Resurface
App Blocker & Focus Timer
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Opened your phone for a second and lost half an hour? Resurface puts one dial between you and the apps that pull you under. Pause adds a 5-second wait before a distracting app opens. Focus blocks them, and each unlock waits longer. Offline leaves only your essential apps until the session ends. Set a schedule and it turns on by itself.
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- iPad
- Apple
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See all 381 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial A blocker and focus timer is easy to build as a web or browser-extension prototype. A real mobile version depends on platform-level app-blocking APIs (iOS Screen Time, Android accessibility or device-admin) that are restrictive and hard to get working reliably.
What it would actually take: On iOS this means the FamilyControls and ManagedSettings frameworks, which need entitlements from Apple, and on Android it means accessibility services or device-policy APIs that often trigger store review issues. Getting the blocking to hold against workarounds and to persist through reboots is the hard, platform-specific part. Native mobile experience with OS-level expertise is required.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 381 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #197 of 382 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- FocusPass: App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Lock Me Out: Stop Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- FocusPhone · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- FocusShield · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- FoldFocus · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- tamatem · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Pausean: Calm Focus Timer · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54