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Doomstep
A joint account for screen time. Deposits are steps.
Many screen time apps make your friend a gatekeeper. Doomstep makes them a teammate. Your apps stay locked until you walk: every 100 steps earns 1 minute. Pair up and you both deposit steps into one shared bank either of you can spend. Your apps stay private.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Eric, and I built Doomstep.
Doomstep started as an app for one person: lock the apps that eat your day, and walk to earn your time back. Then I got the idea to do it with a friend. It's more fun with someone, it turns into a challenge, and it's a lot harder to skip a walk when someone else is counting on your steps. So I built Together, a joint account for screen time.
How it works: pick the apps you want to use less, like Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, and they stay locked until you walk. Every 100 steps earns 1 minute. Spend minutes on a 5, 15 or 30 minute break, and when it ends the apps lock again, even if Doomstep is closed.
With Together, you pair up with one friend and both deposit steps into one shared bank. Either of you can spend the minutes. You see each other's steps and minutes, never each other's apps. You can ask your friend to walk now, watch both step counts climb, and send postcards from the walk.
Going solo works too, with a weekly leaderboard, walk receipts and a Day off you earn after four goal days in a row.
iPhone only for now (US, Canada and Australia), with a 7-day free trial.
I'd love your feedback: who would you open a joint account with, and what would make you keep it on?
About Doomstep on Product Hunt
“A joint account for screen time. Deposits are steps.”
Doomstep was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #292 on the daily leaderboard. Many screen time apps make your friend a gatekeeper. Doomstep makes them a teammate. Your apps stay locked until you walk: every 100 steps earns 1 minute. Pair up and you both deposit steps into one shared bank either of you can spend. Your apps stay private.
On the analytics side, Doomstep competes within iOS, Health & Fitness and Productivity — topics that collectively have 860k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Doomstep performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Doomstep?
Doomstep was hunted by Eric Johnson. 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.
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