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Focus Tycoon

An app blocker that asks for a breath, not a lockout

Details

External ID
1229660
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
Focus Tycoon
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Sept. 15, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
1
Upvotes percentile
0.30815693820825313
Tags
iOS, Productivity, Health
Fetched at
Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.

Description

Open a blocked app and you meet a gate, not a wall. It asks for one breath, then you decide: hold still, or breathe a few cycles, and it opens for a few minutes. There is always an "I need this now" button, and it always works. Blocking is free here. Schedules, profiles, gate style, pass length. Forever. Around it: a focus timer, workouts, habits, breathwork, a free first-aid kit and a Nights room. Every focused minute draws a transit map. iPhone. Offline. No ads. Data stays on your phone.

Enrichment

Theme
digital minimalism and focus tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Workflow automation
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
screen time blocker with breathing exercises
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Creating a calm UI with breathing timers is simple, but intercepting and gating app launches on modern mobile OSes (especially iOS FamilyControls/ScreenTime or Android Accessibility/UsageStats) requires nuanced native permissions and platform APIs.

What it would actually take: On iOS, this requires Apple's DeviceActivity, ManagedSettings, and FamilyControls frameworks, which require special developer entitlements from Apple and deep native Swift coding. On Android, it involves an AccessibilityService or UsageStatsManager combined with SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW overlays, both of which face severe Google Play restrictions and battery optimization edge cases.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 283 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #164 of 284 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.

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