Lessly
Pause before distracting sites, then choose how long to stay
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Details
- External ID
- 1277688
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lessly
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity
Description
Lessly adds a short, calm pause before the sites you open out of habit. Leave in one click or pick a timed visit, with a tiny floating timer while you stay. Free, no account, no tracking, everything stays on your device.
Enrichment
- Niche
- ad and digital distraction blockers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- distraction blocker for web browsing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a simple browser extension using declarativeNetRequest or webNavigation APIs with a content script to inject a pause modal and timer overlay.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 589 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #277 of 590 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- TOCus · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Limitly · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Pausean: Calm Focus Timer · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Calm Down Fast · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- ScrollPause · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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