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I built Pausee after realizing I was spending 8–9 hours a day on my phone, mostly opening Instagram, YouTube and other distracting apps without even thinking about it. Instead of completely blocking them, Pausee adds a short pause before you open them, giving you a moment to decide if you actually want to continue. It also has scroll stopping, usage windows and mindfulness prompts. My screen time dropped to around 3–4 hours. Now I'm making it free for anyone who wants to try it.
I built this because I was honestly getting tired of myself.
I'd sit down to work, open Instagram for 5 minutes and somehow lose an hour. My screen time reached 8–9 hours a day.
I'm a developer, so instead of relying on willpower, I decided to build something that would interrupt that automatic behavior.
That's how Pausee started.
It's still early and there's a lot I want to improve, so I'd genuinely love to hear what you think.
Especially if you've tried other screen-time apps before, what made you keep using them or uninstall them?
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About Pausee on Product Hunt
“A small pause before you doomscroll”
Pausee was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #130 on the daily leaderboard. I built Pausee after realizing I was spending 8–9 hours a day on my phone, mostly opening Instagram, YouTube and other distracting apps without even thinking about it. Instead of completely blocking them, Pausee adds a short pause before you open them, giving you a moment to decide if you actually want to continue. It also has scroll stopping, usage windows and mindfulness prompts. My screen time dropped to around 3–4 hours. Now I'm making it free for anyone who wants to try it.
Pausee was featured in Android (57.5k followers), Health & Fitness (83.2k followers) and Productivity (660.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 236.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Pausee?
Pausee was hunted by Dichan Shrestha. 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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