u/According_Club_539

Bit of a confession.
For the past year I've been using Trello and Google Keep to track habits and goals. Big lists. Lots of ideas. I'd add stuff, sometimes tick things off, mostly just... let them sit there.
Every few weeks I'd open the board and realise half the ideas were outdated and I hadn't actually done any of them. The "tracking" was theatre. I was just collecting intentions.
I'm 36, software engineer in Melbourne, had my own startup that didn't survive covid (had to let people go, which still sits with me). Now I do freelance dev work and I'm raising a kid. Time is the most expensive thing I have, and I was wasting it pretending to be productive.
So I built LockProof. It's a habit tracker that requires a photo proof to mark anything done, and an on-device AI verifies the photo actually matches the habit. You can't just tap a checkbox. If you say you went to the gym, you take a photo of gym equipment. If the AI doesn't see it, no streak.
Took me about a week with Cursor to get the basics working, then another week to integrate the AI model properly. Originally used Apple's MobileCLIP but the license isn't commercial-friendly, so I swapped to an open CLIP model. Still rough in places but it runs on-device which keeps it private and free to operate.
26 downloads so far. I tried paying a couple of TikTok creators to talk about it and that went nowhere, learned some lessons and burned some money. So now I'm posting myself, badly, learning as I go. Marketing is the hardest part of this by a long way.
Funny thing: even though my streaks aren't long yet (I keep wiping data while testing), the app has actually changed my behaviour. Mostly because I'm now forced to post on TikTok daily about it, which is something I used to avoid completely.
If anyone wants to try it, it's called LockProof on the App Store. iOS only for now. Honest feedback welcome, especially if the AI rejects something it shouldn't, that's the kind of bug that'll kill me.