Built by one developer who wanted a calmer habit tracker.

For years I tracked habits, step counts, calories, and sleep across notebooks and spreadsheets. The spreadsheet worked — a row per habit, a column per day, green and red cells — but nothing I could find turned that into a real app. Every habit tracker I tried handled checkmarks and stopped there: a wake time became a yes/no, a weight became a streak, and the numbers I actually cared about had nowhere to live.

So I built Habit Pocket. I wanted one calm grid that handled checkmarks and numbers and times of day, and would show how they move together — without gamification, ads, or a social feed. Time-of-day is a first-class type, so a 07:15 wake-up is stored as a real time, not collapsed into a checkbox. It grew out of the same spreadsheets I had kept for years, turned into a tool I enjoy opening every day.

I am a senior software developer with more than seven years in backend engineering. I have designed and shipped high-throughput services, data pipelines, payment and identity integrations, and the cloud infrastructure behind them — in C#/.NET, Python, Go, and JavaScript, on AWS and GCP, backed by Postgres and SQL Server. That work has spanned fast-moving product startups and a large global software consultancy building for enterprise clients, so I have seen both the scrappy end and the scale end of shipping software. Habit Pocket is the indie counterweight to all of it: no VC, no ads, no data selling, and one clear point of view.

I am based in Toronto, Canada, and originally from Ukraine. I used to write about programming, note-taking, habit tracking, books, film photography, and music on my old blog at stefaniuk.website, and my CV lives at cv.stefaniuk.website. Questions or feedback? Email habit-pocket@stefaniuk.me.