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What Building a Snoring Exercise App Taught Me About Habit UX
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What Building a Snoring Exercise App Taught Me About Habit UX

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Most health apps have the same problem. The feature is not the hard part. The hard part is getting someone to come back tomorrow. That was the big lesson while working on Airway Trainer, a snoring exercise app built around short daily mouth, tongue, and throat exercises. At first, the idea sounds simple: Give people exercises that may help reduce snoring. But once you start building the product, the real question becomes: How do you help someone do boring exercises every day for weeks? That is a much harder product problem. The Research Was Not The Main Problem There is real research behind this type of training. These exercises are often called: oropharyngeal exercises mouth exercises for snoring tongue exercises throat exercises myofunctional therapy The basic idea is simple. Some snoring happens because the muscles around the airway relax during sleep. When that area gets narrow or floppy, it can vibrate. That vibration is the snoring sound.…

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