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Y-Productive — Keep your work and distractions under control
Receive the real-time feedback about your work efficiency and the number of distractions.
Manage tasks, keep an eye on your performance and block distracting websites like Facebook, Reddit or Product Hunt to keep your unproductive habits under control.
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@praveenpoojary1 not so long ago we had 7-day trial and people were asking for 14 days :D
Incoginto mode is intended - in case you won't need the app to track your website usage. It's incognito, after all.
@alex_zhebryakov I can understand incognito thing. I said 21 days because I remember reading somewhere that after 21 days product becomes your habit so have to buy subscription after that :-p
@praveenpoojary1 oh I get it now! Thanks for the tip!
Do you remember the source of where you have read it?
@alex_zhebryakov I tried searching for the source but without any success. I am sorry. By the way I am facing one issue, If I click on close button when app is in fullscreen then screen becomes dark and it is happening only if app is in full screen mode.(I use mac book pro retina 2016)
@praveenpoojary1 thanks for the reply. We will look into it. Could you write us in chat so our devs could dig into it?
Hi PH! I am Alex.
In a first place, I’m a dad of a 2-year old son and a husband of a lovely wife.
And only then I’m a developer and a co-founder who spends all his work time with a laptop.
Every day, I want to finish my work on time, close that laptop and spend the evening with my family or have some rest.
It’s easier said than done. Did you ever notice how much distractions at our computer prevent us from reaching the goal?
Colleagues and friends ping every now and then;
Unplanned tasks ruin our schedule;
Facebook, YouTube, apps, and messengers spend budgets to develop features that will distract us for sure.
Now, you were so focused, and...
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Our willpower is just not enough to handle the technological pressure.
To improve, I need to know WHY the heck I visit Facebook or use that app for a half of an hour? Did it harm my productivity or was it work-related? In real-time, please.
RescueTime or the analogs aren’t enough here. They either put a pile of “good-to-know” stats without any context on my head or are just too difficult to get through the UI every day.
We aim to make Y-Productive a blend of the most useful features to track and improve your workflow.
I and my teammates use it every day. How is it said? “Eat your own dog food”, right? Here is my productivity chart preparing for the launch for example:
We spent a good year in a beta polishing the app so I hope to hear what you think about it.
Let me know your thoughts or questions about Y-Productive!
P.S. don't forget to use the promo code: MEOWPRODUCTIVE on a pricing page (wink)(wink)
P.P.S. What's your opinion about the app? Maybe the field to improve or add new features? Would be glad to hear your thoughts, people!
Our willpower is just not enough to handle the technological pressure.
To improve, I need to know WHY the heck I visit Facebook or use that app for a half of an hour? Did it harm my productivity or was it work-related? In real-time, please.
RescueTime or the analogs aren’t enough here. They either put a pile of “good-to-know” stats without any context on my head or are just too difficult to get through the UI every day.
We aim to make Y-Productive a blend of the most useful features to track and improve your workflow.
I and my teammates use it every day. How is it said? “Eat your own dog food”, right? Here is my productivity chart preparing for the launch for example:
We spent a good year in a beta polishing the app so I hope to hear what you think about it.
Let me know your thoughts or questions about Y-Productive!
P.S. don't forget to use the promo code: MEOWPRODUCTIVE on a pricing page (wink)(wink)
P.P.S. What's your opinion about the app? Maybe the field to improve or add new features? Would be glad to hear your thoughts, people!@alex_zhebryakov Congrats with the launch!
I've beed first of beta users 1 year ago. The app improved a lot since that time. My favorite part is UI.
Can you please share plans for the future? What other feature do you want to add?
@andreyazimov thanks for asking! Our #1 goal is to implement the SmartCoach - an assistant that will provide useful tips during the day based on your habits.
We require more users however to teach the AI.
In the nearest future, we'll add the synchronization between different computers and the productivity profiles to switch the categorization on the fly for different work situations. Think work vs study or something similar.
Maybe there's some feature that's missing on your mind? Would be glad to hear the opinion of everyone here.
@alex_zhebryakov I think it would be great and you can start without AI. Just based on my data. Like best working average time. So If I start working at 9:00, 9:10, 9:20 recommendation could be 9:10 but if it keep increasing it should notify like "So supposed to work". So no AI needed.
@alex_zhebryakov my problem is usually being productive on the laptop... right till I take the phone in the hands. i think I've heard that in a distant future you'd have a mobile app as well or am I just confused?
@lera_shukatka we could, but not like "all the features of desktop YP for the phone". iOS, sadly, has very strict restrictions with third-party apps tracking the screen time or blocking other apps.
@morajabi thanks a lot!
Be sure to reach out to us and share your impressions - it's our users who help us to make the app useful and friendly. We take all the feedback and ideas into the account and go through them on every meeting.
@alex_zhebryakov Ikr? Thank you for the sweet words. Love your work, and the fact that my product is in the same broad space as Y "Productive" 🙌
@itsnblackburn thanks, Nathaniel! You deserve a bit of fame, as you actually noticed the app and its potential back then half a year ago. It's also a reason why YP is posted as YP-2 ;)
Thanks for checking on the app, appreciate your care for how Y-Productive grows into the mature app! :)
I left Rescue Time after figured out they a) constantly got hacked and b) they sell data. If you think it's not related — you're wrong. It get hacked to sell the data as well. Think, services like that should avoid using cloud, or if they are, it must provide top security level.
Pros:Good tool for tracking productivity. Think, macOS should provide it by defaults (as iOS will does since 12).
Cons:Security risk: collecting tons of private data and doesn't provide multi-factor authentication
@grozyan Thank you for a feedback. We are going to implement an option to store the data locally and do no use any cloud storage. We understand the security concerns of our customers and trying to adapt as fast as we can, but the resources of our startup are limited (we bootstrap it from own pockets), so it will take some time.
Looking great, I've downloaded the app to give it a try. Usually this kind of tools only last a few days with me, but let's hope this one sticks!
How does the "uncategorized" category works, is it for apps that are not really productive but not really un-productive?
Other question, is there a way for an app to be sometimes in the productive category and sometimes in the unproductive? When I read medium, it can either be vers productive because it's directly work-related, or very unproductive because totally unrelated with my work ...
@pbriod hi Pascal! Thanks, great question actually.
We;re working to implement the categorization profiles to change it on the fly in different work situations (maybe it will be attachable to certain tasks).
Right now, yeah, need to deal with the dual nature of some apps. Shouldn't happen often though.
If I may ask, are there certain goals you aim to achieve using the app like ours? Maybe, become more focused, suffer less distractions or making more things done?
@alex_zhebryakov custom categorization profiles associated to tasks would be awesome, it would make a lot of sense for me.
Slack is a great tool and I can be productive when communicating on slack, but when I'm writing an important email or working on a design problem, checking Slack is actually hurting my productivity.
If I can find a tool that gives me a honnest feedback on my productivity, the simple fact of knowing that I'm tracking myself will make me more productive. What usually stops me from using a tool like this is when I feel like the tracking isn't really on point, and it loses value for me...
By the way, people - if I may ask you a question.
Are there certain goals or improvements you want to achieve for your workday or habits?
Like, become more concentrated or spend less time on FB or YT, or earn more by achieving more?
Your answer will help us to better understand what new features will be implemented :)
When you have so much to do online, sometimes you end up spending short periods of time on more than one project and getting very little done on any of them. Can Y-Productivity help give insights in that vein?
@oleksandr_senyuk yes, we have a statistics feature to track for each project separately and also an option to compose the report for any period of time to compare your performance on any day/week/month either for projects or separate tasks.
Is that something you had on your mind?
I've used this for about 2 weeks and very quickly it replaced RescueTime for me. The reports and real-time feedback on your productivity (in 5 minutes intervals), plus the insights it gives you like how many times you switched to non-productive apps, is amazing. On the other hand, time tracking is still limited, so if you have to log billable hours by client or aggregating several projects, I'd recommend using this with another app like Toggl.
Pros:Insightful UI shows you in real time if you've been productive or not This alone makes it more useful than other productivity tracking apps
Cons:No free version. Task time tracking is limited, with no option to export or set billable hours.
Saw it. Tried it. Signed up for it. Liked it immensely more than Rescuetime within a short while of use. Decided to stop using Rescuetime since I realized that it recorded plenty of information, but the experience wasn't really what I was hoping for when I started using it and I rarely checked the data. This app is cleaner upon first impressions and I've already found myself using it more and paying attention to what I'm doing and not doing more. Well done and looking forward to future updates.
Pros:Very nice to use & only takes a few minutes to get used to it. Already find it helping with productivity & being used more than Rescuetime.
Cons:All the people that are grumbling that the Maker is actually charging for something he made.
Hi @alex_zhebryakov,
I was using Toggl some time ago. It was enough to count hours spent on a specific task.
What the benefits I can get using Y-Productive?
What is the key difference between Y-Productive and RescueTime/Time Doctor?
Thank you in advance for the answers.
@andriybahlay Hi Andriy! Thanks for the question.
Actually, Toggl and Y-Productive serve for a different purpose. Sure, Y-Productive can track time, has task management and reports, just like Toggl.
But Toggl will just measure your time. It will not tell you if you wasted half of an hour for nothing and what you need to do to improve your work efficiency. It's just a good time tracker, that's it. Comparing Toggl and YP, think of a hammer and a microscope.
Now, TimeDoctor and RescueTime are closer to the point.
But YP combines task management and productivity feedback in a beautiful and simple way.
What's important, we have *context* for your activities. So you'll always know, why exactly your action was productive or unproductive for you, in a blink of an eye.
Did I mention that colorful insightful chart? :D
@alex_zhebryakov Thanks for the answers.
>>But YP combines task management
--- sounds good. Do you have any plans in future to support Trello/Google Keep or something similar?
@andriybahlay yep, integrations is something one would expect, but we have more essential features on the way. Like offline data storage, categorization profiles and sync between different computers. Integrations will be the thing to make once we're done with the core app itself.
What integrations you think would be useful for you in YP?
@alex_zhebryakov Having a Trello integration would be great. I'm using it every day as a primary task tracking system.
Hello again, people!
I want to thank you for such a warm reception.
It's a pleasant surprise for the whole team, how well you treated Y-Productive.
Thank you, everyone!
We're lucky to have such a supportive and responsive community.
It actually makes us smile and enjoy the day more than a badge.
Hope Y-Productive will help you to achieve your goals! :)
I'd like to have a free plan with minimum features.
Pros:Beautiful and modern design
Cons:No free plan like in Rescue Time
Honored to have the Product Hunt logo included in the video as a blockable website. 🙏🏼
@rrhoover ProductHunt is just so fun to scroll through that sometimes work goes aside :D
@grozyan it's a bit of an overhead, as for me. Would also need additional resource - which we don't have as for now. We fund the development ourselves.
@alex_zhebryakov well, you gain a lot of private data. Some of it is extremely sensitive. And you store this data in the cloud. In the year, where every week another big company with million-worth funding get hacked, and private data get exposed, I'd rather not use service that doesn't provide defaults of secure access.
@grozyan you're right. Sorry, I didn't get what you meant at first. Of course, we're already working on the option to store the data locally, without the need to store it on servers. It's the solution we can actually implement considering the resources.
Hey @alex_zhebryakov, my goal for using the app is to get a habit to plan a day and follow such plan.
I tried achieving it with just a self-discipline, but it didn't really give a sustainable result. My hope is that Y-productive will help me to form such habit and support me in maintaining it.
For now it seems that it will do the job.
Do you by chance have any educational videos or articles on good practices of using the tool?
I saw the hint on the main page but would appreciate more on the matter - like
- what are the hints for reviewing the feedback?
- what are the patterns I may observe?
- how should I approach any negative patterns that I will observe?
Or maybe you can recommend any relevant resource/book on the matter.
Appreciate your response,
M
@michael_popchuk hi Michael! Thanks for sharing!
We have an intro video when you sign in in the app.
My team mate also wrote a nice article on topic:
https://www.y-productive.com/blo...
He shares tips on how to use Y-Productive in a most effective way. The main idea is that our time and energy for the day is limited, and we can use it a lot better.
Hints on how to combine such methods with the app functionality included ;)
I tried to use this today. Looks like it doesn't account for multiple monitors.
After a couple of hours of work, mostly on Chrome, I come to the app and it shows 2 hours 100% on Y-Productive.
Is that because it was on the foreground in one of the spaces of my other monitor?
Find it very ironic how I usually spend a lot of time on product hunt at work as a distraction only to love a product that would prevent me from doing this...awesome concept though
I really like this app so far, I got downloaded it at the beginning of my workday and already feel really set up as I'm closing out. The way it handles adding lists to your productivity/unproductive tabs is intuitive and non-intrusive. I like it, and I like seeing how productive I was while trying to attempt a task - very critical to my job that requires lots of self-motivation and self-accounting.
Pros:Very intuitive UI, Very easy to get started.
Cons:Easy to just toggle focus mode off, tasks isn't feature rich.
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