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Cactus Website Blocker

Recurring website blocks for your Mac

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Cactus is a Mac app that blocks the websites you choose at the hours you choose, every week. Set the schedule once and each block starts on its own. The menu bar shows when access returns. It blocks websites only. App blocking isn't available yet.

PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: content and website blockers · 89 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -11% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Developer Tools

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Could you build this?

Partial A basic scheduled blocker is vibe-codeable, but reliable macOS blocking that resists circumvention needs system-level work (privileged helper or network extension, code signing, notarization) that AI-assisted coding handles poorly.

What it would actually take: A working version needs a Swift/AppKit menu bar app with a scheduler, plus a privileged helper or NetworkExtension content filter for enforcement that survives reboots and tampering. The hard parts are macOS entitlements, signing and notarization, and debugging system-level behavior. Someone comfortable with macOS internals and Apple's distribution rules is needed.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 69 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #13 of 70 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Cloister · ph · 2026-11-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • NetBlocker · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Kept · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • attention awareness · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Pause App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Bonk: Website Blocker & Focus Timer · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Chunk · ph · 2026-10-06 · 94 upvotes · similarity 0.43

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