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Pip - Stop Scrolling for Girls
Screen time blocker with feelings: she wilts when you scroll
Every blocker just says NO. You tap "ignore," feel nothing, scroll anyway. Pip makes the friction emotional: to open Instagram during a blocked window you hold a button for 1.8 seconds — and a creature wilts in real time. Her sprout droops, the colour drains. Let go early and she springs back. Real blocking via Apple's Screen Time API. You pick your own apps, and iOS only ever hands us opaque tokens — no account, no servers, nothing leaves your phone.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built Pip because every screen-time app I tried failed the same way: it says NO, you tap "ignore," and nothing happens. There's no moment where the choice costs you anything.
So I made the friction emotional instead of administrative.
When you reach for a blocked app, you don't get a wall — you get Pip. To bypass her you have to physically hold a button for 1.8 seconds, and while you hold it she wilts in real time: her sprout droops, her smile inverts, the whole screen desaturates, and the haptics fade out like a heartbeat. Let go early and she springs back with a bounce. Stay with her and she grows a petal.
On the "for girls" part, since it always comes up: that's the actual product thesis. This entire category — Opal, Brick, One Sec — is built on discipline and lockdown. Meanwhile the apps women genuinely pay for, like Finch and Flo, run on nurture and identity. Nobody had built a blocker in that register. (Anyone can use it.)
A few things under the hood:
• Real blocking through Apple's Screen Time API (FamilyControls) — not a fake timer
• iOS never tells us which apps you have. We only ever receive opaque tokens, so your app list is genuinely private
• No account, no servers, no analytics — nothing leaves your phone
• A home screen widget where she visibly wilts if you neglect her
• Six calming mini-games for when the scroll urge hits
It took 4 App Store rejections to get here. Happy to answer anything about building on the Screen Time APIs — they're painful and barely documented.
One thing I'd genuinely love your take on: is guilt a fair mechanic? Pip wilting *works* — it stopped me scrolling in testing — but I go back and forth on whether I built something kind or something manipulative. Where's the line?
About Pip - Stop Scrolling for Girls on Product Hunt
“Screen time blocker with feelings: she wilts when you scroll”
Pip - Stop Scrolling for Girls was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #123 on the daily leaderboard. Every blocker just says NO. You tap "ignore," feel nothing, scroll anyway. Pip makes the friction emotional: to open Instagram during a blocked window you hold a button for 1.8 seconds — and a creature wilts in real time. Her sprout droops, the colour drains. Let go early and she springs back. Real blocking via Apple's Screen Time API. You pick your own apps, and iOS only ever hands us opaque tokens — no account, no servers, nothing leaves your phone.
On the analytics side, Pip - Stop Scrolling for Girls competes within iOS, Artificial Intelligence and Tech — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Pip - Stop Scrolling for Girls performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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Pip - Stop Scrolling for Girls was hunted by Ömer Elmas. 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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