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Abstenence
Pay a commitment fee to abstain from something for 2-5 days
Abstenence is a pay-to-commit habit tracker. Pick something to abstain from, stake $2–$100 on a short 2-5 day challenge, and pass or fail — no resets, no refunds. Real money makes discipline real.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Kelvin, the maker behind Abstenence.
I built this because I noticed something about myself and pretty much everyone I know: we're great at starting habit trackers and terrible at finishing them. There's no real cost to quitting — so nothing stops us from quitting.
So I added one. With Abstenence, you pick something to abstain from — social media, sugar, porn, nail biting, whatever's actually hard for you — and commit for a short window (2, 3, or 5 days). Starting at just $2, you choose your own stakes — up to $100 if you want to go all in. The amount isn't about unlocking features, it's about how seriously you take the next few days.
Pass, and you earn a PASS record — proof you followed through. Fail, and you lose the fee and get a FAIL record. No resets, no retries.
One of my favorite ways to use it is the Double Negative Challenge — instead of committing to "I'll read for 2 days," you commit to "I will not skip reading for 2 days." Small wording shift, but it turns a soft goal into a rule you're not allowed to break.
A few things that make it different from other habit trackers:
💰 You set your own stakes — starting at $2, up to $100, whatever makes it real for you
🔒 A-Plus Mode by default — no shortcuts, no fake progress, can't be turned off
📊 Simple pass/fail tracking — no bloated dashboards, just "did you hold the line"
📖 A companion activity book on Amazon — for an offline, reflective version
💬 Discord community — for people who want peer accountability too
I'd love your honest feedback — especially if you've tried and abandoned other accountability apps before. What made those fail for you?
Thanks for checking it out 🙏
About Abstenence on Product Hunt
“Pay a commitment fee to abstain from something for 2-5 days”
Abstenence was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #93 on the daily leaderboard. Abstenence is a pay-to-commit habit tracker. Pick something to abstain from, stake $2–$100 on a short 2-5 day challenge, and pass or fail — no resets, no refunds. Real money makes discipline real.
On the analytics side, Abstenence competes within Health & Fitness, Productivity, Amazon and Personal Finance — topics that collectively have 763.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Abstenence performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Abstenence?
Abstenence was hunted by Martins Kelvin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Abstenence including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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