Yoink
Reduce screen time with friends!
Details
- External ID
- 1243505
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Yoink
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Health & Fitness, Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- social app to reduce screen time
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 103 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 104 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 235 days after the earliest competitor.
- YOINK · github · 2026-09-11 · 377 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Simple ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- screentime · github · 2026-09-15 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Block Apps: Blockmind · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Disciplines: App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ScrollSmack · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- EarnTime · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PaceOut · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.