App that crosses an hour off your day when you open a distraction
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HN · launched Apr 27, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and grid visualization are simple, but reliably tracking per-app foreground usage on iOS requires working within Apple's tightly restricted FamilyControls and ScreenTime/DeviceActivity frameworks.
What it would actually take: The app needs a Swift/SwiftUI frontend alongside an implementation of Apple's DeviceActivityReport, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivityMonitor extension targets. The primary challenge is navigating Apple's restricted FamilyControls entitlements, managing strict sandboxed execution limits on background extensions, and handling the opaque opaque token system used to identify apps without violating privacy policies.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 819 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #794 of 820 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 174 days after the earliest competitor.
- App that shows your screen-free hours every time you look at your phone · hn · 2026-06-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Jot, a menu bar app that catches a thought before it's gone · hn · 2026-07-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Slow Time Club · ph · 2026-11-10 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Lock In-Out · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Pausean: Calm Focus Timer · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Screen Time Control: Block App · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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