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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.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 259 launches, 32 in the last 7 days ▲ +14% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- OpenAI Day
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 350 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #303 of 351 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 172 days after the earliest competitor.
- ScrollTax · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ScrollFit :Focus & Screen time · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Calm Down Fast · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- StrollTime · ph · 2026-10-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- HonorFit · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Make Yourself · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- SloMo: Less Scrolling, More Living · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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