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CartPause
A 72-hour pause between you and any online purchase
CartPause is a "pause before you buy" app that adds a timer between you and any online purchase. Instead of one-click checkout, you share an item to CartPause from any store, Amazon, Target, Walmart, anywhere, and a customizable timer starts. When it expires, decide if you still want it. Most people don't: 73% of paused items never get purchased, saving the average member around $2,400 a year! It's a simple loop: Pause → Reflect → Decide. Private, ad-free, $0 to start. Give it a try!
Hi PH 👋
I built CartPause after 16 years designing the systems that make buying frictionless at Microsoft and Amazon. I was the guy adding "one-click checkout" and "frequently bought together" to your screen. I was also the guy drowning in packages I barely remembered ordering.
The fix is simple in theory: wait before buying. In practice it's impossible to remember when the dopamine is flowing.
CartPause is the system I wish existed:
• See something you want → share to CartPause from any store (Amazon, Target, Etsy, Nike — anywhere with the iOS Share Sheet)
• A 72-hour timer starts. The item sits in a private cart, not a retailer's wishlist that's used to recommend more to you.
• When the timer ends, one notification: Buy it / Save for Someday / Skip
• Skipped items get logged in a running "saved" total
What we're seeing from real usage (not survey claims):
• 73% of paused items never get purchased — the urge fades on its own
• Average user keeps ~$2,400/year that would've been impulse spent
• Buyer's remorse on remaining purchases drops ~80%
Honest trade-offs:
• iPhone only today (Android on the roadmap)
• Free for 5 paused items at a time; Pro is $1.99/mo for unlimited + Someday list + widget
• Not a budgeting app. No envelopes, no transaction sync. Just the pause.
I'd especially love feedback on the share-extension flow as it's where the magic happens and where I think there's still room to make it feel even more invisible.
Happy to answer anything in the comments today 🙏
A launch-day-only freebie: free Pro for 30 days for anyone who comments
— Thank you, David
About CartPause on Product Hunt
“A 72-hour pause between you and any online purchase”
CartPause was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. CartPause is a "pause before you buy" app that adds a timer between you and any online purchase. Instead of one-click checkout, you share an item to CartPause from any store, Amazon, Target, Walmart, anywhere, and a customizable timer starts. When it expires, decide if you still want it. Most people don't: 73% of paused items never get purchased, saving the average member around $2,400 a year! It's a simple loop: Pause → Reflect → Decide. Private, ad-free, $0 to start. Give it a try!
On the analytics side, CartPause competes within iOS, Productivity and Personal Finance — topics that collectively have 769k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how CartPause performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted CartPause?
CartPause was hunted by David Rowell. 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 CartPause including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
David Rowell