Hold My Key: App Blocker
An offline 2FA app blocker where a friend holds your key
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Hold My Key locks distracting iPhone apps behind a 6-digit TOTP code held by a friend. They scan a standard QR code into their existing authenticator—no app install, accounts, or servers needed. Enter a code for a 15-min pass before protection returns.
PH · launched Nov 13, 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
- Security
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and TOTP pairing flow are easy to vibe-code in SwiftUI, but the app-blocking mechanism depends on Apple's Screen Time APIs, which are restrictive and hard to get right.
What it would actually take: Build a native SwiftUI app using FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity, with TOTP verification via a standard RFC 6238 library and no backend. The hard parts are obtaining Apple's Family Controls entitlement, which Apple reviews, and handling Screen Time edge cases reliably. This requires iOS platform expertise and an Apple Developer account, not just AI-generated code.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 484 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #220 of 485 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
- Moat · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- 67: app blocker · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Latch · ph · 2026-10-18 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Indistractable · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- FlashLock · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Pause App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Do It First · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- AppLocker · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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