Dull
Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)
Details
- External ID
- 47606560
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dull
- Website domain
- getdull.app
- Launched
- April 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 153
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9331619537275064
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I kept deleting and redownloading Instagram because I couldn't stop watching Reels but needed the app for DMs. Tried screen time limits, just overrode them. So I built this.Dull loads Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and X and filters out short-form content with a mix of CSS and JS injection. MutationObserver handles anything that lazy-loads after the page renders, which is most of the annoying stuff since these platforms love to load content dynamically.The ongoing work is maintaining the filters. Platforms change their DOM all the time, Instagram obfuscates class names, YouTube restructures how Shorts appear in the feed, etc. It's a cat-and-mouse thing that never really ends.Also has grayscale mode, time limits, and usage tracking.Happy to answer questions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Instagram and short-form video utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- social media app without short videos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app is a standard WKWebView iOS wrapper that injects custom CSS and MutationObserver JavaScript to hide reels/shorts elements on mobile web pages.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Adblocking extensions, Beeper (unified messaging), Discord (notifications management)
Concerns raised: DOM changes require constant filter maintenance, Pricing model unclear/feels like paid wrapper around free extensions, Dark UI patterns (hidden free option, aggressive pricing popup), Only browser-based, no Android app available, Engagement filtering doesn't address root problem of low-value content
Feature requests: Android app support, Selective notifications (keep DMs as push, disable social media notifications), Redirect removed content time to alternative activities
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 144 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 145 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 150 days after the earliest competitor.
- Donzo · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels · hn · 2026-03-02 · 125 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- IGDL · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- open-in-native-browser · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- DownloadReels · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Indownmobi · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DescargaReels · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Fast Insta Downloader · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.