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Enter your daily screen time and your age. See how many years of waking life you'll lose to your phone, plus 60 specific things you'll miss: books, languages, marathons, novels, date nights, travel days and more. Free, no signup.
Hey Hunters! Richard here. I checked my daily screen time and it showed 10+ hours. *Apple Screen Time screenshot in the comments if anyone wants it.
But, what does 10 hours a day on the phone compute when accounting for an entire average lifespan? And what could I have done if I could just curb it down.
I built the Doomscroll Calculator to answer that very question.
I plugged the 10 hours into the calculator. Brace yourself: → 30.7 years of waking life will go to my phone. → 25,672 books I'll never read. → 1,198 marathons I'll never run. → 300 languages I'll never speak.
I love reading. I love running. The numbers are absurd because 10+ hrs/day IS absurd. That's the point of the calculator — make the absurd cost feel real.
The problem I built this for: "phones are bad" content makes you feel guilty for 10 minutes, then nothing changes. Guilt isn't a behavior-change tool. The hypothesis was — if you translate phone time into 60 specific things you'll miss (books, marathons, songs, dates, travel), it might land where abstract "wasted hours" doesn't.
25 of the 60 cite primary sources (FSI, CDC, WHO, Hal Higdon, BLS, AAP, NAPO, Iris Reading). The rest are labeled "reasoned estimate" — Honesty is the best policy 😇.
The bottom half of the page is the hope half: drag the green slider to see what you'd reclaim if you cut back. That's the actual takeaway. The doom is the hook, the hope is the point.
This is my second PH launch. First was Habit Doom in April (67th place, 21 upvotes — humbled). I'm back because the calculator is the strongest argument I can make for why screen time isn't abstract. It's 30.7 years of MY life.
Made with spite for doomscrolling.
Try it: habitdoom.com/doomscroll-calculator/
What's your number? I'm at 30.7 years. I'd love to know I'm not the only one this far gone.
the framing shift from guilt to specificity is what makes this work. guilt fades in 10 minutes but "612 date nights" doesn't. the slider at the bottom is smart too, ending on reclaim instead of doom is the right call.
Very cool, if a little terrifying. I'm curious how it determines doom scrolling vs passive screentime or productive scrolling?
I better stop wasting time doom scrolling and get serious in LIFE... for once.
About Doomscroll Calculator (by Habit Doom) on Product Hunt
“How many years will your phone steal from you?”
Doomscroll Calculator (by Habit Doom) was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 25 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. Enter your daily screen time and your age. See how many years of waking life you'll lose to your phone, plus 60 specific things you'll miss: books, languages, marathons, novels, date nights, travel days and more. Free, no signup.
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Richard Andrews
Hey Hunters! Richard here. I checked my daily screen time and it showed 10+ hours.
*Apple Screen Time screenshot in the comments if anyone wants it.
But, what does 10 hours a day on the phone compute when accounting for an entire average lifespan? And what could I have done if I could just curb it down.
I built the Doomscroll Calculator to answer that very question.
I plugged the 10 hours into the calculator. Brace yourself:
→ 30.7 years of waking life will go to my phone.
→ 25,672 books I'll never read.
→ 1,198 marathons I'll never run.
→ 300 languages I'll never speak.
I love reading. I love running. The numbers are absurd because 10+ hrs/day IS absurd. That's the point of the calculator — make the absurd cost feel real.
The problem I built this for: "phones are bad" content makes you feel guilty for 10 minutes, then nothing changes. Guilt isn't a behavior-change tool. The hypothesis was — if you translate phone time into 60 specific things you'll miss (books, marathons, songs, dates, travel), it might land where abstract "wasted hours" doesn't.
25 of the 60 cite primary sources (FSI, CDC, WHO, Hal Higdon, BLS, AAP, NAPO, Iris Reading). The rest are labeled "reasoned estimate" — Honesty is the best policy 😇.
The bottom half of the page is the hope half: drag the green slider to see what you'd reclaim if you cut back. That's the actual takeaway. The doom is the hook, the hope is the point.
This is my second PH launch. First was Habit Doom in April (67th place, 21 upvotes — humbled). I'm back because the calculator is the strongest argument I can make for why screen time isn't abstract. It's 30.7 years of MY life.
Made with spite for doomscrolling.
Try it: habitdoom.com/doomscroll-calculator/
What's your number? I'm at 30.7 years. I'd love to know I'm not the only one this far gone.