The founder
Stevan Ljuljdurovic
Founder, Habit Huddle. Lakeshore, Ontario, Canada.
Why I built Habit Huddle
Habit Huddle started as a simple group chat with about 8 friends and $100 bucks on the line each. If you missed your checkin you lost your money... turns out that was a bad idea!
I was annoyed that I had to check every day to see if people had done their checkins, so naturally as a software developer I started working on a bot that could do it for me.
As I had just put the finishing touches on the first version of Habit Huddle, my wife tapped me on the shoulder and said "it's time to go". Shortly after I was holding my first son.
As I write these words now my wife is upstairs and I'm expecting her to tap me on the shoulder any minute and tell me it's time to go meet my second son.
I hope this project inspires my kids one day.
Live from my account
The habits I'm tracking right now
Pulled straight from Habit Huddle. Each one has a floor for bad days and a ceiling for good ones. Tap any of them to see the habit page and copy it.
15 min workout
Ceiling: 30 min workout
I'm consistently in good shape.
Open my code editor
Ceiling: Ship something to production.
I am a disciplined and focused coder
Drink 1.2L water bottle.
Ceiling: Drink 2.4L of water.
I am someone who prioritizes their health by staying hydrated.
Read 10 pages
Ceiling: Read 14 pages
I read non-fiction.
Take care of cats
Ceiling: Complete full cat care routine
I am a caring cat dad.
Post one short video to TikTok
Ceiling: Post one short video to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube
I am a consistent and prolific content creator
The journey
University athlete
University of Windsor. Honours Bachelor of Computer Science, software engineering, 2010.
2008
Started Navetz, a software business that is still running. Learned how to build things people pay for.
2012
Bought a first rental property and lived in it. Have owned and managed rentals ever since, expanding one at a time.
2014 to 2016
Product manager at Splice Digital, running small remote teams.
Somewhere in there
Tried modeling. Failed. It is going better with the app.
2016
Completely renovated a dilapidated house. It is a rental today.
2016 to 2021
Streamed on Twitch and played semi-professionally. Immortal rank in Dota 2, more than 10,000 hours, and 150+ tutorials on YouTube.
2017 to 2023
COO of Warp World, the venture backed Chicago company behind Crowd Control, where Twitch viewers interact with a streamer's game live.
2024
Habit Huddle gets its first users in April. Built every day since.
What I believe
The three virtues
Strength, knowledge, and love are the three fundamental virtues. Every other virtue derives from one of them. Each one splits into two branches.
Strength
Knowledge
Love
None of the three can be bought. They can only be earned, which makes them the most valuable things a person can obtain.
The work of a life is figuring out how to balance them.
Habit Huddle's six habit categories are these six branches. Health and Mind, Theory and Skills, Self and Social. Every habit in the app earns one of them.
Ten pages a day
What I've been reading
Ten pages minimum, every day. Listed from what I read latest to earliest. I can speak to any of these and how the ideas held up once I tried them.
For podcast hosts
Media kit
Everything you need to book me and prep the episode. Reach me at stevan@habithuddle.com.
Receipts, not theory
Real streaks in the hundreds of days, real rentals, real rank. Your listeners hear what worked from someone still doing it every morning, not a summary of someone else's book.
I know how to make content
150+ YouTube tutorials and five years streaming on Twitch. I show up prepared, I talk in clips, and I post one short video a day. It is one of the habits above.
Your episode gets shared
To the Habit Huddle community on Discord, to my channels, and clipped for short form. My channels are still growing, so I will not pretend they are the reason to book me. The conversation is.
Short bio
Stevan Ljuljdurovic is a former university athlete turned software business owner turned failed model turned semi-pro gamer turned founder. He found his life passion with Habit Huddle, a place where friends keep each other showing up for their habits. It's going better than the modeling.
Links
- habithuddle.com (the link to share with listeners)
- Twitch: @navetz
- YouTube: @navetz
- TikTok: @habitsteve
- Instagram: @thehabitsteve
- X: @navetz
- Habit Huddle Discord community
- Download headshot
Topics I can go deep on
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The three virtues
Strength, knowledge, and love. Every other virtue derives from one of them, each splits in two, and none can be bought. How to earn all three and keep them in balance.
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Who you want to become
Everyone quotes the identity idea. Almost nobody explains why enjoying the process beats chasing the outcome, or how to set a habit up that way.
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Floor and Ceiling
Every habit needs a floor small enough for your worst day and a ceiling worth chasing on your best one. Why "do the whole workout or nothing" quietly kills most habits.
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Streaks, loss aversion, and the reset problem
Streaks work because losing one hurts. That same feeling is why people quit after a reset. How to keep the upside without the crash.
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Accountability contracts
Write the habit down, name the stakes, get a witness to sign. Why a promise on paper outperforms a promise in your head, when stakes backfire, and what I learned from building contracts into an app.
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Why habit groups die in week three
Most groups fall apart within weeks. It took years of iterations to learn what keeps one checking in for years instead.
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The Checkin Chain
Each member who checks in adds a link. Seasons reset the race. Why a group metric measured in links, not days, keeps a huddle fresh.
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Boring habits bought my rental properties
Rentals since 2012, starting by living in them. A dilapidated house fully renovated in 2016. None of it came from a big move. All of it came from small daily ones.
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10,000 hours in Dota 2
Immortal rank, five years streaming, 150+ tutorials. What competitive gaming teaches about deliberate practice, plateaus, and playing better when people are watching.
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Anything on the reading list above
Ten pages a day for years adds up. Happy to go deep on any of those books and how the ideas held up in practice.
Sample questions
- You call yourself a failed model and a semi-pro gamer. What did the detours teach you that the wins didn't?
- What was the one habit that changed everything for you?
- You say strength, knowledge, and love are the only three virtues and everything else derives from them. Make the case.
- What is the difference between "what I want to achieve" and "who I want to become", and why does it matter for a habit?
- What is a habit floor, and why do you think most people set their bar too high?
- Streaks motivate people and they also break people. Where do you land?
- Do accountability contracts with real stakes work, or do they just make quitting more expensive?
- Why do most habit groups fall apart within weeks, and what actually keeps one going for years?
- What did six years building for Twitch audiences teach you about how people behave when someone is watching?
- You bought your first rental in 2012 by living in it. How much of that was strategy and how much was habit?
- What does reaching Immortal rank in Dota 2 have in common with keeping a habit for 700 days?
- What would you say to someone who has restarted the same habit ten times?
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