ShieldBrain Reels Counter App
Stop Doom Scroll
Details
- External ID
- 1255334
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ShieldBrain Reels Counter App
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Productivity, Social Media, Social Impact
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
ShieldBrain is a dedicated tool designed to help you regain control over your attention span by targeting the exact source of digital distraction. ShieldBrain is not a generic app blocker that locks you out of your entire phone. Instead, it serves as a specialized short video counter and blocker. It allows you to maintain access to your direct messages, stories, and main feed while strictly limiting your exposure to the infinite scrolling algorithm.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- reels usage tracker and limiter for mobile users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The dashboard and tracking UI are simple to vibe-code, but inspecting and detecting short-form video scrolls inside third-party apps like Instagram and YouTube requires fragile Android AccessibilityService hooks.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a native Android app in Kotlin running a persistent background `AccessibilityService` that parses real-time `AccessibilityNodeInfo` tree hierarchies and scroll events from target apps. The hard part is reverse-engineering undocumented UI view IDs and layouts for apps like TikTok and Instagram, maintaining compatibility as those apps update their UI obfuscation, and passing Google Play's strict policy reviews for accessibility abuse. This requires experienced Android systems developers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 94 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #48 of 95 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 238 days after the earliest competitor.
- Scroll Brake — App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Nomo: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Unscroll · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- UnRot · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ScrollLess · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Pray Shield · ph · 2026-09-26 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Blocklyn: App & Site Blocker · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Stop Me: Quit Doomscrolling · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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