Thing Button by meykr

You did
a thing.

A big red button for the habit you’re building. Press it when you do the thing. That’s the entire interface.

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Thing Button
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One press. One moment. No app. No notifications. No streaks. Enclosure concept · working prototypes on the bench

Why a button

The screen is where the habit goes to die.

Habit apps make you open a screen to record the habit, and the screen is where everything else lives. So we took the screen out.

  1. 01

    Name your Thing

    Drink water. Practice guitar. Homework. Whatever you’re trying to do more often. One Thing per button.

  2. 02

    Press the button

    A real button on a real desk. No app to open, no screen to unlock, nothing to scroll past on the way.

  3. 03

    Watch it build

    Every press is saved with its time. By the second week, the habit has a shape you can see.

The record

Make the invisible visible.

A small action. A record you can see.

You did a thing!

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Guitar practice

Presses · last 12 weeks

Days with a press
Usually, weekdays
Usually, weekends
Last 12 weeks Demo data
a press two presses today

Demo data · no account needed · press the button at the top and your press lands in today’s square.

Inside

A tiny computer and a big red button.

An ESP32, a tiny computer with Wi‑Fi built in, is wired to an arcade button. Press it, and the time goes to this site. If the internet is down, the button remembers the press and sends it later.

Interface
One big arcade button
Brain
ESP32 with built-in Wi‑Fi
Offline
Holds each press, sends it later
Record
The time of every press
Notifications
None
Built with
ESP32 · Supabase · Astro
Price
Not for sale. It’s a project.
Evelyn leaning over a cutting mat, soldering header pins onto an ESP32 board seated in a breadboard
Evelyn, at the bench

The people behind the press

Small hands.
Big ideas.

Built by Evelyn and her dad, Chris. One idea, a workbench, and the fun of figuring it out together.

Inside is an ESP32 wired to a big red arcade button. Getting the two talking meant soldering, and that was Evelyn’s job.

— Evelyn & Chris

Read our story ↗ Watch: header pins · 0:17

Good things start with a little curiosity.

Occasional notes from the workbench. No schedule, no marketing.

Now · working prototypes, one Thing per button Built · five buttons, by hand Already have a button? Log in