Pyngup

Published on Juli, 9. 2025 by Niko Fischer

3 AM. Laptop open. "Getting Things Done" lies open beside me, "Atomic Habits" covered in Post-its next to it. Just installing app number 17.

"More discipline," whispered a voice in my head. "Optimize harder. Track more. Plan perfectly."

€487 spent on apps. Countless self-optimization books. Pomodoro timers, time-blocking, habit-stacking – I had tried everything.

Result? Burnout. And the feeling of never being enough.

July 5th, 2025 | PYNGUP Building in Public

Today was one of those days that reminds you why building software is harder than it looks.

What happened today

While yesterday I might have proudly called the contact system "done," today's multi-account testing brought me back down to earth.

Two test accounts. One "simple" contact connection flow. And suddenly edge cases appear that I never thought of:

The small things that break everything:

Building in Public Series - Update from July 4th, 2025

Status update since Monday: Holy shit, we're making progress! 🚀

What happened since my "17 Apps" post

Friday: First post about my failed app experiments
Tuesday-Wednesday: Refined concept and planned landing page
Thursday: Built and designed landing page
Today: pyngup.com is live! 🎸

June 30, 2025 - Day 2 of my public PYNGUP journey | 10 min read

You asked which 17 apps drove me to madness. Here's the complete list of my productivity app hell. With honest reviews, estimated costs, and the reason why each one failed.

Spoiler: It wasn't the apps. It was the system behind them.

The "Clean & Simple" Phase (Apps 1-4)

1. Todoist - €48/year
The seduction: "Finally, a clean, professional to-do list!"

June 27, 2025 - Day 1 of my public PYNGUP journey | 8 min read

I'm an entrepreneur. I've been running a software company since 2007. You might think: "This guy has his life together."

Bullshit.

I had tried 17 different to-do apps, journaled my goals every morning, and planned each day as optimistically as if I were a robot without bad days. I read everything from Tim Ferriss to Tony Robbins, meditated 20 minutes daily, and tracked my habits like a scientist.