I was struggling to sit down and start my side projects, so I began reading more about productivity and motivation. Eventually I ended up writing a tiny Pomodoro timer for my terminal — mostly just to help myself get moving.
It’s super minimal: you enter the title, work time, break time, and number of intervals. At the end it generates a simple session report and asks you to write your own conclusion. I like reading my own reports later, so I added that feature.
I also enjoy reading short reports and summaries, so adding them felt natural. And honestly, I prefer building simple tools myself rather than hunting for the “perfect” app.
Works on Windows & Linux, needs only Python.
GitHub: https://github.com/Mietkiewski/MPomidoro
Gumroad PWYW $0+: https://mietkiewski.gumroad.com/l/mpomidoro
That comment is helping potential users vet your project before they use it, since not everyone has the motivation to go into the repo and take a look
Just to clarify — I don’t have any issue with people analyzing or quoting small parts of the code. The project is intentionally distributed on Gumroad as a “0$+” closed‑source release rather than as an open‑source GitHub repo. Since there’s no license file, it defaults to all rights reserved, which means full files can’t be redistributed.
Part of this project is also a learning exercise for me in how to package and distribute small tools. I’m genuinely interested in feedback on this approach.
But if someone posts the entire file publicly, it makes it harder for me to actually demonstrate the distribution model I’m experimenting with — the whole point was to release it through Gumroad, not as a fully exposed source dump.
I’m not a lawyer, but I would argue this actually means that even people who get it from Gumroad can’t use it “legally”. There should be a license which expresses your intent.
That applies to licensed software. Here you’re not buying a license — just the right to use the tool. A license is only needed if someone wants to copy, modify or redistribute it.
Buying the product gives people the right to use it — the license is only needed for redistribution or modifying the files. But yeah, you’re right that adding a license would make everything clearer. I’ll include one next time to avoid any confusion.
It’s implied, but it’s not clear - which is why whenever you “buy” software you actually buy a license to use it which clearly states how, where and by whom it may be used, on how many devices, under which conditions, etc etc etc.