Ascend

Name: Ascend
Author: Harshil Patel

Design · Frontend · 2025

Gamified productivity PWA — XP and levels, Pomodoro, 24-week heatmaps, command palette.

Problem

Todo apps track tasks but don't make you want to do them. The habit-forming mechanics that keep people in games are absent from the tools meant to run their lives.

Approach

Ascend treats productivity like a game you're leveling in: tasks award XP, streaks compound, and a 24-week heatmap makes consistency visible the way GitHub's graph does for commits. Built in Svelte 5 as a frosted-glass PWA with a command palette for keyboard-first use.

Features

XP & levels — Completing tasks earns XP scaled by difficulty — progress you can feel.
Pomodoro engine — Built-in focus timer that feeds session data back into your stats.
24-week heatmaps — Long-horizon consistency view, GitHub-graph style.
Command palette — Everything — add, complete, navigate — reachable without the mouse.

Outcome

My daily driver for task management, and my deepest dive into Svelte 5 runes.

Stack

Svelte 5, Vite, Firebase, PWA

Links

Live site · GitHub

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