About
Why I built it
In October 2018 I started counting my steps. The count is now more than thirty million.
Early on, every milestone arrived as an event — the first ten thousand in a day, the first million — because the app I used handed out a badge for each. Then the badges ran out. The ten thousand I walked in 2018 was an event; the ten thousand I walked yesterday passed unmarked. The effort stayed the same size.
That is the finding: effort only registers against checkpoints named in advance. My other trackers, for money, sleep, fasting and time, are accurate and cold, and none of them decides what counts.
Arizodo is the ladder of checkpoints I wanted: named, finite, and set before the work starts. What I need is consistency and repetition, and this is the instrument I built to get it.
How it was made
An old idea, built recently
The idea is more than ten years old. Building it stopped being expensive recently, and that is when it was built: a web app in plain, readable JavaScript, with no framework and no server. Every rule is checked by automated tests before each release.
Who is responsible
Aris Meškauskas
Arizodo is a personal project. I write the code and these pages. Arizo is a nickname, and the first half of the app's name — why.
There is no business model. Nothing is sold, and no data is collected.
Published as it stands, with no support. I do not answer technical questions or recover records. Everything the app does is described on this site, and the code is readable.
How it stays free
Free, and staying that way
Hosting costs close to nothing, so it stays free. There is no donation link and no paid tier.