Lock In
A goal Mac tracker controlled by typed commands
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I built a task/goal tracker where the entire UI is one input field.The idea: your goals live in four quadrants (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). Everything happens through commands. The app docks to the side of your screen.Adding a goal:/d 50 pushupsChain them:/d 50 pushups /w 3 gym sessions /m finish project /y learn pianoUpdating progress:Create an alias with /alias p pushups, then just type 25 p to add 25. Three characters.Review your week with /review 7d. Rename goals, change targets, convert between quadrants—all through commands.Each quadrant auto-resets at the right interval (daily at midnight, weekly on Monday, etc). You don't manage anything.Why I built it this way: I kept bouncing between productivity apps looking for something faster. Nothing stuck because they all wanted me to click through menus and organise things. I just wanted to type and move on.So I made something deliberately constrained. One input. Four quadrants. No settings screen. No integrations. The lack of features is the point.Curious what the HN crowd thinks—especially if the command syntax feels intuitive or too obscure. Still iterating.
HN · launched Jan 2, 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
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Lock In is a desktop task tracker HUD with keyboard command parsing and local data storage, readily implementable using Electron or Tauri with standard UI frameworks.
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Attention rank: #417 of 430 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 59 days after the earliest competitor.
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