Anchorite
Focus blocker you can’t impulsively disable
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Anchorite is a focus blocker designed to make disabling it a deliberate choice instead of an impulse.
PH · launched Sep 6, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 2 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
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More like this: all 257 launches in distraction and screen time blockers →
Could you build this?
Yes Building an OS-level focus blocker (using Apple Screen Time API / Android Accessibility & UsageStats) with deliberate friction to disable is a well-understood mobile/desktop utility pattern.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 171 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #63 of 172 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 224 days after the earliest competitor.
- Focus Lock · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Focus Shield · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Focus Zip · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Focus Tycoon · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Do Not Distracted — Focus OS · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- literally Strict Focus Launcher · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Hardcore Website Blocker · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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