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I added reddit.com to uBlock Origin's filters list. I can still visit it, but there's now a screen asking me if I'm sure I want to go there. It's stopped me a few times, and it's breaking that muscle memory of "pick up phone & check reddit/etc"
great concept! out of curiosity - what tool did you use to create the main UI app animation/video on the website?
Is there an Android version coming soon? Also it would be better if you kept Instagram uninstalled... I see it installing on the screenshot!
Soon...ish Android equivalent is hard but it is in the back of my mind!
Nice idea. I feel like we don't see as many fun/whimsical apps these days as we did 10-15 years ago.
Whimsical doesn’t make money and we are a society of sellouts.
I recently added all of my most distracting apps to the Hidden section on iPhone. It requires a FaceID check to even see the apps, and blocks all notifications from them. It has helped me cut down on the scroll-time significantly.
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From what I’ve seen, Instagram is better at motivating young people to go outside and do things than video games were in the 90s or even today. With Instagram they see their friends doing things and it’s a reminder that going outside and/or spending time with friends is fun. There’s a lot of pearl clutching about people getting jealous about other people’s vacation pictures, but on the whole the active Instagram user…
Is this still true though? My gut feeling is that most Instagram users are now passive, meaning they doomscroll and never post while lying in bed in their parents basement while their 20s sail by. Not so much a stereotype as a reflection of the real people I know. I think we used to see much more content from friends, I think the feed is now mostly content creators/ads/tiktokified, no?
That's just reflective of how the world has always worked. Most people are passive.
The point being made, I think, is that Instagram is a greater source of motivation to interact with the outside world than Reddit/Gaming is.
It sounds plausible enough to me but who knows?
I like the idea but it will be hard to build a moat -- if that's something you care about. How about making it more general? "touch grass", "feel sand between your fingers", "hug a tree" ...
I'm not quite sure what you mean by build a moat, could you explain further?
I think (hope) that 20wenty was being cheeky and playing along the all-too-common vibe that every project presented on HN needs to become financially successful or else it's a waste of time.