Building Mitia, DopaLoop and Quilence to help myself, my kids and everyone out there to get on better.
Between Hamburg and Baltic Sea
Joined December 2025
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You read the air before you spoke,
swallowed the wave before it broke.
And nobody knew how much it cost
to look so found while feeling lost.
from "You are not alone"
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If you only need a gentle list, start with Mitia. If you want more later, your data should come with you.
Three habits free, on your phone, iOS and Android. When you catch yourself wanting goals under the habits, a weekly review, Watch, voice notes: that's DopaLoop.
The move between them is the part I'm still building. Mitia's side is written. DopaLoop can't read it yet, so the button isn't in the app. Right now it's a promise, and I'm saying it like one.
When it works, "your data comes with you" becomes a boring true sentence. Boring is the goal.
Mitia: mitia.app
DopaLoop: dopaloop.app
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Testers told me they couldn't tell whether a check-in had actually saved.
Fair. The buzz came with the touch, not with the save. It felt responsive and meant nothing.
Now it comes after the database says yes. If saving fails, Mitia says so, keeps the old state on screen and lets you try again. Two fast taps on the same habit can't finish in the wrong order anymore.
An ADHD brain doubts whether it did the thing often enough. The app shouldn't add a second doubt.
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I'm approaching marketing and app distribution strictly scientific: First all the ways it doesn't work...
I'll ping you once I get to the other side.
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Finch gets a new App Store rating every 13 downloads. DopaLoop got one every 344.
I read the Finch number in Sebastian Röhl's HabitKit log, and it stung a bit. His point: ranking isn't capped by keywords, it's capped by how fast ratings come in.
So Mitia asks differently. Only after you've checked in on three different days. Never in a session where you just saw the paywall or the what's new screen. At most three times a year.
Asking people at a good moment isn't a dark pattern. Asking everyone on day one is.
Small app. A rating helps more than you'd think.
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Mitia has no account. On purpose.
No email. No login. No cloud copy of your habits waiting somewhere you forgot about.
Everything sits on the phone. If you leave, there's nothing for me to delete, because nothing was uploaded.
I build for a brain that already distrusts apps that want a relationship before they've earned it. Privacy here isn't a badge. It's the shortest path to open, tap, done.
What's the first thing that makes you close a new app? Mine is a login screen.
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Before launch, I cut Mitia's free tier from five habits to three.
Not stinginess. Math, and a screen.
With five, most people never hit the limit, so they never find out Pro exists. Mitia is cheap on purpose, and cheap only works if a lot of people see the offer.
Three also fills the screen: two habits whole, the third cut off at the edge. No half-empty list, and if you want more you notice right away.
It had to happen before launch. Going from three to five later is a gift. Going from five to three takes things away from people.
Checking in is never behind the paywall. That one isn't up for debate.
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The home screen is where my attention actually lives. So that's where Mitia had to be.
Two widgets, on iPhone and Android. "Today" shows the day's habits, the other one a single habit. Tap logs a 3, tap again takes it back. No app launch.
iOS got WidgetKit, Android got Glance. Same behaviour, two codebases, and a lot of late August spent getting them to agree.
Widgets are part of Pro. Checking in inside the app never is.
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"Why build two ADHD habit trackers?" Fair question.
DopaLoop answers "help me understand my life". Goals that habits hang off, a weekly review, voice notes, Apple Watch, a report you could hand to a therapist.
Mitia answers "let me track this without getting told off". A list, a 0 to 5 scale, widgets, iOS and Android. No account, nothing to set up on a Tuesday evening.
I kept building the first answer for people who were asking the second question.
Same rule in both: no streak that can break you. No red anything.
Small: mitia.app
Full loop: dopaloop.app
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Nobody in my closed test found Mitia's 0 to 5 scale. Not one tester.
Tap a habit and it logs a 3. Hold it and the scale opens, 0 to 5. That's the whole idea of the app, and it was hidden behind a gesture nobody tries.
The part I care about most lives there too: the deliberate 0. Not an empty day. A day where something else mattered more, written down, so later I know I chose and didn't just forget.
So now the empty screen says it out loud, and there's a short guide under Help.
Less clever. Better.
Would you rather log a 0 or leave the day blank?
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Mitia got rejected by App Review twice. Both times for things I already knew.
First one: I submitted the build without the in-app purchases attached, and the description didn't link the terms of use. Two checkboxes. Rejected.
Second one, weeks later: a screenshot said "free". Guideline 2.3.7. No prices in store images, not even "free". The text may say it, the pictures may not.
Bonus round: for a while Apple was reviewing screenshots I no longer had. My upload script hit the ten-image limit, failed quietly, and left the old set sitting in App Store Connect.
Note to future me: when Apple complains about something you already fixed, look at what's actually in ASC first.
Live on both stores since 24 September anyway.
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Missing a week of habits doesn't hurt much. Opening the app afterwards does.
You know what's waiting in there. A row of red X's. A streak back at day one. One bad day and the whole month feels ruined, so you don't open it, and the gap gets wider.
That's the actual problem. Not the missed days.
So Mitia does one small thing about that moment. If you've been away five days or more, the first thing it says is:
"Good to see you. The days in between don't need filling in."
No catch-up list. No day one. You check in today. Done.
What made you stop opening the last habit app you quit?
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Building two ADHD habit trackers in public: DopaLoop and Mitia. Mitia is newer and intentionally simpler.
The goal is not perfect days. It is still opening the app after a messy one.
What makes you abandon a habit app?
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