Lifify - Simplify Your Life

I built Lifify to cure my burnout. Lifify turns chaos into clarity—map your goals, unlock wins, and get that euphoric ‘I know what to do next’ feeling. Lifify—simplify your life.

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Inspiration

Burnout isn’t a buzzword for me; It was a daily reality.

I am running two live service browser FPS games, freelancing, writing a memoir, and trying to be present for my wife and 3 kids. I felt like I was giving up on my dreams, trying to be "realistic"/"responsible" about what I could actually accomplish. I have to check emails, use project management tools, update projects, community management, etc;

I tried productivity software, jira, trello, etc and while great at mapping individual projects, still just added 1 more thing to think of managing each day PLUS zero emotional payoff. They were mostly designed for programmers and tech - but they had the basic idea; I thought, what If I could take what I liked from these but map my life instead.

I needed something simple that would turn anxiety/depression into action, so I built the planner I couldn’t find. Lifify, a tool some may call a productivity planner but I call a life mapper - as it was designed with 1 goal and 1 goal only - simplify life.

I now have tasks on my Lifify telling me to go update Jira. 😅

What it does

  • Maps your mind: Borrowed from tech, Drag-and-drop Kanban boards let's you capture raw ideas, then convert them into goals, tasks, and subtasks.

  • Schedules your week: Optionally map your tasks into a 24-hour timetable; Track focused work, rest, and real life in one place and see conflicts - if any;

  • Rewards momentum: Borrowed from my game dev experience; A built-in reward engine lets you setup reward pools which lets you receive lootbox style rewards for completing tasks or goals.

  • Archiving moves finished goals into custom vaults so today stays uncluttered.

  • Security: Optional cloud storage – LocalStorage plus one-click export/import means you can map your life without thought of who's looking - its your life afterall.

How we built it

  • Built primary using bolt.new, a powerful piece of software; My experience in programming, UI/UX of course was essential in mapping out what I was trying to do.
  • My wife and kids also played a role, meeting their usage expectations was crucial in driving its simplicity and my epic goal of trying make her library of physical planners obsolete, helped;

Challenges we ran into

  • A lot of time was spent brainstorming how to map one's life in a way that immediately results in "I got this" once you see it, easier said than done.
  • Decision fatigue: Balancing my “power user” flexibility with the simplicity my burned-out self craved.
  • Motivation design – Gamifying productivity without going overboard was crucial.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • The concept and idea itself started as a dream but bolt.new proves that AI usage is severely mis-understood. I would never be able to put together somethign like this in such a short period of time. As a game dev, naturally, I have some understanding of programming, web dev, etc. Bolt.new really filled in the gaps, allowing me to focus on what mattered most: DESIGN and UX; If only I had such a tool for game dev - I also tried other AI app builders, they all flopped.

What we learned

Build the tool you need, and you’ll likely solve a need for others too.

What's next for Lifify - Simplify Your Life

  • Energy tagging – Mark tasks as draining or energizing and visualize weekly energy balance.
  • Make physical planners obsolete 😈
  • AI voice recognition: Narrating goals and tasks and hearing rewards fire off sounds epic.
  • Syncing with third party tools like google calendar and notification services;

Built With

  • bolt
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