Lock In
A goal Mac tracker controlled by typed commands
Details
- External ID
- 46463368
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lock In
- Website domain
- letslockin.xyz
- Launched
- Jan. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2549407114624506
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- habit and daily routine trackers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- goal tracker for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
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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Competitors
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Attention rank: #168 of 179 (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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- 30-Day Productivity Planner · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- WakeUp: Alarm Clock & Goals · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- SuperWeek · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Lock In - Focused Lifts · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- 10Goals: Goal Tracker · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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