PactMe
Stop doomscrolling with a time limit you set every time
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I built PactMe because I'd open a short video app "for 5 minutes" and look up an hour later, still scrolling. The fix: decide how long before you open it. Every time you open an app you picked, PactMe asks "How long this time?" You pick 5, 10, 15 minutes. When time's up, it reminds you or walks you out. A cooldown starts. Stay out = kept your word. Open again = broke it. End of the week, you see your kept rate.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 37 in the last 7 days ▲ +28% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
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More like this: all 257 launches in distraction and screen time blockers →
Could you build this?
Yes The concept is a time-limit prompt that intercepts app opens, which is buildable with the iOS Screen Time APIs or Android usage-access and overlay permissions, plus a standard UI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 306 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #132 of 307 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
- Stop Me: Quit Doomscrolling · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- DoomSaver · ph · 2026-10-10 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Lessly · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Time Recovery · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ViralAri · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Recess: Stop Doomscrolling · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- NoShorts · ph · 2026-10-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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