Say hello to Pomodorii! 🎉 A Wii-inspired pomodoro timer that leans into joy and whimsy, designed and built end to end by me.
This started as a tiny sound-design playground and grew into one of my favorite builds. The goal is simple: add structure to your day while keeping the energy light and playful.
Pomodorii is a sound-first UI experiment that I shipped because it made me smile, and I think it might do the same for you.
Why I made it
I wanted a timer that feels like booting up a Wii: bright, bubbly, and unpretentious. Building Pomodorii let me play with motion and audio while keeping the product dead simple to use. Every interaction sounds different: picking up a task, starting the timer, hovering a close button. The UI stays readable by ear, with gentle transitions instead of harsh alarms and subtle motions and gradients that move in time with the cues. There is even a Wii-like themesong baked in because this one is meant to be fun.
Real-world usage
Pomodorii quickly became a hit at the school where my partner teaches. She started using it in her classroom, and before long her colleagues were asking about it. Teachers began adopting it for their own focus sessions and started providing feedback almost immediately—requests for longer break options, questions about customizing sounds, and ideas for classroom-specific features. Seeing it spread organically and hearing real feedback from daily users has been one of the most rewarding parts of this project.
Tech & design notes
Built with Next.js and React, styled in Tailwind CSS, and animated with Framer Motion, Pomodorii leans on a custom Web Audio setup for its cues and transitions. It ships as a lightweight single-page app so it loads quickly when all you want to do is start a session.
