The story behind TaskPomo

Hi, I'm Samet Yigit. I studied mathematics in university, then spent the last twelve years running Google Ads and SEO for a few hundred businesses through my consultancy, Cryptosam. Somewhere along the way I became a Google Partner, and somewhere else along the way I got tired of productivity tools that looked pretty in screenshots and fell apart on a real workday.

For years I needed one simple thing: a way to plan my own work that didn't quietly collapse by Wednesday. I tried everything on the market. Some tools were beautiful but forgot about focus. Some had timers but no tasks. None gave me one clean place where I could say this is the task, this is the time I actually spent on it, and here's what it taught me about my real capacity.

So I built it for myself. That app became TaskPomo.

I'm TaskPomo's biggest user

Every feature you see in the app, I test first on my own workdays. Every bug is usually one I hit while trying to finish real client work. I'm not guessing what matters. I'm running my whole consultancy through this thing — Google Ads reports, SEO audits, client calls, personal study sessions, and the next TaskPomo release all live inside it.

That's also why the app gets updated so often. When something annoys me on a Tuesday, I usually fix it the same week. When a feature idea survives a week of my own use, it ships. When it doesn't, it quietly dies in a notebook.

How a TaskPomo update actually starts

Most features don't start in a project management board. They start on a notepad, usually late at night, when I'm thinking about something that bugged me during the day. The math-major brain in me still wants to prove things on paper before I trust them in code.

These aren't staged photos I took for a blog post. This is genuinely how every release starts. Sometimes it's one page. Sometimes it's ten. Every update TaskPomo has ever shipped has a notebook page like this behind it somewhere.

What TaskPomo is trying to be

Not the prettiest Pomodoro timer. Not the one with the most features. The one that respects that focus is genuinely hard, that most days don't go to plan, and that real work means showing up again tomorrow anyway.

The app is free for the core features, and the pro tier exists so I can keep improving it without having to turn it into an ad-infested nightmare. That's the whole business model. No venture capital pressure, no growth hacks, no pivot to crypto.

How to reach me

If you find a rough edge, email me. I'm the one who reads those emails. I also post updates and behind-the-scenes on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube. If you want to write about TaskPomo, or just tell me what you wish the app did differently, I genuinely want to hear it. I've been on both sides of a blank productivity tool long enough to know that the small suggestions are usually the ones that fix the biggest problems.

— Samet