Anti-Dopa
A countdown and a reason before you open an app.
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Anti-Dopa adds a pause before you open social media or video apps: a countdown, then you write why you're opening it. The wait grows each time you use it. Nothing is forbidden. You decide. Your data stays on your device. No account, no ads.
PH · launched Nov 14, 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
- Android
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial The countdown and reflection prompt are simple, but blocking or intercepting other apps requires OS-level permissions, and iOS restricts this heavily.
What it would actually take: On Android it means an accessibility service or UsageStats monitoring with an overlay; on iOS it needs Apple's Screen Time/FamilyControls API, which requires an entitlement Apple must approve. Real-time app detection and reliable overlays across OS versions take native mobile expertise and platform-policy navigation beyond vibe coding alone.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 379 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #166 of 380 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- Stop Me: Quit Doomscrolling · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ScrollPause · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Offimo · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Pause App Blocker · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Lessly · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Pause · ph · 2026-09-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Do It First · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Nomo: App Blocker & Focus · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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