Yellow: Slow Your Scroll
The dumbphone alternative for people who need their iPhone
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Keep Maps, Uber and Apple Pay. Yellow puts a math problem before the apps you open on autopilot; they open for 3, 5, 10 or 15 minutes, then lock again. iPhone only. 7-day trial, then $29.99/yr or $5.99/mo.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 7%) · 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
- Productivity
- Lifestyle
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and math-gate concept are easy, but a real iOS version depends on Apple's Screen Time APIs (FamilyControls, ManagedSettings), which require a special entitlement and App Review approval. Vibe coding can produce the Swift, but the permissions and shielding mechanics are the hard part.
What it would actually take: Build a native SwiftUI app with a Family Controls and ManagedSettings shield extension, a DeviceActivity monitor, and a StoreKit subscription. The hard part is getting Apple's Family Controls entitlement approved and making the app-blocking reliable across iOS versions. That requires iOS platform experience and a plan for App Review.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 751 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #59 of 752 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 371 days after the earliest competitor.
- WalkThen · ph · 2026-10-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- RemindClock · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- FlashLock · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DrillLock · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Quick Timeout · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Latch · ph · 2026-10-18 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MacAway · ph · 2026-10-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Lagom · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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