Hourcess
A smarter way to break the scroll and choose what matters.
Details
- External ID
- 1232561
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hourcess
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.34585152838427946
- Tags
- Health & Fitness, Productivity, Tech
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Hourcess helps you break unwanted scrolling by giving you one relevant alternative instead of blocking the apps you use. Tell Hourcess what matters to you, choose the apps where you tend to lose time, and when the moment comes, Hourcess gives you another choice. No blocking. No guilt. Just a better option.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital wellbeing and distraction blockers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen time blocker for social media feeds
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building an effective app-interception mechanism requires native mobile platform permissions (Screen Time API on iOS or Accessibility/UsageStats on Android) which have severe platform constraints and strict app store review hurdles.
What it would actually take: On iOS, this requires deep integration with the ManagedSettings and DeviceActivity frameworks (Family Controls), which have strict entitlement requirements and limited sandbox capabilities. On Android, it requires native Kotlin services handling Accessibility and UsageStats permissions to detect foreground app changes and draw overlays reliably without draining battery.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 88 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #56 of 89 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.
- Unscroll · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Nomo: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Curfew · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Scroll Brake — App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- App that crosses an hour off your day when you open a distraction · hn · 2026-04-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ScrollLess · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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