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Angstrom.Life — Don't manage projects. Manage your life.
Angstrom is different from other task or project management tools because it puts your life goals at the center of everything. Once you've decided what is important in your life. It will help you dominate those goals!
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Jacques van Heerden
This might be better than all my notebook tracking I've been doing and the added functions of Trello. Congrats on the launch, tell me about your data security angle?
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@jacquesvh Thanks so much! Glad you like it. All your data is secured by Google Firebase. Ping me an email at kelvin@angstrom.life and I'll go into as much detail as you would like.
Ohh this looks like it was taken directly out of my brain. I love it! So excited to try it out!
@lolatesla Thanks so much Lola! I promise, I didn't steal it from your brain :)
@kelvinangstrom okay here are my notes so far:
I'm really looking forward to the app versions so it can alert me to start my routines at the designated time and also keep me focused on the deadlines I set for myself.
On the hierarchy page, it would be nice to have the ability to sort goals based on their importance.
On the backlog page, I would like to only see tasks. This would force me to break down projects into smaller manageable tasks.
Also, it would probably useful to give some guidance on what constitutes a task vs a project vs a milestone, etc. i.e. a task is something you can complete within a day, a project is an accumulation of those tasks and should probably have a deadline in the next few months, a milestone within the next year, etc?
I love this so much and it was worth every penny! Definitely one of my favorite products I have come across on Product Hunt so far.
@lolatesla Hey Lola! Great feedback! And I'm so glad that you like it that much... I am going to do all of the items that you suggested above, because they just make sense!
Hey @kelvinangstrom
Wanted to submit this through the website, but nothing happens when I click on the Support button.
I started a 60 minute timer today to work on a project and after 60 minutes I went back to the angstrom tab and it said I still had 24 minutes left. What do you think could be causing this?
@lolatesla Hi Lola! Very sorry about that. Could you send me an email to kelvin@angstrom.life? I need to ask you a few questions about your setup.
Very nice! Current lifetime offer includes future updates / functions or is ther upsells down the road? Don't have time to check everything and if it fits but I like what I see. As a one man show I feel at home. Congratulations!!
@ajoscoa Thanks António! Really good question and something I have had a few emails about today. Which means I did a really bad job explaining it. You will always get all of the functionality that the $49 / year subscribers get.
In the future (and this is probably not going to happen), there might be "super premium features" like one-on-one coaching or a real human reviewing your goals with you, that won't be included to lifetime or yearly subscribers. They would separate one-off payments.
@kelvinangstrom few suggestions:
- monthly recurring feature or maybe a more flexible way to implement it
- disable / enable levels from the backlog. It doesn't make much sense to me having milestones and life goals mixed up with tasks on that kanban. Same for priority.. for me would make sense tasks in kanban and projects in priority. It would be nice to choose.
- a calendar of schedule tasks and a timeline would be another nice features.
- It would be nice to have some feature to export a data backup
Overall you did a fantastic job. Amazing what you did alone. Super kudos to you man!
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Cheers Desmond! Do let me know what your thoughts are when you do. Feedback is crucial for me. It's the main reason for posting here on PH.
@kelvinangstrom I've noticed that the 'minutes estimated' timer behaves weirdly. First of all, it doesn't actually calculate minutes that well (e.g. 60 minutes actually translates to 1.1 hour). It would be useful if you could edit the number as well instead of clicking all the way to 45 if your task takes 45 mins. I think the most user friendly way would be for the timers to be in a 2h20m format
@desmondzik You're absolutely right. I really don't know why I did it that way :( I'll get on it tomorrow after the launch madness subsides. Any other thoughts or issues that you've noticed?
Hi Kevin, it looks great, and it feels like a very interesting tool to use, the onboarding chatbot is astounding...
Maybe I'm not smart enough to understand how to get the most of it, do you have any video to understand how is the use of the app for an average user will be very useful. I mean, it is not about how it works, it is about how to use it in the best way, did I explain myself?
@jc_haro Hi Juan, that's a really good idea! It will be a difficult video to make but I think it would be worth the effort...
Just playing around with it now, like the idea. Noticed if you change the level names, that on plan, the filters still say life goals, milestones etc... would make more sense for them to match your new level names
@darren_lock Hey Darren, they are meant to change. That's a bug. Very sorry about that. I've noted it and will deal with it. Thanks!
@kelvinangstrom great! just bought it, so committing to using it now, would be great if you set up some kind if roadmap/suggestions
@darren_lock Thanks so much Darren! I thought that I could get away with not having a roadmap for launch. I was wrong. I've had a bunch of emails from people asking about the roadmap. I only got as far as putting up a placeholder page, which was in the footer but I hid it yesterday. https://www.angstrom.life/roadmap/ I'll get on it soon.
Hi @kelvinangstrom
Firstly, congrats on your launch and well done for creating a new approach to time management. I do like your app and feel it solves a problem I have been facing.
One question, since you are a one-man operation, how committed are you to the product? I am just a little concerned if buying the lifetime plan that things might stop after some time.
@bimbisara_desh Thanks for the best wishes! Glad you like it so far.
And how committed am I is a great and very valid question. Let me break it down.
This is my first side-project, I haven't jumped between a dozen different ones in the past. One of my "Life goals" is to not have a 9-to-5 and truly work for myself. I would absolutely love to work on Angstrom full-time.
Ironically the fact that I do have a job makes this project a much safer bet than a VC backed startup. I don't need to generate $50k per month in order to make payroll (I've been in VC backed startups). If Angstrom only generated a couple of hundred bucks per month I would happily keep at it.
Today has changed my opinion on the viability of the project. I may not have very many upvotes compared to the other projects today but sales were amazing :) Not enough to quit work tomorrow but not very far off! It has hit a nerve with some people. I've been blown away by that.
Hope that answers your question!
@bimbisara_desh @kelvinangstrom , I saw Angstrom.life mentioned in an FB group discussion, checked out the site and was about 80% sold on the concept right then and there. The onboarding experience - very cool, casual and fun, BTW Kelvin - had me at 100% right then and there.
It breaks down Life Goals into bite-sized pieces and provides you a system to achieve them.
Pros:intuitive design with small learning curve, simple + focused structure, mood tracker, routine builder, graphs to visualise analytics data
Cons:no dekstop / mobile apps (but they are in development)
Probably causes some duplication with work tasks if using also Trello or GH issues at the same time?
Pros:Nice holistic approach on the life/work goals & tasks Good UX
Cons:It could be easier to find the "mark task as done" button. I finally found it :-)
I think that this app brings to the table a very different alternative in the task management sector, focusing on those who work alone and don't want to get distracted by team-driven features as it happens with tools like Asana and even Trello.
Pros:Tackles struggles that solopreneurs know well; allows keeping track of the bigger picture through goals; the onboarding bot is genius.
Cons:Nothing so far.
@kelvinangstrom Looks really nice! Well done brother. Does it integrate with Evernote, Google Drive, ...?
@rmtux Thanks Rami :) It's been a really enjoyable project for me.
I haven't made any decisions on integrations yet. I'll see what people want and follow their lead. I can see Google docs being a popular one. But I don't have enough data so far.
@kelvinangstrom Will be glad to help. Think mobile apps should be your next priority now. All the best :)
@kelvinangstrom @rmtux , I agree that mobile apps should be the next priority. Integration with Evernote, GDrive, and NoteJoy would be great though - that way we can link a lot more detail and material to specific tasks, projects and milestones. Perhaps even goals if you write out your "envisaged future" for them and link with photos, videos, etc.
This is very good. I've been annoyed by all collaboration features when looking at any management tool. I like this product that introduces zero collaboration as a concept. And it is a good insight that it'd be enabled to integrate user's career parts and personal parts because it has eliminated the collaboration part, and the attempt to actively use the insight is also impressive.
One thing I am sorry about is pricing. Is not there a monthly payment in the plan? (I ask because I have no money.)
@sungho Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Really appreciate it. My initial heading on the website was "Absolutely zero collaboration project management" because I did think that it was a strong differentiator and not having collaboration can be a plus in some circumstances. You won't ever fear that you might accidentally share your private life goals.
Did you have a look at the Ambassador plan? You can get all the features for free if you share with others.
@sungho @kelvinangstrom Yeah, and I dissuaded you from using that value prop, lol. I thought that one was pretty unclear for understanding what the product was about at a glance. Maybe it was a wrong call?
1. Just did the onboarding.. loved it :) screenshot: https://cl.ly/f39d78750b87 2. Intuitive user space 3. easy, simple hierarchy
Pros:1. Just did the onboarding.. loved it :) screenshot: https://cl.ly/f39d78750b87 2. Intuitive user space 3. easy, simple hierarchy
Cons:Let me get back
Hello @kelvinangstrom! Great job! Looks really promising! Hope this will be available as native app as well soon.
@_productgeek Hi Falko... Thanks very much! I have the Mac desktop app working pretty well already. I use it everyday myself. There is still a bit of work left to do though. It will be available for Mac, Windows and Linux. I wouldn't like to put an ETA on it just yet.
Do you mind if I ask how you felt about the onboarding? Others seem to have felt it was a bit much and others really liked it.
Hi @kelvinangstrom, I think the onboarding was niceley done. The only thing I'd change is to make it non-mandatory/skipable.
@krzesimir_ostrowski No they're not discounted when you login. There's a discount code at the top of the pricing page when you login. You apply that code during the checkout. Actually, here's the code if it's easier: "ProductHunt60"
@krzesimir_ostrowski BTW. If you have already paid and didn't see the discount code for whatever reason, I'll happily refund the difference.
@kelvinangstrom thanks a lot for clearing this up!
I might be doing something wrong, but I don't see this code anywhere in the pricing page or anywhere else in the settings.
@krzesimir_ostrowski Very sorry about that. I can't see a problem in general. I just checked and everyone that has purchased today has used the code. I will monitor it and proactively refund the difference to anyone that has the same problem as yourself.
I gotta say, I love this and would absolutely love to try it out, but it's quite expensive and the free trial doesn't offer much. I'm not sure if the users will be convinced by the minimal features that are included in the free trial. Nonetheless I'm definitely going to try it out soon. Nice work Kelvin!
@recon Thanks for the feedback Sam! There is a balance to be struck there with how much functionality to have in the free plan. I honestly don't know where the line should be yet.
What I did do though to somewhat address the cost was to add the "Ambassador plan". Did you see that? Basically you can get all features for free if you can get some friends to signup. Your friends all get a $10 discount if they decide to purchase for themselves.
@kelvinangstrom Oh I didn't realise it was just on signup, it seemed to me like they all had to purchase a plan. I'll definitely get some mates to join up while I'm having a look 👀. On the other hand, I agree, balancing a free accounts features is difficult, but for such a feature rich app like this I'd definitely add some of the more basic things to the plan, and possibly restrict some features (only so many habits can be done, routine can only be this long, etc).
Best of luck on the indiehacker path!
@recon Thanks Sam! I'll try and figure out how to clear up that confusion around the Ambassador plan. I'm sure there's a way.