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congrats on the launch, Aditya!

thanks for sharing this. we have seen this problem first hand in our community.

thanks for your suggestion.

great to see that you're making progress. do checkout BlockerX to see if it might be helpful. all the best on your journey!

Atmana is a combination of 2 sanskrit words. there's nothing hindu about the name at all.

DSM-5 and ICD-11 are incredibly slow and it takes years and may be decades for them to be able to write to manual on something new like compulsive usage of digital products etc. it…

thanks, will check out these books.

great to know that you were actually able to quit social media and other heavy dopamine stimulants. this is inspiring! any specific resources/framework/books that helped you along …

sorry, I missed YC. Other than YC we haven't taken any external funds. I forgot to add this as technically the funds still haven't hit our account (still paperwork is pending).

thanks for sharing your experience. this is helpful!

we're completely bootstrapped and haven't taken any external funding yet. we aren't sponsored by any church etc. and have no religious affiliation. restriction might help all addic…

true, i haven't found any research paper on this too. But, I have seen this being shared in our community posts.

corrected this. i meant quitting porn has helped many such people overcome ED.

it's an intervention only because the user is looking for an intervention to overcome some behaviors that are negatively impacting their life.

yes, we do enforce google and bing safe search.

our block depends on the device, on android it's dns and showing an overlay on adult contnet. in ios it's through dns/vpn. regarding social media - that's next on our list! porn wa…

i second that.

support groups do help. it's proven to be effective with substance abuse addictions. we are helping people with a support group where users can share and help each other.

haha. didn't quite get what you want us to automate?

i appreciate your feedback. thanks! we do have a feature where users can talk to a coach and get their problems addressed.

thanks for sharing your experience. i guess it's different for different people. i have heard stories of young men who had erectile dysfunction. They could not get an erection with…

even with the app, only those who think our app will help them will install. it's not for everyone. we are firm believers in the free market economy and we are in no way saying tha…

i guess these are studies that indicate the harmful effects. but, the question was about whether quitting porn can make people happy. i guess that's not quantified. also, happiness…

thanks for your kind words and comment. As to how we prevent bypasses, we have a many little things that overall work really well. E.g. in iOS, if user disables a vpn profile, we h…

sure, thanks so much. will correct these rightaway!