Locked-In Café

A calm speed bump for the sites you open on autopilot

Chrome Extensions

Productivity

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Rodruey, a builder building his way to freedom with love ♥ I built Locked-In Café because I kept losing hours I never actually *chose* to lose. New tab → I type "reddit" → and I'm gone, before my conscious brain even shows up. I automate things for a living, but my own focus was still running on autopilot. I'd tried a few approaches. They never stuck, because the second any of them got in my way, I'd just… drop it. The problem was never willpower in the moment, it's that there *was* no moment. The reflex fired before I could decide anything. Locked-In Café is a Chrome extension that catches that reflex. Type a distracting site and instead of the site, you get a calm screen: "you were heading to reddit.com — is this where you meant to go?" One key and you're back to work. What it does: ⏸️ Redirects the sites you choose to a quiet, near-black pause, not a wall ↩️ One tap (Esc) back to work, the easy path is always the default 🧠 To push through, you type *why* you want it, the friction is a conscious moment, not a timer. It opens for a few minutes, then quietly catches you again 📊 An honest Focus dashboard, real measured stats: how often you caught yourself, and the reasons you typed to yourself 🔒 100% local, no accounts, no servers, no tracking, your data never leaves your browser 🆓 Free Who it's for: people who are self-aware about the scroll and don't want to be policed, who want a nudge, not a nanny. Especially if hard blockers have failed you because you just disabled them (guilty 😅). Here's the thing I had to be ruthless about: this didn't start as a minimal tool. It started as a cozy little 3D café — warm lighting, a cat, something you'd actually want to hang out in. Then it hit me that that's exactly the trap: a focus tool you enjoy hanging out in is just the next distraction. So I threw all of it out — the café, the warmth, the 3D — and stripped it down to one job: catch the reflex, get you back to work. The restraint *is* the product. And it stays a speed bump, never a wall — there's always a way through, because you own your browser. No shame, no "access denied," no streaks to guilt you. This is a solo build, and one I use every day myself. If a distraction slips through, or you've got an idea that would make the pause land better, I'd love to hear it. Thanks for checking it out 🙏