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Show HN: SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon)

#1

Post by aam1r » Fri, Sep 30, 2011, 1:47 PM UTC

Hi HN,

We participated at the Mozilla WSOH (http://wsoh.eventbrite.com/) over the summer. It was a hackathon organized by Mozilla for interns all over Silicon Valley with an attendance of over 300+ interns from Facebook, Google, etc.

A friend and I made SurfControl and were the winners of the hackathon. We just pushed our product live and would love to get feedback!

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About SurfControl: "SurfControl is an add-on that shows you how you waste time online, and gives you tools to block or limit your time spent on different websites."

It is a Firefox add-on and can be downloaded at http://getsurfcontrol.com

Would you use this tool? Why/why not?

Re: Show HN: SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon)

#2

Post by md1515 » Fri, Sep 30, 2011, 2:42 PM UTC

Very cool add-on. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

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#3

Post by aam1r » Fri, Sep 30, 2011, 3:14 PM UTC

md1515 wrote: post #2

Very cool add-on. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

Thanks!

We're planning to add more features such as more charts/statistics, etc.

We will also be working on a Chrome add-on soon

Re: Show HN: SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon)

#4

Post by frenchieee » Fri, Sep 30, 2011, 3:47 PM UTC

Definitely super cool. I'd like to use it, (for Chrome please!), although it might be kind of terrifying. However, the more you know and all that...

Nicely done!

Edit: I love graphs! Seriously, visual representations are AWESOME.

Re: Show HN: SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon)

#5

Post by ryanlchan » Fri, Sep 30, 2011, 5:30 PM UTC

Looks similar to RescueTime (http://www.rescuetime.com/). What's the differentiation strategy?

Re: Show HN: SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon)

#6

Post by surajreddy » Sat, Oct 01, 2011, 2:57 AM UTC

ryanlchan wrote: post #5

Looks similar to RescueTime ( http://www.rescuetime.com/ ). What's the differentiation strategy?

This one's exclusively browser based.