You have too many tabs open. You'll never go back to most of them. day1tabs closes your tabs at midnight and shows you which ones you actually used — sorted into "Used" and "Didn't use." Reopen what matters. Let the rest go. → Never-close domains stay open (Gmail, Docs, Salesforce) → Pinned tabs and active tab always protected → Everything recoverable until next auto-close Zero data collection. Everything local. Free forever. Built by a solo dev with too many tabs and not enough discipline.
Hello Fellow Product Hunters! 👋
I'm Arafath, and I built day1tabs because I had 50+ tabs open
every single day and kept telling myself I'd "get back to them."
I never did.
So I built a Chrome extension that forces a clean slate at midnight.
After using it for 2 weeks, I discovered that about 80% of my tabs
were never revisited. Not once.
The part I didn't expect: it's not the closing that's valuable —
it's the morning summary. Seeing "Used 3 / Didn't use 27" changes
how you think about your browsing habits.
What makes day1tabs different from OneTab or Arc's auto-archive:
- It closes everything** (not just inactive tabs)
- It classifies by actual usage, not just time
- The daily summary shows you the truth about your tab habits
- Zero data collection — everything stays on your device
**except the things that you configure as "Never close"
I went through 3 complete redesigns based on user feedback in 8 days.
A university student forgot the extension existed and then said
"wow, I have less tabs today for once." That's the reaction I'm
building for.
Free forever. No catch. I just want 100K people to start every
day with a clean browser.
Would love your honest feedback — what would make you actually
keep auto-close enabled?
As a solo founder building a desktop app, I constantly find myself buried in dozens of research tabs. Day1Tabs looks like a breath of fresh air for clearing that mental clutter! I especially love the 'Day 1' concept. Do you have plans to add a search or tagging feature within the saved tabs for even faster access later? Great launch!
Man O Man! Love this extension. As an early beta user, this extension has simultaneously reduced my anxiety and improved my efficiency by tons in a few days.
Nice idea, the morning summary sounds like the most interesting part. If a tab gets closed but I suddenly need it later, is there an easy way to restore it from previous days?
After using for a couple of days this helped me start my days focused instead of scrolling through my millions of other tabs. Especially with exam season this was very helpful!
I'm a bit of an "a-type" personality, so my tab hygiene is pretty clean, but I can definitely see how this could be useful for a ton of folks I screenshare with and notice the spiderweb mess of tabs they have open. How do they even live like that?!
Curious if you have any plans for the next version of the extension?
This is awesome and I have like a lot of tabs and I have really clean UI later and Its perfectly archived. super.
Built by a solo dev with too many tabs and not enough discipline' might be the most honest product description I've ever read on Product Hunt. 😂
The midnight reset is genuinely clever - it's not blocking you, just creating a natural forcing function. Fellow Chrome extension builder here (Fillix - makes job hunting embarrassingly easy), and the 'everything local, zero data' approach is something more extensions should commit to upfront. Congrats on shipping!
This is so cool! :)
ATM I use TabsMagic, but it doesn't have this feature, so I have all those tabs open anyway. Painpoint was spotted really well here.
As a bit of a messy person when it comes to opened tabs, I find it interesting, however, some of them I keep open to use as reminders. that I will check in the upcoming hours or days. I think that we should be able to sort of manually edit or ask for specific pages not to be closed, for example when you started a draft but did not finish it(did not press on save), on a website that you do not use daily. Would I lose that "draft"?
Hey @aalabs congrats on the launch! This is a super useful extension 🚀 and I've already gone and added it to Chrome! Thank you for making it free, but honestly I would pay for something like this. Maybe not recurring haha but definitely as a one-time purchase.
One thing I would recommend is in the daily summary, is there a way to see how many times you visited a tab within a day? I could see on the video, you define what's popular by usage but would it be good to also see how many times a tab was visited or if it was re-visited a number of times each day?
