friends67
Ask your friends for more screen time, with a selfie
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friends67 locks Instagram, TikTok or any app when your daily limit is up. Want more time? Send your friends a selfie and a reason. In hardcore mode one of them has to say yes. Works across iPhone and Android, and one friend is enough. Free, with unlimited apps.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views
Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- iOS
- Productivity
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More like this: all 257 launches in distraction and screen time blockers →
Could you build this?
Partial The friend-approval flow and selfie workflow are simple to build. Blocking apps reliably is the hard part: on iOS it needs Apple's Screen Time/FamilyControls entitlement, and on Android it needs accessibility or usage-access permissions that the platforms scrutinise closely.
What it would actually take: Requires native iOS (FamilyControls/DeviceActivity, with Apple's entitlement approval) and Android (UsageStats/Accessibility services) apps, plus a backend for friend invites, photo upload, and notifications. The app-blocking layer is the critical piece and needs mobile platform expertise to survive OS updates and bypass attempts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1085 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 1086 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Waterbreak · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ChoiceField · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Do It First · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Cooked focus lock · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- 67: app blocker · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- FlashLock · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Friendsnap · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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