The Reminder Queue Refills Only When You Open the App
The bug report was one line from someone testing Lifemaxxing AI : "why did it tell me I got nothing done today, I did everything." He was right, and the notification was working exactly as written. Lifemaxxing AI is a habit app. You answer some onboarding questions, it assigns you tasks, and then it nags you. The nagging is the product. If the reminders are wrong, the app is a to-do list with a…
The Lifemaxxing AI app sends reminders to users based on their task completion, but there's a critical flaw in its reminder system. The reminder queue only refills when the user opens the app, which means a user who completes all their tasks for the day won't receive any reminders for the next day. There are two notifications scheduled: one morning and one afternoon, but both are one-time events and don't repeat.
This means the pending queue is at most two items deep, and the only thing that ever refills it is the scheduleNotifications function running again. The app's reminder system doesn't function correctly for users who aren't actively using the app, as it relies on the user opening the app to generate new reminders. This issue was discovered when a user noticed they were getting the same reminder message, even though they had completed all their tasks for the day.
The reminder system checks if tasks were completed today, but due to a bug, it always returns false, causing the afternoon notification to always be scheduled, regardless of the user's task completion. Additionally, the notification content doesn't accurately reflect the user's task count, sometimes displaying zero tasks completed.
The app's design doesn't account for users who aren't actively using the app, resulting in a reminder system that fails to retain users.
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