DailyWave
a one-task-at-a-time productivity app (open source)
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Hi HN,I built this to solve my own task paralysis problem. The app only shows one next task instead of a full list.It’s open source and still very early. Feedback welcome.
HN · launched Jan 8, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 75%) · 0 views
Niche: personal task management apps · 173 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -32% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a minimalistic to-do application that enforces a single-task view constraint, easily built with standard web frameworks and local storage in a few days.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 178 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #171 of 179 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 46 days after the earliest competitor.
- TargetWave · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DailyRoutine · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Taskora: To Do List · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- QuietList · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- LifeFlow · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DayZen: Visual day planner for ADHD brains · hn · 2026-01-24 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Sunrise · ph · 2026-07-06 · 237 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- OpenTodo · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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