via subscription or paid premium features.
@the_esc Guys, you have built something great! There are not many health startups these days. I love the Autopilot morning routines and meditation approach. Branding is awesome also - faded-out retro colors are nice. I think you should add the WIM HOFF breathing technique and cold showers options for advanced users.
P.s. Imao, you should work on the Autopilot logo, it is really generic and falls behind the main identity great style.
@the_esc @stanui Adding Wim Hoff style breathing seems like a great idea! We could probably use guidance in this area, we've felt wary of infringing other people's IP when it comes to creating flows. I'd flow to partner with people like Wim Hoff and get their official seal of approval.
Thanks for the note about our logo! Let us know if you know any great designers, we definitely don't have design backgrounds, hah.
@the_esc @zencephalon You can IMPROVE logo today following 3 SIMPLE TIPS:
- Use more bright colors in the logo. Don't use basic colors like white and black, they are dull (except you have an ultra-concept sign design)
- If Using the first letter of your brand name "A", add some unique graphic trait to it, connecting with your app concept idea. So users can remember the sign and associate your app with the logo instantly.
- Better divide brand name for beater reading, e.g. AutoPilot except for Autopilot
Have yall read Manna by Brian Marshall? This reminds me of the AI in that short story except instead of our manager hijacking our brain to make us work more, our best self hacks our brain to make our lives better.
I just switched from an early morning call schedule to a late night schedule here in Taipei so I'm excited to build out my morning flow with autopilot!
@davefontenot Haha, yes! Actually Zain recommend it to me and the first part of it felt like ultra-near future sci-fi. ;)
@zencephalon wow just used it this morning here in taipei. that is a gamechanger. i so often go to bed with a plan for the morning and then i wake up and snooze until my first meeting and then play the rest of my day on defense. this morning, i woke up to my first alarm, opened autopilot and I feel like I won the day before my meetings even started. made it so easy to actually have a morning routine.
Love the name and the idea! It feels like a no-brainer bringing all the habits/routines under one place. Definitely going to try it out 💯
@5harath Hell Yes! Thank you and let us know what you think of it.
Love this - Awesome idea and execution. Most of our days get very stressful, and that starts from the moment we wake up. Great way to... dear I say, autopilot :)
I love the concept and, in practice, it's amazing too! The UX is great and I can't wait to use my first "build" tomorrow morning :) My only question is: how can I have my build get triggered automatically after turn off my alarm in the morning?
@jacob_sheldon Hey Jacob, that's a really great question. On iOS it poses a technical / product challenge due to the restrictions on that platform. We could send a notification in the morning but that's unlikely to wake you if you've got DnD mode on. I want to make it possible to wake you up in the morning if you open our app before going to sleep. The app would effectively run all night in the background. Not the most elegant solution.
Nice Evan. Took me a while to get my morning routine to stick, but the trick was doing the same thing immediately out of bed and gradually increasing the intensity. The voiceover is cool and reminds me of products that try to give you a "morning brief" of news, weather and podcasts. I think Spotify and Alexa have those features. Maybe this could be a wedge into introducing morning content.
@rickyyean Nice Ricky! Sounds like U intuitively learned the Tiny Habits Method or something similar. I definitely hope Autopilot can help more people have that experience.
Whenever I start the day off with meditation, the rest of it is amazing.
But i very rarely do that 🙃
Excited to try Autopilot and see if it can help.
@arwina_mogul1 Ooooh perfect! My co-founder and I are both students of the Tiny Habits framework (similar to atomic habits) and we built this product VERY much with that in mind. For example, we wanted everything to be possible to do in bite sized doses down to just one minute in length.
I totally love this concept, but I was just trying to download it on my iPhone to start right away and the 2 CTA didn't work for me :( looking forward to be able to check it out! Best, this is an awesomeeee idea!
@gd77 Ooh, sorry to hear you had trouble downloading it Grisel. As a workaround I think you could search for "Autopilot Flows" in the App Store and install it directly.
You should let people discover other peoples’ flows, it would be a nice a social aspect which allows fills the app with user generated content
@sam_alexander1 Yeah! Definitely interested in doing this when we reach critical mass. Can you imagine some flows you want to share with the world?
@zencephalon not off the top of my head! Out of interest, what stack did you build the apps with?
@sam_alexander1 we built this with React Native and we've got a sweet Github Actions system setup using Expo's new EAS service so we have CI/CD with over-the-air updates and build submissions (only required if we make changes to native dependencies) and overall I feel really blessed to see how far the ecosystem has evolved since I started working in mobile apps. (Contents slightly copy-pasted, sorry!)
@sam_alexander1 Haha, you're the second person to say that so I'll definitely consider it. ;)
Hey I just downloded app. Even when I exit my phone says app still plays a sound. But it doesnt. Can you check it
@begum_bayram Thanks for trying our app! Is that on Android? We play some "silence" in the background so our app can still give you instructions if you lock your phone, but it sounds like the process doesn't get cleaned up correctly. I'll look into it.
I'm sure this can be motivating for people wanting to set their own morning routine, to actually have someone (or something) accompanying you in your rituals. And adding a feature that shows you other examples of good habits is a great idea. Good job!
@rubenwolff I hope you find that it helps you and let us know how we can better achieve that vision through new features and fixes as we go along!
I am really excited about Autopilot, guys.
Went through the default flows. It's solving what I tried to do with Notion in a much more convienent way.
I am off creating custom flows. I'm curious how the app will go.
Cheers and good luck!
Edit: You might want to look into the "Create a flow" UI. I didn't realise clicking the back was saving the flow to home. Now, I've got several random flows in my overview. 😅
@geffrey Thank you for the feedback on the builder, it's definitely very aggressive about creating those flows. Hopefully you've found how to delete the random flows. 🙃
Yoo, if you win the morning, the day is already won!!
I will definitely give this a try! Congrats on the launch!
I wonder if Autopilot can integrate with routines from other apps; for example, I use Nike Training club every (ish) morning, and then timer to meditate
@nifeoluyemi Yes yes 110% on your first point. Let us know how it goes, if there are particular integrations you think would be great, we'd definitely love to hear about it. I also use Down Dog to work out (and some times just autopilot) and sometimes Insight timer for meditation (and again, sometimes just autopilot now)
This is perfect! I wrote out my daily yoga & meditation routines in the morning but it's super annoying to read while doing my morning routines. Having a voice with set timers makes it way easier. Downloading now!
@itschristinehong So happy to hear you've made yoga flows. I'd love to convert some of the Youtube videos I like into Autopilot. As much as I love Youtube the whole distracting experience of it just doesn't belong in my morning.
Really promising! The idea of having a continual flow of habits, without having to check the app to see progress, reduces the resistance that I currently face - having to continually open different apps for meditation, stretches etc, then having to open my habit tracker to tick them off.
This looks like a good replacement.
@zakatkinson Thank you for the bug report Zak! I'll get that turned around for you!
I am so so excited for this product. For me 2020 was about recognizing how much life pulls you in a million directions, but absent all those distractions you can truly live your best life by being intentional. Life is returning to normal, and I can already feel myself again being stretched thin, tired, and unintentional about how I spend my time. Autopilot is all about helping me at my most intentional and self directed decide how future, tired, lazy me will spend his time. This is a product that is truly going to unlock life for so many people - very proud to cheer it on from the sidelines.
@zan2434 Love this reflection Zain! Using Autopilot as a precommitment device has helped me a ton and I hope to keep reducing the friction as I build out more of the platform technology.
@the_esc Congratulations on your launch! Excited to give it a try tomorrow. BTW, had a problem initially finding it in the apple app store until I entered "autopilot morning" instead of "autopilot"
@perkins_l Thanks for letting me know! Yes we are brand new so still not surfacing for just "autopilot" If you like the app and want to leave us an app store review, this will help us become a result for the plain term "autopilot"
Evan this is amazing! After lucid dreaming app and newdayplanner. I love this and much needed for yogic morning centering routine esp when you are not living in an ashram unf! I have ideas :-)
@zurgun Love that way of conceptualizing it! I want the first few hours of my day to feel like living in a zendo or dojo. :)
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