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Pomodoro App

Customizable pomodoro timer with multiple timer types and personalization

Web app Rated 7 Oct 2026Dormant

Link
day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app
Built by
Dev Nerd

Bloat

80/500

Where it landed on the scale

Bloat
0
Float
300
Moat
400

Summary

This is a practice project from a 100DaysOfCode series: a working but thin Pomodoro timer with adjustable durations, fonts and colors. It has no accounts, pricing, payments or support, and nothing has shipped since the single post in February 2025. It shows learning progress rather than a product with a market.

Bloat · Not much here works or looks likely to last, yet.

Breakdown

Five measures, 100 points each. Open the receipts under any of them to see the posts and pages behind the points.

Viability

Is there a real problem, someone who would pay, and a market this builder can actually reach?

A tutorial-style practice build with no stated user, no way to charge, and no sign it was meant to become a business.

12/100

Rubric 0–20No clear problem or user. A toy, a practice clone, or a solution looking for a problem.

Receipts (2)

  1. Framed as Day 83 of a coding challenge, so it is a learning exercise rather than a product aimed at paying users.

    “#Day83 of #100DaysOfCode Challenge I built this fully customizable pomodoro app using typescript. The app features three types of timers pomodoro, short break, and long break, you can customize the time for each timer, the font style, and the color of the app🔥 Check it out⚡️ 🔗 Live Link 🔗 Repo Link #projects@DevNerd0”

    Post · @DevNerd0 · 2 Feb 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. The live site has no pricing, payments, accounts or waitlist, so there is no path to revenue.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Moat

What stops someone copying it?

Pomodoro timers are among the most commonly cloned beginner projects and many free versions exist; nothing here is hard to rebuild.

4/100

Rubric 0–20A thin wrapper or a clone that anyone here could rebuild in a weekend.

Receipts (2)

  1. The features listed (three timer types, custom durations, font and color) are standard and easy to replicate in a weekend.

    “#Day83 of #100DaysOfCode Challenge I built this fully customizable pomodoro app using typescript. The app features three types of timers pomodoro, short break, and long break, you can customize the time for each timer, the font style, and the color of the app🔥 Check it out⚡️ 🔗 Live Link 🔗 Repo Link #projects@DevNerd0”

    Post · @DevNerd0 · 2 Feb 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. No data, integrations, accounts or local-language depth that could compound into a defense.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Momentum

Did the updates keep coming?

Seen in a single post on 2025-02-02 with no activity since, over 600 days of silence, so there is no sustained shipping record.

0/100

  • Sustained shipping0/60

    Worked on across 0 days.

  • Consistency0/40

    Updates in 1 of 1 month.

  • Quiet

    No update for 612 days — scaled to 20%.

Receipts (1)

  1. Earliest post about it.

    “#Day83 of #100DaysOfCode Challenge I built this fully customizable pomodoro app using typescript. The app features three types of timers pomodoro, short break, and long break, you can customize the time for each timer, the font style, and the color of the app🔥 Check it out⚡️ 🔗 Live Link 🔗 Repo Link #projects@DevNerd0”

    Post · @DevNerd0 · 2 Feb 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Infrastructure

Does a real, working product exist?

A live, working timer exists on a free Vercel subdomain, but it is a thin front-end with no accounts, backend, docs or other operational layers.

51/100

  • It's live20/20

    https://day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app/ responded when checked.

  • HTTPS5/5

    Served over HTTPS.

  • Real product25/35

    The post describes a working timer with customization and the site is live, but it is a single-purpose, thin front-end app with no persistence or backend evident.

  • Own home0/10

    Only on a free subdomain or link-in-bio page.

  • Maintained0/15

    Last sign of shipping 2025-02-02.

  • Operations1/15

    Only a live Vercel deployment and a linked repo; no accounts, backend, docs, API, status page or additional platforms.

Receipts (5)

  1. https://day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app/ responded when checked.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  2. The site responded live over HTTPS, though the crawler captured no page text or further features.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  3. Describes three timer modes with customizable durations, fonts and colors, which is working but thin.

    “#Day83 of #100DaysOfCode Challenge I built this fully customizable pomodoro app using typescript. The app features three types of timers pomodoro, short break, and long break, you can customize the time for each timer, the font style, and the color of the app🔥 Check it out⚡️ 🔗 Live Link 🔗 Repo Link #projects@DevNerd0”

    Post · @DevNerd0 · 2 Feb 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. Facts show no accounts, docs, status page or store links.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  5. A repo link is shared, but that is the only operational signal.

    “#Day83 of #100DaysOfCode Challenge I built this fully customizable pomodoro app using typescript. The app features three types of timers pomodoro, short break, and long break, you can customize the time for each timer, the font style, and the color of the app🔥 Check it out⚡️ 🔗 Live Link 🔗 Repo Link #projects@DevNerd0”

    Post · @DevNerd0 · 2 Feb 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Sustainability

Is it being set up to last?

Distribution is only a free subdomain, there is no pricing, payments, privacy policy, terms or support, and the author gave no sign of continuing it beyond the challenge entry.

13/100

  • Distribution12/30

    A site on a free subdomain.

  • Payments0/15

    No payment provider found.

  • Pricing0/10

    No pricing found on the site.

  • Revenue0/5

    No mention of customers, revenue or payments anywhere.

  • Privacy policy0/7

    No privacy policy found.

  • Terms0/5

    No terms of service found.

  • Support0/8

    No support contact found.

  • Commitment1/20

    One post in a daily-challenge streak and no follow-up, roadmap, team, or dedicated channel for this project.

Receipts (4)

  1. A site on a free subdomain.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  2. No payment provider detected and no pricing found.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  3. Part of a 100 Days of Code series, which shows personal discipline but not commitment to this specific product.

    “#Day83 of #100DaysOfCode Challenge I built this fully customizable pomodoro app using typescript. The app features three types of timers pomodoro, short break, and long break, you can customize the time for each timer, the font style, and the color of the app🔥 Check it out⚡️ 🔗 Live Link 🔗 Repo Link #projects@DevNerd0”

    Post · @DevNerd0 · 2 Feb 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. No updates since 2025-02-02, about 612 days of inactivity.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · day-83-pomodoro-app.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)