Cortex
Earn your scrolling. Change the rules by voice.
Details
- External ID
- 1253599
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cortex
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Do a few push-ups, hold a plank or go for a walk. Earn time in your browsers and X. Cortex lets you tune activities, rewards and limits by voice or text. Tell it what to change, review it, approve it. A small Android experiment in using your phone on purpose.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- voice-controlled screen time limiter for smartphone users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The companion UI and voice parsing are straightforward, but building a reliable background Android app that enforces app blocking via Accessibility APIs and verifies real-time camera/GPS tasks requires non-trivial low-level Android engineering.
What it would actually take: The app requires a Kotlin/Java Android build interacting with Android AccessibilityService, UsageStatsManager, and Device Administration APIs to intercept app launches reliably across Android OS versions. It requires integrating real-time voice streaming with an LLM for configuration, plus computer vision models (e.g., MediaPipe or server-side vision APIs) to verify push-ups/planks from camera feeds. Android developers must navigate aggressive OS background execution limits, battery optimizations, and security permission restrictions.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #93 of 169 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
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