WEEK 1 · JAN 1–7
THE FLOOR
−110 / day
know your delta.
virtues minus vices. one number, every day. talyq scores what you actually did — including the parts you don’t talk about.
claim a founding seat → of 50 founding seats remaining.JANUARY 2026 · DAY 28 OF 28 · FIRST POSITIVE WEEK
twenty-eight days.
one number per day.
january 2026. the operator used talyq daily for 28 days. cigarettes held at 3/day all month. nothing was added without something being subtracted. the data below is what that looks like.
this is the founder's actual manual ledger. january 2026, kept in a spreadsheet before the app existed. talyq is what the spreadsheet became.
WEEK 2 · JAN 8–14
THE DIP
−125 / day
WEEK 3 · JAN 15–21
THE TURN
−19 / day
WEEK 4 · JAN 22–28
FIRST POSITIVE
+14 / day
“subtracting a vice is worth more than adding a virtue. the month proves it. sixty-eight percent of the recovery came from cutting things out — not from doing more.”
— THE OPERATOR · MONTH 01
FROM CUTTING VICES
+595
68% of total improvement
FROM ADDING VIRTUES
+275
32% of total improvement
most self-improvement apps lie. talyq does the opposite.
most apps reward you for opening them. they hide your bad days behind streaks and badges. they tell you you’re doing great when you’re not.
talyq does the opposite. you define what counts as good. you define what counts as bad. the score is the difference — including the days you’d rather forget.
no streaks. no celebration. no flattery. just a number. what you actually did, expressed as arithmetic.
if the number goes up, you improved. if it goes down, you didn’t. that’s the whole product.
WHAT IT IS
- a private daily ledger
- user-defined virtues and vices, weighted by you
- your data on your device, never on a server
- one number per day. the truth.
- a license key you paste once. no account, no email, no login.
WHAT IT ISN’T
- a wellness app
- a meditation or mood tracker
- a coach, a guru, or a friend
- a streak-based habit tracker
- anything that needs your data to work
fifty seats. one-time payment. keep lifetime access.
talyq’s first fifty paying users get lifetime access to every paid feature, ever. not a year. not until you stop paying. when the fifty seats are gone, this offer closes. it does not return.
$30 isn’t pricing. it’s a filter. free attracts the wrong users. $30 attracts people who mean it — people willing to bet on a solo product in its first month. that signal matters more than the price.
after the fifty, talyq is $9/month or $72/year. founding members never pay either. your data lives on your device. talyq never sees it. you receive a license key by email within 24 hours. paste it once. done.
the obvious ones.
- do i need an account?
- no. there is no signup, no email, no password. your license key unlocks the app. your data lives in your browser’s local storage.
- what if i clear my browser data?
- your history lives in local storage. clear the browser, lose the data — that’s honest. export to csv from settings before anything risky. cloud sync is on the roadmap; founding members migrate first when it ships.
- why is this $30 instead of free?
- free attracts the wrong users. founding members are betting on the long-term product. that signal matters more than the price.
- what happens when the 50 seats sell out?
- the founding offer closes permanently. talyq becomes $9/month or $72/year. founding members never pay either.