I built HatRack because I couldn’t stop dropping hats.

I’m a songwriter, which means I need to write, read, listen, and perform — every day, if I’m serious about it. But every day I’d sit down, stare at all four, and do none of them. Not because I didn’t care. Because I cared about all of them equally, and choosing felt impossible.

So I built a hatrack. A literal one, at first — tokens you could slide along a track to mark progress. One tier for daily habits, one for weekly, one for monthly. You’d define a micro goal for each activity: write 50 words, listen to 1 song, play 1 chord, read 2 pages. Stupid small on purpose. Then you’d move the token when you did the thing.

The name might have also come from the idea of building an app to habit-track — but it was the image of all those hats, hanging on a rack and waiting to be worn, that stuck.

The digital version does the same thing, plus something the physical one couldn’t: it picks a hat at random and rolls a timer for you. Click the button, and HatRack assigns you a focus session — a random activity for a random number of minutes. No choosing. No negotiating with yourself. Just start.

The idea is simple. Most of us wear many hats. We have multiple roles, multiple projects, multiple things that matter. And most productivity tools assume you have one goal. HatRack assumes you have several, and that the hardest part isn’t the work — it’s deciding which work to do right now.

So you don’t decide. The hatrack decides for you. You just wear the hat.

An app to help you wear many hats, make a habit, and build a dream.