How I Built LifeXP

It started on a random afternoon call. We were talking gym apps, because of course we were. The idea floating around was: "Yo, what if we build something like Hevy but better?"

Then mid-ramble, I just blurted:
"What if Hevy… but for productivity?"

Pat didn’t miss a beat. He said:
"Make it life 😏"

And that was it. The brain glitch happened. LifeXP was born.

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🧩 What Even Is LifeXP?

Imagine if your productivity app actually respected your life.

LifeXP doesn’t track what you should do. It tracks what you actually do — the productive, self-bettering shit. No points for doomscrolling. No claps for binging Netflix for 9 hours and calling it “mental health.”
You earn XP for the things that improve your real life — workouts, journaling, building your startup, learning, meditating — whatever your version of “leveling up” looks like.

The goal? Make life feel like a damn RPG.

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💡 The Core Philosophy

Most “productivity” tools feel like they were built by robots.
Too rigid. Too shamey. Too numbers-go-up-without-context.

LifeXP is built different. It’s based on two beliefs:

1. You are doing more than you think. You just don’t track it.
2. Patterns > moments. Progress comes from noticing loops, not streaks.

So the system rewards real actions, surfaces loops (good or bad), and evolves with you.

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🔨 How I Built It (a.k.a the dev chaos)

This wasn’t some clean roadmap. This was pure night-coding energy, caffeine shakes, and “what if we add this too?” moments.

Here’s the stack I landed on:

• Backend: Django — solid, scalable, and pain-infused. My go-to.
• Relational DB + Auth: Supabase. Real-time and clean AF.
• Graph DB for loops & insights: Neo4j — tracks your habits like a digital stalker (but helpful).
• Frontend: HTML + Tailwind, rendered dynamically with JS. Infinite scroll cause ✨ dopamine.
• Infra: Hosted on DigitalOcean (Droplet gang), Redis for caching + Celery for async streak logic.

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🧠 The Coolest Bit — Loop System™

This thing is my favorite.

Instead of just tracking streaks (which die the moment life gets hard), LifeXP tracks loops.

• If you code three nights in a row, then ghost everything for a week, then journal at 3am?
• It knows.
• It maps that.
• And over time, it offers nudges to break bad loops or reinforce good ones.

Basically a therapist with a database. And fewer daddy issues.

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📈 What’s the Plan?

This is still early. It’s raw. It’s personal. But it’s also bigger than me.

I’m building this while being a full-time uni student, running a startup, and juggling an internship. But I’m aiming for:

• Launch MVP: Mid–late 2025
• 10K–50K users by end of 2026
• 1–3% conversion on freemium model
• Monthly revenue: ₹50K–₹1L by late 2026

Do I know how I’ll get there?
Kinda.
Am I gonna fake confidence anyway?
Abso-fucking-lutely.

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🚧 Coming Soon™

• MOBILE APPSSS BABY!!!!
• The entire loop detection
• Leaderboards (Gotta make it better)
• Community vibes without the toxic social media rot
• Eventually: deeper insights, subscription features

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If you’re reading this, you’re either:

• A productivity nerd
• A builder curious how others survive this chaos
• Or someone I forced to click this link (hi mom)

Whatever the case — thanks for being here.

LifeXP’s gonna be messy. But it’s gonna be real.

And that’s what makes it worth building.