Mobile22 May 2026In Development
CampFire
A mobile app for reducing procrastination through Pomodoro-style focus sessions, lightweight habit loops, and intentional breaks. Designed to feel calm, not gamified.
- Mobile
- React Native
- Productivity
- UX
A mobile app for reducing procrastination through Pomodoro-style focus sessions, lightweight habit loops, and intentional breaks. Designed to feel calm, not gamified.
Most productivity apps treat focus as a points game. Streaks, leaderboards, and notifications turn "doing the work" into "feeding the app." Users I've talked to (myself included) churn out within a couple of weeks because the app becomes another source of pressure rather than a tool that helps them sit down and start.
The Pomodoro technique works for a lot of people, but the existing apps either bury it under features or treat every session as a transaction in a points economy.
CampFire is a small mobile app built around one idea: a focus session should feel like sitting down to do the work, not like clocking in. The interface is calm, the defaults are sensible, and the only "score" is the streak of completed sessions for the current day — which resets every morning so there's nothing to grind.
People who already want to do focused work but get pulled out by their phone — students during study blocks, devs working through a deep task, writers who need a quiet 25 minutes. Not productivity hobbyists hunting for the next dopamine system.
A few choices I made deliberately:
expo-sqlite) for local persistenceCampFire is still in development — the core focus loop works end-to-end and is being dogfooded daily.
The goal isn't a category-defining app — it's a small, honest tool that people actually use after the first week.