
Show HN: Five Things Today – a super simple to-do list - iamben
https://fivethings.today
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iamben
Hey HN.

Before you go ‘not another to-do list’; I wrote this for myself much earlier
in the year, after using the “only set yourself 5 things to do every day” hack
on paper for a few weeks, and it works quite well.

I put it on its own domain shortly after so I could access it when out and
about. I had some vague plan to ‘market’ it at some point, but other stuff
took priority.

Early this week I was talking to a friend about this article:
[https://taylorpearson.me/fast/](https://taylorpearson.me/fast/) \- basically,
at 70% you should just launch something. It coincided with a great book I’ve
been reading (‘How to Be an Imperfectionist’). This project seemed to be a
(/another) prime example of something I start, that gets to 70% and remains
un-launched. So he said “Why don’t you just launch it?”

The ‘perfectionist’ in me hates the idea of sending something out now - I’m
actually kind of nervous doing it. But I know if I don’t, I probably never
will. I’m sure you’ll be able to find some bugs and issues, but I’ve been able
to use it personally relatively successfully. The homepage / landing page
hasn’t been designed to encourage signup (which would have been on the
roadmap), and the whole site was a result of ‘build and see’, rather than any
kind of logical planning. The design needs a bunch of ‘prettying’, but… well,
70%. And if you find it useful, then great :-)

The mailing list comment in the join box refers to the fact that I may, at
some-point, send a ‘checkout my site I actually got to 100% on’, but I’m not
adding anyone to anything now. Feel free to test, use, whatever. There’s a
delete option on the settings page - it’ll (permanently) delete everything in
the database relating to your account (including any email address before I’ve
added it to any kind of list).

So here you go. Go easy. Feedback welcome!

