I built an idle game that rewards you for doomscrolling less
Details
- External ID
- 49880129
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I built an idle game that rewards you for doomscrolling less
- Website domain
- getisland.app
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4393939393939394
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- idle game for reducing screen time
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A web idle game is easy to build, but accessing and enforcing actual system screen time tracking requires native OS-level mobile integrations with restricted APIs.
What it would actually take: A real app requires native iOS/Android development using Apple's Screen Time API (FamilyControls and DeviceActivity frameworks) or Android's UsageStatsManager, requiring special platform entitlements and background daemon processes to securely feed usage metrics into the game progression engine.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Reward tiers with cooldown timers for restricted apps
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 254 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #139 of 255 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.