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Sanctum
Pause before YouTube pulls you into another loop
Sanctum is a Chrome extension that helps you use YouTube intentionally instead of getting pulled into recommendations, autoplay, and Shorts. It adds gentle friction through pause prompts, viewing intentions, mindful breaks, and short reflections. The goal is not to block YouTube, but to help you notice when your original intention starts to drift. For this OpenAI Day release, GPT-5.6 helped refine the UX, copy, and interaction flows.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I built Sanctum because I often opened YouTube with a clear purpose, then lost that purpose to recommendations, autoplay, and Shorts.
Most tools treat distraction as something to block completely. I wanted to explore a gentler approach: adding a small pause at the right moment, so users can notice what they are about to do and choose again.
Sanctum includes viewing intentions, pause prompts, mindful breaks, and lightweight reflections. For this OpenAI Day release, I used GPT-5.6 to review the UX, clarify the language, and refine key interaction flows.
Sanctum is still evolving, and I would especially appreciate feedback on one question:
Does the added friction feel helpful, or does it interrupt the experience too much?
Thanks for taking a look. I’m happy to answer any questions!
About Sanctum on Product Hunt
“Pause before YouTube pulls you into another loop”
Sanctum was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #155 on the daily leaderboard. Sanctum is a Chrome extension that helps you use YouTube intentionally instead of getting pulled into recommendations, autoplay, and Shorts. It adds gentle friction through pause prompts, viewing intentions, mindful breaks, and short reflections. The goal is not to block YouTube, but to help you notice when your original intention starts to drift. For this OpenAI Day release, GPT-5.6 helped refine the UX, copy, and interaction flows.
On the analytics side, Sanctum competes within Chrome Extensions, Health & Fitness, Productivity and OpenAI Day — topics that collectively have 794k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Sanctum performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Sanctum ?
Sanctum was hunted by Wonseok Yang. 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 Sanctum including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Wonseok Yang