This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot Challenge : New Beginnings
Backstory
Being a productivity nerd, I’ve tried out dozens of productivity apps starting from ones that block websites to habit trackers but I’ve always felt something missing in all of them. Remember a day before exam during school, we all could easily focus even 10+ hours each day but rest of the time even forgetting to check off habits from habit tracker.
Yes, it’s because of accountability and the fear of losing (being seen as a failure in front of someone) that’s why we could focus before exams but not on everyday matters.
Hence I build — ProgressPals.
What I Built
A community focused productivity app that let’s you set challenges (and bet even real money yes) to accomplish something in a given time, people can join your challenge to audit you and track your daily progress (through live chat/progress pics). If you win, then you get to keep your wager, if you lose you’ve to donate to a charity of your choice.
Demo
Here’s a quick 5 min demo of the app, let me know what features you’d like to see and how would you use this platform.
You can check the app here:
Repo
Here’s the link to GitHub repo (feel free to drop a star if you’ve liked it) —
heytulsiprasad
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progress-pals
Ending procrastination since yesterday morning
Progress Pals
Hope this will be an end to our perrenial procrastination
Built in within a day for GitHub Copilot 1-Day Build Challenge using Copilot 🦄 and procrastination beating discipline.
Launch post coming soon 🪄
Copilot Experience
I pretty much code in public (if that makes sense 😅). Here’s something I tweeted while running this challenge:
Last time I used copilot was ~few months back and only did chat completion/chat with GPT then but this time they’ve completely blown the game by introducing: “Edit with Copilot”.
What I’ve realised is, the more detailed your prompt is and more accurate files that you attach to the context (don’t go spamming #codebase) all the time, you’ll get brilliant results. It edits and even creates new files in accurate folders and also shows you a diff of what it has done which I’ve pretty much accepted >90% of time. It depends on your prompt crafting though, as it might not be fully aware of your knowledge.
I love tab completion feature as well, although it seems a bit slow at times but most of the time I’ve used the inline edit which does most of the jobs pretty easily.
GitHub Models
I’ve mainly used GPT 4o as it felt like the fastest there is and gets the job done almost always. However I felt Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a bit better at crafting UI’s that look aesthetic, but it’s a bit slow so I’ve used it very less.
I also tried out the Vision for Copilot Preview which fixed some UI issues but I still have to test out by giving it exact Figma snapshots, as I couldn’t in this challenge due to lack of time.
Conclusion
If you see the footer on my app, I’ve said, “Built after 179 days of having the idea” and it’s fricking true as you can see the day I posted this on Twitter lol.
Although I’ve made a huge chunk, it still need some refining and actual payment integrations and good UI to maximise usability and accountability (if your real money is in stake lol).
Does it have real potential as a product?
However, I’m still testing the idea among people, but in my opinion if we’d have a right accountability partner who pushes us I’ve no doubt this would be a huge catalyst in people’s challenges, therefore making our app the next facebook! 😂
Until then thanks for reading and don’t forget to stay hydrated (leave a feedback to help me improve). 🌱
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