I built a habit app after my 9-5 and somehow it reached ~3k installs

about a year ago i had a simple problem - i couldn't stay consistent with habits.

i tried a bunch of habit tracker apps but many felt either too complex or everything useful was behind subscriptions. so after work one night i started building a small app for myself.

no big startup idea. no launch plan.

just something i wanted to use personally. slowly it became HabitHook.

most of it was built late nights after office, sometimes making progress... sometimes just fixing bugs and wondering why i started

recently i opened the play console and saw something i honestly didn't expect - almost 3k installs.

for a solo dev project that started as "just for me", that felt huge. the idea behind the app is simple: track habits join challenges with others leaderboards for motivation basically trying to make habit building feel less lonely. still improving things every week and learning a lot from feedback.

if anyone here enjoys trying indie apps or breaking things would love your thoughts.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details? id=com.metaserve.habithook

also curious - what helped you grow your first few thousand users?