Tomopomo — A Friendly Pomodoro Timer for GitHub
A focus timer that ties your Pomodoro sessions to a GitHub repo — shipped and live at tomopomo.com, with an ~80% session-completion rate across a modest, organic user base.
Overview
Tomopomo is a friendly Pomodoro timer for developers — live at tomopomo.com, with a native iOS app on the way. It ties each focus session to a GitHub repo, so the time you spend heads-down shows up next to the code it went into — then surfaces it in a dashboard of your working patterns and a leaderboard to compete with friends. The name plays on tomato (the kitchen timer the Pomodoro Technique is named after) and pomodoro; the mascot is Tom, a black cat holding a tomato.
Approach
Tomopomo is built around one idea: the fastest focus tool is the one that gets out of your way. Start a session and get to work — no setup screens, no settings rabbit hole before you can begin.
Each session can be tied to a GitHub repo, so your focus time is recorded against the work it actually went into — and that data stays in service of you. It powers your own dashboard, not an ad profile: there are no third-party analytics or behavior-tracking SDKs, no surveillance scripts following you around the web. Quietly funneling your behavior to trackers would work against the whole point of a focus tool.
Status
Tomopomo is shipped and live, with a modest, organic user base — people who found it and kept coming back, with no growth machinery behind it. I'm its most active user, which is the bar I want a focus app to clear: a tool I actually live in.
By the numbers · as of May 2026
- ~370 hours of focused work logged (about 15 days)
- 359 completed sessions, of 446 started
- 80.7% completion rate — once a session starts, it usually finishes
The numbers are small in absolute terms — but the completion rate is the part I'm proud of: the tool does the one thing it exists to do.