My time management app is finally in production. It combines the Pomodoro technique with a coffee-inspired aesthetic and smart automation.
🎯 What is The Coffee Timer?
A web application that helps you stay focused with 25-minute work sessions, intelligent task management, and productivity insights.
✨ Key features:
- Pomodoro timer with animated coffee cup visualization
- Auto-start sessions - maintains your flow between work and breaks
- Session feedback tracking - understand when you're most productive
- Live timer in browser tab - no need to switch windows
- Task management with priorities, tags, and categories
- AI-powered daily summary and smart suggestions (Google Gemini)
- Ambient sounds for better focus
- Focus Mode for distraction-free work
- Dark/light mode
- PWA - works offline, installable as a native app
- Google authentication
- Premium subscription with advanced analytics via Stripe
🛠️ Tech stack:
Frontend: React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS
Backend: .NET 8
Database: Supabase (PostgreSQL)
AI: Google Gemini API
Payments: Stripe
This project taught me about Stripe payment integration, JWT authentication, generative AI APIs, real-time browser tab updates, and building smooth UX flows that reduce friction instead of adding it.
The biggest lesson? Shipping version 1.0 with core features beats waiting for perfection.
🔗 Try it free: https://thecoffeetimer.com
Do you use the Pomodoro technique? What features would make a productivity tool actually useful for you? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Top comments (2)
Fantastic! I'm using Pomodoro for a long time, and I've tried a lot of timers. This is the best till now. I'm going to use it daily, for sure.
In regard to the question, I guess simplicity is key. There are a lot of apps so hard to use!!
A question: what are AI smart suggestions for? Are they productivity tips, or something like that?
Thank you so much for your support, I really appreciate it... I'll keep improving it.
For now, these are suggestions about the types of tasks you're creating and a daily summary of your productivity.
I'll keep improving things, step by step.
Thanks 😊