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Focus Buddy by SidePerch
The focus timer that lives at the edge of your Mac
Focus Buddy is a tiny native macOS widget that docks to any screen edge. One click expands it into a full focus card: Pomodoro or Flowmodoro timer, ambient rain, ocean and wind synthesized live on your Mac so they never loop, Spotify and Apple Music control, streaks, and insights. Finish a session and drop your stats on a photo, like posting a run. Local first: no account, no cloud, no telemetry. $15 once or $3 monthly, up to 3 Macs, 14 day refunds. No Electron. Just a few MB of Swift.
I want to be honest about why this app exists. I kept failing at focusing. Not because I lacked discipline apps, I had all of them, but because my timer always lived somewhere I could not see it. A tab behind thirty other tabs, a window behind my notes. Out of sight, and ten minutes later I was on my phone wondering where the session went.
So I built the thing I quietly wished existed: a small timer that sits at the edge of the screen, always in the corner of my eye, never in my way. Click it and it opens into a full focus card. Click away and it folds back into its corner. That tiny change, just making the timer visible, fixed more of my focus than any productivity system I ever tried.
Then I kept going, because focus is not only about a countdown. I gave it rain, ocean and wind that are generated live on your Mac, so the sound never loops and never needs internet. I gave it a streak, because I needed a reason to come back tomorrow. I gave it stats that eventually told me something embarrassing but useful: my brain is basically done after 9pm, and no amount of coffee changes that. And I gave it a share card, so when you finish a deep session you can put your hours on a photo and post it like a run. It sounds cheesy. It is also the thing that made the habit stick for me.
One promise I refused to compromise on: your data is nobody's business. There is no account, no cloud, no tracking. Everything stays on your Mac, and the app touches the internet exactly once, to activate your license.
It costs $15 once and it is yours forever, on up to 3 Macs, with every future update. There is a $3 monthly option if you want to test the waters first, and a 14 day refund either way, no questions asked. For today, the code PHLAUNCH takes 20% off the lifetime license.
This is my first solo dev launch and I am a little nervous posting it here. I will be around all day. Ask me anything, especially the hard questions, and if something about it feels wrong to you, tell me. I can still change course. 🙏
About Focus Buddy by SidePerch on Product Hunt
“The focus timer that lives at the edge of your Mac”
Focus Buddy by SidePerch was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #118 on the daily leaderboard. Focus Buddy is a tiny native macOS widget that docks to any screen edge. One click expands it into a full focus card: Pomodoro or Flowmodoro timer, ambient rain, ocean and wind synthesized live on your Mac so they never loop, Spotify and Apple Music control, streaks, and insights. Finish a session and drop your stats on a photo, like posting a run. Local first: no account, no cloud, no telemetry. $15 once or $3 monthly, up to 3 Macs, 14 day refunds. No Electron. Just a few MB of Swift.
On the analytics side, Focus Buddy by SidePerch competes within Productivity, Time Tracking and Apple — topics that collectively have 680.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Focus Buddy by SidePerch performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Focus Buddy by SidePerch?
Focus Buddy by SidePerch was hunted by Dustynus Marvell Chang. 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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Dustynus Marvell Chang
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I want to be honest about why this app exists. I kept failing at focusing. Not because I lacked discipline apps, I had all of them, but because my timer always lived somewhere I could not see it. A tab behind thirty other tabs, a window behind my notes. Out of sight, and ten minutes later I was on my phone wondering where the session went.
So I built the thing I quietly wished existed: a small timer that sits at the edge of the screen, always in the corner of my eye, never in my way. Click it and it opens into a full focus card. Click away and it folds back into its corner. That tiny change, just making the timer visible, fixed more of my focus than any productivity system I ever tried.
Then I kept going, because focus is not only about a countdown. I gave it rain, ocean and wind that are generated live on your Mac, so the sound never loops and never needs internet. I gave it a streak, because I needed a reason to come back tomorrow. I gave it stats that eventually told me something embarrassing but useful: my brain is basically done after 9pm, and no amount of coffee changes that. And I gave it a share card, so when you finish a deep session you can put your hours on a photo and post it like a run. It sounds cheesy. It is also the thing that made the habit stick for me.
One promise I refused to compromise on: your data is nobody's business. There is no account, no cloud, no tracking. Everything stays on your Mac, and the app touches the internet exactly once, to activate your license.
It costs $15 once and it is yours forever, on up to 3 Macs, with every future update. There is a $3 monthly option if you want to test the waters first, and a 14 day refund either way, no questions asked. For today, the code PHLAUNCH takes 20% off the lifetime license.
This is my first solo dev launch and I am a little nervous posting it here. I will be around all day. Ask me anything, especially the hard questions, and if something about it feels wrong to you, tell me. I can still change course. 🙏