Mentro - Focus with a companion
Timer with an animated companion that blocks tabs
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Most Pomodoro timers just count down. Mentro puts an animated companion in your browser that reacts the moment you drift: it calls out off-task tabs, blocks them, groups the rest by task, and calls you back after breaks. Six companions, three free. No ads, no trackers.
PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: focus and countdown timer apps · 195 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -5% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Productivity
- Time Tracking
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a standard browser extension utilizing the Chrome Tabs and declarativeNetRequest APIs for tab blocking, coupled with a simple timer and CSS/canvas sprite animations.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 187 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 188 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 76 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pomro · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- PomoFriends · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- FocusOS · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- LifeKPI Pomodoro · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Browser Pomodoro Timer · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- tomatofocus · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Meanwhile · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Dabadoro Pomodoro Timer · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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