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Hey HN, I'm Marc. It's unreal how game features like quests can get us to play for hours to earn some gold (WoW dailies anyone?) What if we use these hacks to

Hey HN, I'm Marc. It's unreal how game features like quests can get us to play for hours to earn some gold (WoW dailies anyone?) What if we use these hacks to do things that are good for us, like working out or reading a book? That's why I created Habits Garden: To help you form habits while having fun. How does it work? 1. Create your habits 2. Complete dailies to earn some gems 3. Buy flowers to grow a wonderful garden 4. Be consistent to unlock special/unique flowers 5. Visit your friends' gardens to see their progress (coming soon) I hope it will work for you as well as it does for me and other users. If you have any good or bad feedback, I have no ego, be straight-forward :)

ZeroGravitas 5y ago
Is there any good sources on why these things work? Like I saw a condolences card that someone made for a colleague that lost his wordle streak. What's actually going on there in that person's brain, why do they view this as a loss to be mourned or a failure while happily ignoring other things that may be healthier options?
- hackernewds 5y ago
  Streaks. I use a really good habit tracking app (not going to steal poster's thunder here again) which is based on streaks. Has helped me at least maintain and build habits due to the loss aversion of some arbitrary streaks!
  - ZeroGravitas 5y ago
    Yeah, but why do we like being consistent? Does this mean that you could give up smoking faster of you intentionally 'broke your streak' of bad stuff? Can you train yourself to have an arbitrary tic like touching the top of a doorframe every time you walk through using the same system?
  - marclou 5y ago
    Which app do you use that's good for streaks? Habits Garden has also a streak counter per habit and you can achieve special quests for maintaining your streak for xyz days :)
    - jchook 5y ago
      There's one called "Streaks" for iOS that I use.
    - xenodium 5y ago
      I built one for iOS https://flathabits.com https://flathabits.com
      - marclou 5y ago
        It looks great! I like the simplicity of it
        xenodium 5y ago
        Thank you =)
_bfhp 5y ago
It takes too much scrolling to see an end result of all the habits. Put a preview of someone's sick 6-months-in-the-works garden close to the top, that's what I'd sign up for. Loot boxes you can buy with gems offering limited time flowers would be a hit I think

ZeroGravitas 5y ago

Is there any good sources on why these things work? Like I saw a condolences card that someone made for a colleague that lost his wordle streak. What's actually going on there in that person's brain, why do they view this as a loss to be mourned or a failure while happily ignoring other things that may be healthier options?

hackernewds 5y ago
Streaks. I use a really good habit tracking app (not going to steal poster's thunder here again) which is based on streaks. Has helped me at least maintain and build habits due to the loss aversion of some arbitrary streaks!
- ZeroGravitas 5y ago
  Yeah, but why do we like being consistent? Does this mean that you could give up smoking faster of you intentionally 'broke your streak' of bad stuff? Can you train yourself to have an arbitrary tic like touching the top of a doorframe every time you walk through using the same system?
- marclou 5y ago
  Which app do you use that's good for streaks? Habits Garden has also a streak counter per habit and you can achieve special quests for maintaining your streak for xyz days :)
  - jchook 5y ago
    There's one called "Streaks" for iOS that I use.
  - xenodium 5y ago
    I built one for iOS https://flathabits.com https://flathabits.com
    - marclou 5y ago
      It looks great! I like the simplicity of it
      - xenodium 5y ago
        Thank you =)

_bfhp 5y ago

It takes too much scrolling to see an end result of all the habits. Put a preview of someone's sick 6-months-in-the-works garden close to the top, that's what I'd sign up for. Loot boxes you can buy with gems offering limited time flowers would be a hit I think