Habit Trackers Lack Real Stakes to Prevent Quitting
Habit-tracking apps let users abandon commitments without consequence, so people are good at starting habits but rarely finish them. The poster built a stakes-based commitment app as a fix, but the underlying gap is that mainstream trackers lack real accountability.
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