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Earn screen time through focused work
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Productive work earns minutes. Leisure apps spend them. Run out, and they lock until you've done more work. For Mac and iPhone.
PH · launched Nov 10, 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
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
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Could you build this?
Partial The earn-minutes logic and UI are simple, but truly locking apps on iPhone and Mac requires Apple's restricted Screen Time and system-level APIs that vibe coding alone won't navigate.
What it would actually take: Build a SwiftUI app for iOS and macOS that tracks focus sessions and uses Apple's FamilyControls/ManagedSettings (Screen Time) frameworks to shield apps. The hard part is obtaining the Family Controls entitlement from Apple and implementing reliable, tamper-resistant blocking on macOS, which needs native systems expertise. Budget time for App Store review constraints as well.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 551 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #249 of 552 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
- TimeBlocks: Work Journal · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- I did it! Chore & Reward Chart · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- EarnTime · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- StrollTime · ph · 2026-10-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Motive: Focus Tree App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Safini · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Simple ScreenTime · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Tempo · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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