Dopamine Tax: Screen Time & App Blocker
Money is the best motivator. Stop wasting it on screen time.
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Details
- External ID
- 1274199
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dopamine Tax: Screen Time & App Blocker
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Android, Productivity, Quantified Self
Description
An app blocker built around financial motivation. Dopamine Tax pairs real-time roasts and app locks with a live dashboard that converts time spent doomscrolling into money lost based on your subscription. Clean, ad-free, with zero bloat.
Enrichment
- Niche
- distraction and screen time blockers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen time blocker with financial penalties
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the dashboard and calculation logic are straightforward, enforcing reliable app blocking and screen time tracking requires native iOS Screen Time / FamilyControls APIs or Android Accessibility/UsageStats services that are tricky to configure properly.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift or Kotlin code integrating platform-specific MDM or Screen Time APIs (e.g., Apple's FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity frameworks) along with App Store entitlements that require specific Apple review approval. The backend involves standard subscription billing via RevenueCat or Stripe.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 139 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #71 of 140 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Money Block · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- LOCKD. Push to Earn ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Impedo: Insistent App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Block Apps: Blockmind · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Tempo · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39