Harold 2.0 — A quirky SMS bot that helps you stick with your habits 💪

Hey congrats on adding these features Kyleigh. What I most like is the minimal typeform entry. Curious how does it work if you have multiple habits does the stats get aggregated or just for each one separately?

Harold's great, I signed up for updates about 6 months ago I think, congrats for delivering it! As far as habit trackers go I think this is the way to do it! Did you have a mascot/icon of someone as the logo at some point or is my mind playing tricks on me? I was curious about what tools you used to built it. Would love to know more about what's behind Harold!

Hi Product Hunters! A lot has happened since I launched Harold on Product Hunt EXACTLY one year ago today: - Over 800 people have joined the waitlist - 440 people have created accounts - 221 have successfully onboarded and set up habits - Harold has logged over 9.5k responses 😱 - 23 signed up for a paid plan - Reached over $60 in MRR (my first $’s made on the internet!) - Presented at ODNC Demo Day - Won $5k Product Hunt Maker Grant - Presented at ODNC Demo Day And Harold has changed a lot too (thanks to feedback from my beta users!): ⚡️AI-Generated Responses 📅 Customized Day + Time of Check-ins 🎨 New Logo + Branding 🐣 7-day Free Trial 📈 SMS Recaps ✏️ Improved Edit Habit Flow 😻 Custom Emoji's for Each Habit 💪 Support for 3 Question Types ⛰ Milestones + Tips A lot has changed but the mission is still the same: **Help people experience the benefits of tracking habits.** I built Harold because I was feeling stuck. I had big goals but I felt like I wasn’t making any progress on them. I knew tracking habits was beneficial, but I couldn’t stick with tracking long enough to experience the benefits. I would track for 2 days and then forget to do it. So I built Harold to solve my own problem. And it worked. For the first time I was able to track consistently for 4 months straight. I built habits like: - working on my side projects for 30 minutes before work - exercising for at least 30 minutes a day - journaling before opening my computer in the morning Harold is for you if: - If you’ve ever tried to build a habit but fell off, forgot, or gave up. - You’ve never experienced the benefits of tracking habits consistently - You want to level up in a mindful, effective way - You tend to ignore push notifications + hate downloading another app and creating another login Start your free trial at [heyitsharold.com](http://heyitsharold.com) and let me know what you think! DM’s are always open on Twitter.

@kyleighsmith Wow, Harold is an amazing mechanism to track your habits in a super easy way!! Not sure what I'd do without him?? Thanks Kyleigh for creating such a well thought through product that I know will help a ton of fellow makers and creators. Let's go!!

Refreshing to see the return of a habit tracker app that is celebrating it's launch birthday because it is just that good at helping you keep your habits and also so meta that Kyleigh's been consistent and intentional about building and iterating to give a fresh new edition for 2022! Still a fan of the SMS idea - it's like a friend is checking in on me and I feel even more accountable. Kudos on the launch!

With this name, I HAVE to upvote it 💯 One day, I hope to become just as structured as this Harold. Great product @kyleighsmith 🙌

Been following Kyleigh's journey with Harold since v1 and love to see how far it's gotten! Habits are the foundational element of success and Harold is an easy way to get started and stay accountable on that journey 💯

New feature alert! 🚨 You can now "quick start" by selecting from a list of popular habit https://twitter.com/bagelsangran...

Glad to see such a powerful usecase built on Typeform. I love NoCode too. I really see a lot of scope to build it as a gamified premium product as there is already good demand as per your last years launch and again this year. Amazing to read your progress. I have a suggestion for you, if you could try to bring this messages on whatsapp then this could spread and grow like fire. Whatsapp has more flexibility in terms of message formats you can send with buttons to capture response. I really hope this could help you take the operations of Harold globally without the barrier of the sms constraints. I do have some suggestions i would like to demo and help you with building this further. I really love what you are doing Kyleigh. I would be more than happy to chat and see if i can help you in any way(calendly link in my profile section) talk to you, Cheers 🍻

Love to see people build products that solve their own problems. This has improved a lot from v1. Loving the GIFs.

It's been awesome seeing Harold grow and grow! I'm sure it'll help a lot of people keep their New Year's resolutions. Congratulations on the launch!

I've been using Harold for a few months and am loving the daily reminders at 8PM. Nothing gets me off my butt quicker to do my daily pushups than the text reminder from Harold. (Except for the times where I keep sitting on my butt and Harold sends a witty response to motivate and encourage me anyway.)

Is (like me) SMS is consistently top 3 in your screen time report? If so, establishing habits through text message should be a no brainer. Harold is a simple, yet powerful hack to track and measure personal or professional habits. I'm excited to see what 2.0 has in store.

Such a cool idea! Congratz!! 🎉 Today I also launched my product. If you're using Discord. You can easily add live chat to your web page(WebChatWidget)

hi @kyleighsmith wow i stumble on Harold, this is ex-act-ly what I need ! Buuuuut... i am French and leave in France.... pleeeease could you prioritize international phone numbers ? In the same "internationalization" move, it would be great that Harold answers in French so that I may interact in my own language, not in English, which would feel very less natural, and so be less incitative to carry on with my habits ;-)

Harold is a personality that inspires me to set goals for each day and actually do them. He's not intrusive and not judgmental. He's encouraging and I look forward to my text from him each evening. He is easy to set up, use, and change. I have now learned what "habit stacking" is. So great.

Cute idea! I like the idea of sending messages vs just an app!

I love this service and have been using it for almost a year, congrats on 2.0!

So happy to see this launched here!!!! I used a very early version, and Kayleigh has made some incredible upgrades since then. I really believe this is the future of apps, everyone I’ve talked to says they are exhausted of every company/store/thing having an app, and the beauty of Harold is there’s nothing to install. Excited to try the new version! Congrats on the launch!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Overcome Procrastination with your tracking habits. Congrats on the launch !