Focus Firewall
Block distracting websites while you work
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Focus Firewall blocks distracting websites and apps on your Mac while you work. Set your hours once and it runs by itself, in every major browser, with no extensions. New: the Browsing Report shows where your day went, hour by hour, with a focus score that leaves room for planned breaks. Also new: require Touch ID or password to stop blocking. No account, and nothing leaves your Mac. Free for 7 days.
PH · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 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
- Social Media
- Time Tracking
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Could you build this?
Partial The dashboard and reporting UI are simple, but blocking traffic across all browsers on macOS without browser extensions requires low-level system networking extensions.
What it would actually take: The core application must be a native macOS app (Swift/Objective-C) implementing a Network Extension (specifically NEFilterDataProvider or local proxy via PacketTunnelProvider) to inspect and drop TCP/UDP/DNS packets without extensions. Developing and distributing network system extensions requires special macOS Developer entitlements from Apple, low-level socket handling, and privileged helper tools to track active foreground applications and manage DNS resolution.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 735 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #80 of 736 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
- Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- Block Site by OrangeBot · ph · 2026-10-28 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Hardcore Website Blocker · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Do Not Distracted — Focus OS · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- FocusShield · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Limitly · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Focus Shield · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Screen Time Control: Block App · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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