-Lestinaty

Lestinaty

What inspired me

I wanted to build a productivity app that felt less like checking boxes and more like making progress in something that actually belongs to you.

Most habit and productivity apps represent progress through numbers, streaks, and checklists. I wanted to make that progress feel tangible and alive.

That idea became Lestinaty: a world that grows as you grow.

Every habit can become a seed. As you stay consistent, it grows through different stages, and completing a habit creates a visual moment of progress. Instead of simply seeing that I completed something, I wanted to feel that I had changed my world.

What I learned

Building Lestinaty taught me that creating a product is much more than implementing features.

I learned to think about how individual interactions connect into a larger experience. A habit is not just a checkbox—it can become part of a routine, a task, a path, or eventually a larger goal.

I also learned how important visual consistency is. Lestinaty contains a large collection of custom visual assets, so I had to develop a consistent visual language for trees, icons, maps, animations, and UI elements.

Most importantly, I learned to design around a feeling rather than a feature list: I want users to feel that their progress is building something.

How I built it

I built Lestinaty as a mobile-first productivity experience centered around visual progression.

The current experience focuses on habits, with each habit connected to a unique visual element that grows as the user maintains it. The app also includes a visual world, customizable themes, a collection/shop system, reminders, and in-app purchases powered by RevenueCat.

OneSignal handles scheduled habit reminders, allowing each habit to have its own reminder.

I designed and created the visual system myself, including the voxel-inspired trees, environments, icons, growth stages, and other UI assets.

The architecture is also evolving beyond habits. The next modules I am building are Tasks and Routines, with the longer-term vision of connecting goals, paths, routines, habits, and tasks into one system for personal growth.

The challenges

One of the biggest challenges was balancing creativity with usability.

It is easy to keep adding visual elements, animations, and systems because there are so many possibilities. The challenge was deciding what actually improves the experience and what simply adds complexity.

Another challenge was creating a large visual system while keeping everything consistent. Every tree, icon, environment, and UI element needed to feel like it belonged to the same world.

I also had to design the product around a very small team: essentially, me building the product from the idea to the visual design, development, integrations, and App Store submission.

That constraint forced me to prioritize what mattered most and build the experience step by step.

What’s next

Lestinaty is still evolving.

I want to expand the system from habits into routines and tasks, and eventually connect them through goals and paths. The long-term vision is for Lestinaty to help people turn something they want to achieve into a system of actions they can actually follow—and then make that progress visible.

Instead of simply telling you that you are making progress, Lestinaty lets you see it grow.

Grow your habits. Grow your world