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Stop blaming willpower. Retry is a habit tracker and to-do app that logs daily check-ins and reveals your failure patterns after 7 days — part productivity app, part mystery game.
Hello Product Hunt community!
I'm the creator behind retry.
To be honest, this project started from a completely blank page in my life. Not long ago, my plans to relocate to Germany fell through, and the future I had envisioned suddenly disappeared. Sitting back at my desk, staring at my editor, the word I use every day as a developer kept flashing in my mind: retry.
So, I decided to build.
retry is a habit tracker wrapped in a detective mystery game.
The Core Loop: Instead of just checking off boring boxes, you log your daily habits to unlock clues and piece together a crime file.
AI-Validated Cases: To keep the content high-quality and logically sound, I designed an automated pipeline where Gemini and Claude work in tandem—one generates the mystery, and the other rigorously plays and validates the solution.
No Friction: It is built as a PWA (Progressive Web App). Just add it to your mobile home screen to get push notifications—no App Store downloads required.
The app is completely free to use for now (no payments integrated yet). We also have a waitlist set up inside for premium episodes, and we are working hard to translate and expand our English content library.
I would absolutely love to hear your raw feedback:
-How does the detective theme feel for a productivity app?
-What kind of mystery themes or habit categories would you like to see next?
Thank you so much for being a part of my "retry." Let's crack this case together! 🕵️♂️
honestly love the mystery angle, it's such a clever hook for a habit tracker. one thing though, you should let users tag what triggered a failed check-in, like bad sleep or stress, so the pattern reveal after 7 days actually shows you the why behind the what.
The seven-day mystery mechanic is such a clever hook, turning habit tracking into something you actually want to come back to. Whoever decided to frame missed check-ins as clues instead of guilt trips clearly gets how people actually behave.
the framing of failure as a pattern to decode instead of something to beat yourself up over is such a smart reframe, and surfacing it after exactly a week feels like the right dose of delay before the insight actually lands.
The failure pattern reveal after 7 days sounds genuinely clever, would love to see you add a weekly recap card that compares my streaks across different habits so I can spot which ones I keep abandoning on the same day of the week.
After a week of daily check-ins I got a breakdown showing I skip workouts every Wednesday morning, which was honestly a little too accurate. The mystery angle keeps me curious enough to actually open it.
The failure pattern angle is genuinely interesting, but seven days feels long to wait for the payoff. What if the app surfaced a small "hint" after day two or three, like noticing you skip mornings on days you sleep in, just enough to keep you hooked while the full picture builds out.
Retry was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #114 on the daily leaderboard. Stop blaming willpower. Retry is a habit tracker and to-do app that logs daily check-ins and reveals your failure patterns after 7 days — part productivity app, part mystery game.
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