granny
strict task enforcer, anti digital distraction on MacOS
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Details
- External ID
- 1273533
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- granny
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Productivity, Task Management, Open Source, GitHub
Description
Work first, play after. granny blocks the entertainment while your tasks are open, checks your claims, and unlocks the fun only when the list is done.
Enrichment
- Niche
- distraction and screen time blockers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- distraction blocker and task enforcer for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a native macOS app that monitors running processes, intercepts network/app launches, and actively verifies task completion requires low-level macOS system APIs and permissions.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift/Objective-C development using macOS system extensions (Network Extension framework, Endpoint Security, or Accessibility APIs) to monitor application state and block distraction apps/websites. Verifying task completion automatically often requires desktop automation hooks or local computer-vision screen analysis, all requiring elevated macOS permissions and notarization.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 156 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 157 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- Chunk · ph · 2026-10-06 · 94 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- JigTail · ph · 2026-10-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Focus Firewall · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Distraction Free · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Mino · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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