Hushtown
A tiny town that grows on nights you leave your phone alone
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Blockers ask for willpower exactly when you're tired at night. Hushtown tries a reward instead: set your bedtime and wake-up time and leave the phone alone. If the night was quiet, a new building stands in your town in the morning. One missed night a week is forgiven, checking the time doesn't count, and the app doesn't need to stay open. Free on Android, no account.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Android
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial The town-building reward loop and sleep schedule are easy to vibe-code, but reliably detecting phone checks at night depends on platform-restricted APIs (iOS Screen Time, Android usage access) that need careful native work and permissions.
What it would actually take: Build a mobile app (React Native or native) with a town-state backend and a sleep-window scheduler. The hard part is passive phone-use detection, which needs Apple's Screen Time/FamilyControls entitlements and Android UsageStats, so the app has to be designed around what the OS allows and be approved by the app stores.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 621 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #275 of 622 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dimly · ph · 2026-10-31 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Connections – Sleep Mode · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Curfew · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Dawnova: Morning Sunlight · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Nightcap · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- HushNest · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HyperSleep · ph · 2026-06-12 · 237 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Sleepward: Bedtime Routine · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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