Do It First
Lock your apps until you do what matters
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Do It First is an iPhone app blocker that locks Instagram, TikTok or any app you choose at a set time until you finish a real task you planned — read 10 pages, study 30 minutes, go for a run — and confirm it with a photo. Every mission earns XP, keeps your streak, unlocks medals and evolves a pixel-art companion through five worlds. Built on Apple Screen Time, no account, your data stays on your iPhone. Free to start; Pro adds up to 10 protected missions.
PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 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
- iOS
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial The mission, XP, and photo-verification flows are vibe-codeable, but app locking on iPhone depends on Apple's restricted Screen Time APIs, which need entitlement approval and specialized platform work.
What it would actually take: Build in native Swift/SwiftUI using Apple's FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity frameworks to shield apps at scheduled times. Apple must approve the Family Controls entitlement before distribution. Photo verification can use an on-device or cloud vision model, and gamification is ordinary app logic.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1002 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #183 of 1003 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 369 days after the earliest competitor.
- 67: app blocker · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- FlashLock · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- SimranLock · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Calma · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Moat · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Screen Time Control: Block App · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- CallFirst · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- AppBlockr · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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