project://cuckoo

Project

cuckoo

Cuckoo is a countdown timer with no stop button and a check-in button to capture when you've been distracted!

Genesis

I keep getting distracted during my meditations. I wanted a tool that will allow me to just observe that I've been distracted, check-in and resume my meditation.

Differentiators

There are three key product decisions I made that set it apart from other timers:

  1. There is no stop or pause button: this means that you have to complete the session that you have started, whether it is meditation, writing, or some other task.
  2. The differentiator is the "Check-in" button: when meditating, or writing, I often get distracted and change what I'm doing. Check-in allows me to capture when I was distracted, and come back gently to what I was working on, rather than switching tasks.
  3. No custom timers: The defaults - 8 timers from 5 minutes to 1 hour - should be enough for anyone.

Tech Learnings

(Yet to do) Get this working on mobile so that the timer doesn't stop when the screen closes.