Congrats! This is something I'd love to do one day if I find myself not tied to a location by social connections.
This stuck out to me:
> I decided to focus on building a meditation app as my main project. I came up with the idea because I saw others around me struggling to stick to meditation...
Do you expect another meditation app to help with this? I think many folks interested in mediation quickly find a good beginner/handhold-y app like Headspace. Yet, like language learning w/ Duolingo, few people actually stick to it. I think Duolingo and Headspace are awesome and to be honest, if I can't make something stick with these two I'm not sure how an app could be "better" at making me stick to something.
I think meditation is the new diet fad. People try it but generally will not stick with it long term. Maybe they’ll try a different type of meditation (diet). A vocal minority will have success and life change that continues to inspire and fuel the trend. But as a business, high churn ahead is my guess.
Thank you for the kind words! Headspace and other apps are great for meditation beginners. You mentioned Duolingo as an example that has made language learning more fun and thus easier to stick to. Similarly, I think there's a lot of room for improvement in how people learn meditation. I approach habit development from a different angle though: sticking to a habit comes after certain conditions are met, and it's not just about "gamifying" everything. There are ways to learn meditation that make the practice itself much more meaningful, and thus easier to stick to.
This stuck out to me:
> I decided to focus on building a meditation app as my main project. I came up with the idea because I saw others around me struggling to stick to meditation...
Do you expect another meditation app to help with this? I think many folks interested in mediation quickly find a good beginner/handhold-y app like Headspace. Yet, like language learning w/ Duolingo, few people actually stick to it. I think Duolingo and Headspace are awesome and to be honest, if I can't make something stick with these two I'm not sure how an app could be "better" at making me stick to something.