Yoink
Reduce screen time with friends!
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Yoink turns screen time into a social game. Your squad shares one bank of minutes, spend them on the apps you lock, and earn them back with walks, workouts and water.
PH · launched Sep 8, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial The gamification and shared balance backend can be vibe-coded, but enforcing app locking, tracking screen time, and verifying health activity requires native iOS/Android system APIs (Screen Time API/FamilyControls, HealthKit) with strict OS permissions and entitlements.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/Kotlin development with Apple FamilyControls and DeviceActivity frameworks, which cannot run in standard cross-platform vibe-coded web wrappers. Hard parts include passing Apple's strict entitlements review for Screen Time API access, handling background sync across multiple devices reliably, and reconciling HealthKit step/workout data with a shared backend database via Supabase or Firebase.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 241 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #82 of 242 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 227 days after the earliest competitor.
- YOINK · github · 2026-09-11 · 377 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Screen Time: Challenge Buddy · ph · 2026-10-20 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Simple ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- screentime · github · 2026-09-15 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Motive: Focus Tree App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Block Apps: Blockmind · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ScrollSmack · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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