Random Focus
Break screen time with real-world photo challenges
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Details
- External ID
- 1265078
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Random Focus
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- iOS, Productivity, Privacy
Description
Random Focus turns screen-time control into a game. Every 30 minutes to 10 hours (your choice), find and photograph a real object—or take a daily selfie—before the timer ends. On-device AI checks each shot. Complete the challenge to earn coins and keep streaks; miss it and your selected distracting apps are blocked. Set sleep hours and keep a private Presence Diary. Free to download with in-app purchases. Native for iPhone and iPad, iOS 17+.
Enrichment
- Niche
- distraction and screen time blockers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- real-world photo challenges to reduce screen time
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the gamification and timer UI are straightforward, enforcing strict device-level app blocking based on real-time triggers alongside reliable on-device vision classification requires specialized mobile system APIs.
What it would actually take: A native mobile app (Swift for iOS Screen Time API / FamilyControls or Kotlin on Android using AccessibilityService and Device Admin). On-device ML uses CoreML or TensorFlow Lite (MobileNet/YOLO) for fast object recognition. The tricky parts are navigating strict OS restrictions on app-blocking permissions and running reliable, low-power background timers and on-device image validation without OS termination.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 529 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #271 of 530 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- Quick Timeout · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Pausean: Calm Focus Timer · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- TimeCam · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- SETL: Focus on Life by Less Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Limitly · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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