Capybara Daily Planner - CapyPlan

Inspiration

I loved planning as a child. My dad taught me to plan the day everyday on a piece of paper and then try to execute it. We call it the iron plan, but the execution always falls through...

But over the years I understood, it's the intention that matters. To approach your day intentionally is what it counts. I want to build a cosy, simple ,no-guilt planner that gives users the feeling of warm and trust, and displays no guilt even when users don't finish the planned tasks.

That's why I chose Capybara as the spirit animal for the app. Becasue capybara is the most chilled animal on earth, it just stays in the onsen and eats yuzu and never too happy or too sad. It just feels detached and just keeps working towards the goal.

What it does

Exisitng apps either doesn't allow you to see the day's timeline or too robotic like the github streak. Our CapyPlan is a cozy planner for big picture thinkers to help you approach your day with an intention but leaves no guilt if you can't finish it.

It allows you to

• Plan your day and put all your tasks into a task basket
• Drag and drop these tasks into your day's timeline (similar to Google Calendar). Move it around by drag and drop easily
• Tick the tasks or it rolls over quietly to the next day without guilt

We added handy features like

• Plan repeatable tasks
• Customise your snooze

How we built it

We built it by leveraging the code base of our exisiting apps, checking Apple's HIG to get inspired, using Cursor to vibe, and RevenueCat for the paywall experimentations.

Challenges we ran into

Repeatable tasks backend data structure. Getting the app out to the users. Understanding user feedbacks.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We got 70 downloads and 4 trials already in 3 days after launch! We got reviews on Reddit resonating with out philosophy of a no guilt calendar

What we learned

• Do the app research - see if the existing apps have a gap with what you think should exist. For us, existing apps don't have a timeline feature, or drag and drop feature, or too rigid, or doesn't have recurring task feature.
• The intention matters. Fundamentally, what problem are you trying to solve?
• Add paywall early to test users. Thanks to RevenueCat we can do this quickly.

What's next for Yellow Matcha

• Build the sync feature with Android too using Firestore backend.
• Make the app more responsive: add haptic feedback
• Add the focus timer to allow user to focus on a task
• Add more customisation (e.g. user can customise the task length pad based on their needs)
• Add alarm clocks to by pass the notifications for critical tasks

Built With

• revenuecat
• swift
• swiftdata