Hey Everyone! We’ve been on a quest to figure out how we could build an app to give us reliably awesome days. We quickly realized that the key to a great day was a great morning. Amazing - so if we could just nail our mornings, the rest of the day would be excellent too? Yes, but there’s a catch. While it was easy to dream up a perfect morning routine, actually doing it often didn’t go as planned when the morning rolled around. We found ourselves crawling out of bed with low motivation levels, and getting off to a great start was a struggle. We wondered if mornings would be easier if we built an app that would literally tell us what to do, out loud, every single step of the way. TLDR; it worked. All we need to do is press play, and our customized morning coach is leading us through the routine we previously committed to. Autopilot has already helped us a lot, but it’s very much a work in progress. There’s nothing we’d value more than your feedback on how we can make this tool helpful in your life. Thank you so much for checking out Autopilot! Evan P.S. A note on privacy, data-ownership, and advertising. Our ethos as a team is to give you total control and ownership over any data you produce while using our products. Autopilot V1 is a completely offline experience. There are no user accounts and all data you generate exists only on your phone’s local storage. We do have Google Analytics in place to understand the metrics of how people are using the app. We believe deeply in attention ownership and don’t think advertisers ought to be able to buy a slice of your precious attention without your consent. Therefore, our product is currently free and ad-free, but we are a business and will seek non-ad solutions to monetization in the future, possibly via subscription or paid premium features.

@zencephalon @the_esc Nice! Also noticed your company named.. Black Lotus Inc.. y'all are MTG nerds? If so, down to play some Arena with you guys! Looking forward to using your app!

i've recently have been looking for something just like this (setting up mornings in my handwritten journal hasn't really been cutting it), so im really glad i stumbled upon this. excited to try it out, especially with the crazy days here in taipei!

I am really excited about Autopilot, guys. Went through the default flows. It's solving what I tried to do with Notion in a much more convienent way. I am off creating custom flows. I'm curious how the app will go. Cheers and good luck! Edit: You might want to look into the "Create a flow" UI. I didn't realise clicking the back was saving the flow to home. Now, I've got several random flows in my overview. 😅

Really promising! The idea of having a continual flow of habits, without having to check the app to see progress, reduces the resistance that I currently face - having to continually open different apps for meditation, stretches etc, then having to open my habit tracker to tick them off. This looks like a good replacement.

Have yall read Manna by Brian Marshall? This reminds me of the AI in that short story except instead of our manager hijacking our brain to make us work more, our best self hacks our brain to make our lives better. I just switched from an early morning call schedule to a late night schedule here in Taipei so I'm excited to build out my morning flow with autopilot!

I love the concept and, in practice, it's amazing too! The UX is great and I can't wait to use my first "build" tomorrow morning :) My only question is: how can I have my build get triggered automatically after turn off my alarm in the morning?

Awesome! Love the idea of having "reliably awesome days." Very excited to do that with Autopilot :)

Whenever I start the day off with meditation, the rest of it is amazing. But i very rarely do that 🙃 Excited to try Autopilot and see if it can help.

Will try it in the next morning:) Video is very cool!

Your life on Autopilot! Just got a chance to play & this is an incredible experience - really digging the crux of designing & going through "flows." Keeps me in a state of flow, heh.

It’s been crazy helpful for me. I am WILD AS HELL and struggle to have any sort of routine in my life, this product and it’s predecessor made so easy. Now I meditate and do breathwork every morning and make myself custom meditations as well with it. Keep going dudes!

OH YEP. I had done this manually with alarms on my phone a few years back and found it insanely effective. The only problem is if I wanted to change my wake up time, I'd have to mess with ~10 alarms, and I didn't want to do that. But I _loved_ it, and it was on the shortlist of apps I wanted to build next. Excited to try it out!

Gahh! Over the last 1.5 years I've literally been iterating on my morning routine..It's now a mix of notion templates, spreadsheets and a bunch of different apps. The best feeling is when you don't have to consciously 'think' about your routine because your systems help you get through it every damn day! I CAN'T WAIT TO TRY THIS OUT!

I am so so excited for this product. For me 2020 was about recognizing how much life pulls you in a million directions, but absent all those distractions you can truly live your best life by being intentional. Life is returning to normal, and I can already feel myself again being stretched thin, tired, and unintentional about how I spend my time. Autopilot is all about helping me at my most intentional and self directed decide how future, tired, lazy me will spend his time. This is a product that is truly going to unlock life for so many people - very proud to cheer it on from the sidelines.

Wow I can think of so many ways I would use this 🔥

Evan this is amazing! After lucid dreaming app and newdayplanner. I love this and much needed for yogic morning centering routine esp when you are not living in an ashram unf! I have ideas :-)

This is exactly what I've been looking for! I already have a pretty good morning routine but it takes a bit too much time. I've tried to fix this this with time boxing apps but they don't really do the job. I'm very keen on trying this out tomorrow morning. :) One improvement suggestion / question to the ?makers: I would love to be able to rearrange the flows on the main screen (My Flows). Any plans on that? This way I could arrange my morning flows as I wish since I've planned 4 longer flows to be executed in a row. Or potentially link flows together and have them automated as a chain of flows (maybe a paid feature in the future?). I wish you guys all the best. PS. There is also a marketing automation tool called Autopilot (autopilothq.com). So it might be worth of considering updating the name to something like "Routine Autopilot" or something.

This seems like a great way to help people use their phones in the morning in a constructive way! I've gone on autopilot so many times to check social media, email, etc but I'm excited that now I can go on Autopilot and start my day off with healthy habits :)

I'm sure this can be motivating for people wanting to set their own morning routine, to actually have someone (or something) accompanying you in your rituals. And adding a feature that shows you other examples of good habits is a great idea. Good job!