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Doomscrolling is free. Orbit makes it cost something. Pick a schedule and your apps lock themselves. Want back in early? Earn it: hold the orb, do squats, ask a friend, pay a little more each time, or win a shift at The Gate. Most times, you’ll stay out.

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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 207 upvotes (top 1%)

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Partial The scheduling, friend-approval, payment, and gamified unlock UI are vibe-codeable. Actually locking other apps on iOS or Android depends on platform-specific screen-time and device-management APIs, which need native code and entitlements that are hard to get and debug.

What it would actually take: Build a native iOS app in Swift and SwiftUI, using Apple's FamilyControls and DeviceActivity frameworks to shield apps on a schedule. This requires Apple's Family Controls entitlement, which Apple grants selectively. Motion-based unlocks like squats can use CoreMotion or Vision, and payments can use StoreKit or Stripe. The hard parts are the platform entitlement and making app blocking reliable against user workarounds, which need iOS platform expertise.

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Attention rank: #1 of 134 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 286 days after the earliest competitor.

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