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App that crosses an hour off your day when you open a distraction

Details

External ID
47918292
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
App that crosses an hour off your day when you open a distraction
Website domain
apple.com
Launched
April 27, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.11182519280205655
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
digital minimalism and focus tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Workflow automation
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
time tracking blocker for distracting websites
Manually corrected
False

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.

Discussion

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 360 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #341 of 361 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 174 days after the earliest competitor.

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