I built an app that blocks social media until you read Quran daily
Details
- External ID
- 46560194
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Jan. 9, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3544137022397892
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN,I'm a solo developer from Nigeria. I built Quran Unlock - an app that blocks distracting apps (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) until you complete your daily Quran reading.The idea came from my own struggle with phone addiction. I wanted to read Quran daily but kept getting distracted. So I built this for myself, then shared it.Some stats after 2 months: - 123K+ users - 64.9% returning user rate - 31M events trackedTech stack: - React Native - Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Analytics, Cloud Messaging) - RevenueCat for subscriptions - iOS Screen Time API + Android UsageStatsApp Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/quran-unlock/id6754449406Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.quranu...Would love feedback from the HN community!
Enrichment
- Theme
- faith-based productivity and devotional tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- social media blocker with religious accountability
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The app interface, Quran reader, and streak tracking are easily vibe-coded, but enforcing system-level app blocking on iOS and Android requires strict OS-level permissions and framework expertise.
What it would actually take: Built with Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android) or React Native with native modules. The hard part is navigating platform-specific restrictions: Apple's FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity frameworks on iOS, and AccessibilityServices / UsageStatsManager / foreground services on Android. These APIs have strict entitlements, convoluted lifecycles, and Apple App Store review hurdles that require native platform engineering experience to configure and get approved.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: distraction is an issue
Competitors
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Attention rank: #79 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 68 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Quran Habit App · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- release version 2.0.1 · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PrayerShield · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- QuranKu · github · 2026-09-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Digital Carrot · hn · 2026-01-14 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Hack · hn · 2026-09-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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.