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granny
strict task enforcer, anti digital distraction on MacOS
"I stopped trying to block websites. I started asking who's actually watching."
Every blocker I tried failed the same way: timers block everything blindly, hard lists block the useful along with the useless, and five minutes later I'm hunting for a bypass. None of them knew what I was actually doing.
Then I remembered my grandmother: behave, finish your homework, and you get to go out and play. That's the whole idea behind Granny.
What she does:
→ Morning intake at 7am: "what are you doing today?" Until the list is written, the notebook keeps coming back — you can't dodge it.
→ While work is open, entertainment dies: at the network layer for the usual suspects (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts), by content for everything else.
→ Context beats lists. A full YouTube video is negotiable; a Short is not. Every task declares its own allowed URLs, so writing a LinkedIn post is not "scrolling LinkedIn". Focus music plays on; a movie gets a raised eyebrow.
→ 11pm bedtime: she goes to sleep and tells you to do the same. Clean days bank a streak.
How the approach evolved: v1 was a hosts-file hammer — too blunt to trust, and I kept fighting it.
It became useful the day it could read the page: a self-hosted classifier handles the fast, cheap verdicts, and an LLM only steps in for the ambiguous cases. That's also why it's honest about its limits — the machine owner can always bypass it with sudo; Granny just makes it loud and annoying instead of pretending to be security.
Native Swift, macOS 14+, free and open source (AGPL), bring your own keys.
It's an early build, so it has bugs — feedback, issues and PRs are genuinely welcome.
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About granny on Product Hunt
“strict task enforcer, anti digital distraction on MacOS”
granny was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #117 on the daily leaderboard. Work first, play after. granny blocks the entertainment while your tasks are open, checks your claims, and unlocks the fun only when the list is done.
granny was featured in Productivity (663.5k followers), Task Management (84.3k followers), Open Source (69k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 231.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted granny?
granny was hunted by Binh Duc Nguyen. 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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