≻=PlayingFild uses on device machine learning to classify tabs by content, not URL. The same website can be productive or distracting based on the page. Classification happens entirely on your device. Raw page content, HTML and personal text don't leave your browser. Earn break time by focusing and spend it when you need it. Tabs reorder themselves based on what you actually use, and unused tabs close. Includes per window rules, focus timer modes, recap cards, and productivity analytics.
I built PlayingFild because every productivity extension I tried had the same problem they only understood websites, not what I was actually doing.
If I was watching a programming tutorial on YouTube, I'd get blocked. If I was procrastinating on Reddit, it looked exactly the same as researching a bug. Eventually I got frustrated enough to build something that understands page content instead of just URLs.
As a beginner developer with dyslexia (and probably ADHD), I realised punishment wasn't helping me focus. Blocking everything just made me uninstall the extensions. So PlayingFild takes a different approach: it rewards focus, earns you break time, automatically organises your tabs, and quietly cleans up the browser instead of constantly blocking everything.
I do wish it could "read my mind" sometimes, like if I want to use unproductive tabs for a break when I actually need one but stop me from being unproductive when I don't. I know that's a very ambitious, probably impossible goal and hard balancing act but that's the goal of PlayingFild.
I would love feedback, good or bad. Every feature in PlayingFild exists because I ran into the problem myself, and I'm still actively improving it. If something feels confusing, missing, or annoying, let me know.
the event-driven + per-site caching design makes sense, that's the right way to keep it cheap. one edge case - what about a tab that's a single-page app where the URL never changes but the content totally does, like a webmail inbox that goes from empty to a long work thread? does the cached classification just stick until you close the tab, or is there some heuristic for detecting that kind of drift
rewarding focus instead of punishing distraction is the right call, the uninstall-when-blocked pattern is very real. practical question though: you said classification runs continuously across every open tab, not just the active one. on a laptop with 20+ tabs open all day, does that show up as a noticeable battery or CPU hit, or is the on-device model light enough that it's a non-issue in practice
rewarding focus instead of just blocking is a much better fit for how people actually slip into procrastination, congrats on shipping it. one thing I'm trying to square - you mention a global model weighted by what other users have classified, but also that raw page content and personal text never leave the browser. what's actually feeding the global model then, is it just a productive/unproductive vote tied to the domain, or something more granular than that?
This looks like a useful productivity tool. The context-aware tab management is an interesting approach. How does it handle tabs from different workspaces or projects? Does it group by domain or by user-defined categories?
Congrats on the launch! I really like the approach of not just blocking entire pages. How does it handle multi-tasking? Does it only track whichever tab is active? I'll definitely give it a try!
About >=PlayingFild on Product Hunt
“Productivity Tool & Tab Manager that Understands Context”
>=PlayingFild launched on Product Hunt on July 26th, 2026 and earned 95 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. ≻=PlayingFild uses on device machine learning to classify tabs by content, not URL. The same website can be productive or distracting based on the page. Classification happens entirely on your device. Raw page content, HTML and personal text don't leave your browser. Earn break time by focusing and spend it when you need it. Tabs reorder themselves based on what you actually use, and unused tabs close. Includes per window rules, focus timer modes, recap cards, and productivity analytics.
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Hello,
I built PlayingFild because every productivity extension I tried had the same problem they only understood websites, not what I was actually doing.
If I was watching a programming tutorial on YouTube, I'd get blocked. If I was procrastinating on Reddit, it looked exactly the same as researching a bug. Eventually I got frustrated enough to build something that understands page content instead of just URLs.
As a beginner developer with dyslexia (and probably ADHD), I realised punishment wasn't helping me focus. Blocking everything just made me uninstall the extensions. So PlayingFild takes a different approach: it rewards focus, earns you break time, automatically organises your tabs, and quietly cleans up the browser instead of constantly blocking everything.
I do wish it could "read my mind" sometimes, like if I want to use unproductive tabs for a break when I actually need one but stop me from being unproductive when I don't. I know that's a very ambitious, probably impossible goal and hard balancing act but that's the goal of PlayingFild.
I would love feedback, good or bad. Every feature in PlayingFild exists because I ran into the problem myself, and I'm still actively improving it. If something feels confusing, missing, or annoying, let me know.
Thanks,
>=PlayingFild's dev