"Independent Development Diary 5: Created a Lightweight Task Tool Because I No Longer Want to Use ToDo"

Personal Life

This week, I went to Pattaya with friends to eat lamb and seafood. Overall, while it wasn't as delicious as in China, it was still quite good. Compared to many places in Bangkok, it was already very nice. We mainly went to a local restaurant that required an hour of waiting, but it wasn't as tasty as we had imagined, possibly because they were overwhelmed and couldn't keep up with the demand, leading to a decline in food quality.

This week, I adjusted my schedule (I haven't been drinking lately) and restored my habit of going to bed early and waking up early. The next step is to get back to working out, as I've gained quite a bit of weight recently.

I plan to start updating my public account weekly. Recently, my Twitter followers finally surpassed a thousand, which makes me feel pretty good.

Product Updates

StickerAI

This week, we added a small feature update, which was completed using Claude Code and has a high level of completion. The main reason for this was that I noticed the generated stickers might have transparency issues, particularly with the eyes being the most obvious. This feature is available when launching on Line, but the WeChat platform does not provide it, so I made a small optimization.

PromptPlan

After some time of refinement, it has finally been released. However, there were some minor issues with the online configuration, wasting some traffic, and there were many strange bugs. After a lot of troubleshooting, it was resolved. Many users have asked about the iOS, Windows, and Web versions, and some users submitted orders without completing payment.

Here, I would like to explain why we developed this product. Most people have probably used traditional to-do lists, but the biggest problem with them is that they don't provide much motivation for ordinary people to complete tasks. This leads us to expect ourselves to be perfectly disciplined, but after listing many tasks, we find that they all expire, which can be particularly anxiety-inducing when looking at a pile of overdue tasks.

Additionally, most people lack a concept of prioritizing tasks, such as which tasks should be prioritized and which are important. Most tasks can be completed within a certain timeframe; if something really needs to be done today, it doesn't even need to be on the list—we can just do it directly.

So, if we leverage AI, can we have it tell us how long it might take to complete tasks, their priority, and the reasons for that priority? Through this, can we better focus on what we need to do? We just need to input what we want to do, and then AI will automatically help us plan it into our current list.

The product looks like this, with an information input box. I had considered many product forms, such as creating a chat interface similar to GPT, but then I thought that if we need to communicate repeatedly, it would go against our original design. I hope to create a lightweight product for recording, so complex planning is handled internally. The MVP version is currently free, but we are adding a paid early bird price to test people's expectations for this new form of payment.

I also welcome everyone to communicate with me about everything related to independent development, and I encourage everyone to download and use my product 😄.