DodoHub Keeps Track of Your Habits and Makes Sure You Achieve Your Goals

I’m told that it takes 21 days to develop a habit. Here’s an app, DodoHub, that encourages you to develop good habits. It tracks and records your progress in a new goal, which eventually leads to achieving the thing you’ve set for yourself.

The Singapore-based startup took to the stage today at Startup Arena to tell us how the app aims to eliminate the act of procrastination. There are a good number of apps out there that allow you to set a goal and guide you towards achieving it, but DodoHub aims to be the assistant that allows you to develop minor but meaningful habits in your life. It could range from drinking water to walking your dog, to calling your parents.

For instance, if you are looking to lose weight (I probably need this) and be a healthier person, you can set a weekly target and reminder. You can set these to run three times weekly, sit-ups daily, etc. DodoHub generates a daily as well as a weekly report which will be sent to your email. You will be able to track your progress. The team seems to have placed a larger emphasis on healthy weight loss too, and has made a feature separate from others to monitor weight changes.

DodoHub also motivates individuals through gamification methods. Each user will be a character within the app. With each completed task, users will be given experience points (EXP). With the experience points, it allows your character to progress from one level to another. And once the character levels up from one to another, you will be given health points (HP). These points, according to founder Hu Chen, are what keep the characters alive. Once it hits zero, the character will be demoted to level one. In order to make sure that the HP continues to climb, users need to make sure that he/she keeps to the positive habits and does not break the cycle.

Jeffery Paine said that there needs to be careful pronunciation of the startup’s name, as the “do do” on DodoHub has a slang meaning as well. (ie: “doodoo” is “poop”!) On the other hand, Yasuhiko Yurimoto was pretty impressed with the app.

This is a part of our coverage of Startup Asia Singapore 2013, our event running on April 4 and 5. For the rest of our Startup Arena pitches, see here. You can follow along on Twitter at @techinasia, and on our Facebook page.