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Moat

The app blocker where a person holds the key

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Moat blocks the apps that eat your evenings, on the days and hours you set, at the system level (Apple Screen Time). To unlock early you breathe, hold for two seconds, and ask a person you trust for a one-time code. They mint it on a private page in ten seconds, no app, no account, and they see how often you asked. No feed, no points, no leaderboards. Pay monthly, yearly, or once. iPhone.

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PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)

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Could you build this?

Partial The blocking logic and one-time-code flow are straightforward, but system-level blocking depends on Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) framework, which requires native iOS development and Apple's entitlement approval.

What it would actually take: Build a native iOS app in Swift using FamilyControls, ManagedSettings and DeviceActivity, plus a small web page for trusted-person code minting. The hard parts are Apple's restricted entitlement and App Store review, and making the blocking reliable across iOS restrictions. This needs iOS platform expertise and a backend for codes.

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Attention rank: #287 of 563 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.

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