Scroll Brake Chrome Extension
Stop mindless tab-switching with mental math barriers
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Details
- External ID
- 1273379
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Scroll Brake Chrome Extension
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Productivity, Developer Tools
Description
Scroll Brake is now on Chrome! It stops mindless tab-switching by adding cognitive friction before distracting websites open: • Mental math barrier: Solve quick arithmetic to unlock sites. Each repeat unlock gets tougher. • Active-time tracking: The timer only ticks when you actively type, scroll, or move your mouse. • Surgical blocking: Block addictive feeds (like YouTube Shorts) while keeping tutorials open. • 100% private: Zero tracking, no accounts, runs locally.
Enrichment
- Niche
- web browsers and extension tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mental math distraction blocker for web browsers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple Chrome extension utilizing standard WebExtension APIs (declarativeNetRequest, content scripts) to intercept URLs and display a math challenge modal.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 183 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #94 of 184 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- Scroll Brake — App Blocker · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Unscroll · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ScrollLess · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Hourcess · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- UnifiWorkspace · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- boomrng — intentional browsing · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Locksy: Tab Locker & Password Protection · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ScrollPause · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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