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Autopilot — Your perfect morning, every morning
contact: hello@blacklotus.ooo
Turn your morning routine into a step-by-step guided audio flow.
Comes with founder faves like: 1 min workouts, gratitude, tooth brushing, and goal setting.
Edit these activities or create your own to build your perfect morning.
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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!
@davefontenot Haha, yes! Actually Zain recommend it to me and the first part of it felt like ultra-near future sci-fi. ;)
@zencephalon wow just used it this morning here in taipei. that is a gamechanger. i so often go to bed with a plan for the morning and then i wake up and snooze until my first meeting and then play the rest of my day on defense. this morning, i woke up to my first alarm, opened autopilot and I feel like I won the day before my meetings even started. made it so easy to actually have a morning routine.
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.
@zan2434 Love this reflection Zain! Using Autopilot as a precommitment device has helped me a ton and I hope to keep reducing the friction as I build out more of the platform technology.
@pattyjburns Thanks Patrick! Also Commons looks potentially amazing for our distributed team, I want to try it out. :D
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!
@dan_francisco_ Thank you so much Daniel! Very excited to see what you think of this and what feedback you have to make it killer.
@sudotong I'd love to hear some examples if you feel willing to share! It'd really help us out. :)
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.
@kingsongchen One of our users made a nature appreciation flow, almost like a guide to how to really look at a tree and observe all the details. I've got a pretty involved flow for my martial arts practice. Skin care routines with a lot of steps surprised me a lot, since I don't know much about that area.
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.
@the_esc Guys, you have built something great! There are not many health startups these days. I love the Autopilot morning routines and meditation approach. Branding is awesome also - faded-out retro colors are nice. I think you should add the WIM HOFF breathing technique and cold showers options for advanced users.
P.s. Imao, you should work on the Autopilot logo, it is really generic and falls behind the main identity great style.
@the_esc @stanui Adding Wim Hoff style breathing seems like a great idea! We could probably use guidance in this area, we've felt wary of infringing other people's IP when it comes to creating flows. I'd flow to partner with people like Wim Hoff and get their official seal of approval.
Thanks for the note about our logo! Let us know if you know any great designers, we definitely don't have design backgrounds, hah.
@the_esc @zencephalon You can IMPROVE logo today following 3 SIMPLE TIPS:
- Use more bright colors in the logo. Don't use basic colors like white and black, they are dull (except you have an ultra-concept sign design)
- If Using the first letter of your brand name "A", add some unique graphic trait to it, connecting with your app concept idea. So users can remember the sign and associate your app with the logo instantly.
- Better divide brand name for beater reading, e.g. AutoPilot except for Autopilot
@the_esc Congratulations on your launch! Excited to give it a try tomorrow. BTW, had a problem initially finding it in the apple app store until I entered "autopilot morning" instead of "autopilot"
@perkins_l Thanks for letting me know! Yes we are brand new so still not surfacing for just "autopilot" If you like the app and want to leave us an app store review, this will help us become a result for the plain term "autopilot"
@jelveh Thank you so much. I learned design from scratch to do this one. Only done backend dev before.
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. 😅
@geffrey Thank you for the feedback on the builder, it's definitely very aggressive about creating those flows. Hopefully you've found how to delete the random flows. 🙃
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!
LOL @amandaemmanuel I feel your pain so hard from having done similar. I had a crazy system like @dan_francisco_ at one point.
Wow! That's what I need. Great job! I can't wait when I try it 🖤
Congratulations!
@peteliev So glad to hear it Yevhenii. Let us know how it goes for you and if you have a chance, send us your feedback to feedback@blacklotus.ooo
Nice Evan. Took me a while to get my morning routine to stick, but the trick was doing the same thing immediately out of bed and gradually increasing the intensity. The voiceover is cool and reminds me of products that try to give you a "morning brief" of news, weather and podcasts. I think Spotify and Alexa have those features. Maybe this could be a wedge into introducing morning content.
@rickyyean Nice Ricky! Sounds like U intuitively learned the Tiny Habits Method or something similar. I definitely hope Autopilot can help more people have that experience.
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