[12:39pm: Eating at the PC.]

To keep it simple, let's start out with:

First Screen

• Displays the text field into which users dictate their content.
• Displays the word count.
• Field showing how many words per hour, half hour, and quarter hour the user needs to write to reach their daily goal.
• Let the user choose the interval.
• Displays a timer.
• User should be able to type or speak into the text field.
• Responsive: Let the user write on-the-go on any device.
• Further down the page, display a list of previous days' sessions so the user can jump to a particular day.

This looks like a decent MVP. It's enough to show the basic idea and see if it's useful for anyone.

It shouldn't take too long to create this, though knowing myself, it will take much longer than my first estimate. Should I account for that and make a longer estimate? That wouldn't let me escape Hofstadter's Law.

I've heard some say an MVP shouldn't take more than 2-3 weeks to develop, so I'll say it now: "It will take me 6 weeks to build this!"

With luck and discipline, I won't let work expand to fill that time (Parkinson's Law), which might cause me to overrun the estimate (Hofstadter's Law).

How many laws do I have to watch out for?

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