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If one needs to use an app to reduce the time spent on apps, then the person already has no self control. Since your app promotes such ideology of people who are slaves to technology,this app actually promotes such a repressive machine dependent society. Technology is supposed to serve society not rule or govern its habits. People should be taught to use technology not be a slave to it by using non-technology means.…
If one needs to use an app to reduce the time spent on apps, then the person already has no self control. Since your app promotes such ideology of people who are slaves to technology,this app actually promotes such a repressive machine dependent society. Technology is supposed to serve society not rule or govern its habits. People should be taught to use technology not be a slave to it by using non-technology means.…
Ok, but please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
If one needs to use an app to reduce the time spent on apps, then the person already has no self control. Since your app promotes such ideology of people who are slaves to technology,this app actually promotes such a repressive machine dependent society. Technology is supposed to serve society not rule or govern its habits. People should be taught to use technology not be a slave to it by using non-technology means.…
though I do like this app. this app, along with onesec really illustrate what's annoying about modern tech development. why pay monthly for something whose feature set rarely changes? something like this ideally should be $10 once.
We actually do expect our product to change quite a bit over time, basically because of the nature of the arena we're playing in. platforms will change over time, as will they apps we're helping moderate, and we'll always be trying to integrate as seamlessly as possible to play defense for our users. As such, we think a recurring subscription is the best way to align our interests with our users and make sure we're b…
I'm a Clearspace user who found this app via a post on HN, and I can't thank the creators enough. I have not fully extracted myself from use of Reddit yet, but it's remarkable how effective this app was at breaking my cycle of opening, scrolling, closing, and reopening less than an hour later. I've tried other screentime management apps, but it seems like something about Clearspace's approach with the centering exerc…
thanks so much for this. desktop solution coming as fast as we can build it!
What I'm really hoping is, one day you can filter People Magazine out of the grocery store checkout line ;)
- Opal: $20/mo, $100/yr, $300–400/lifetime (4.7/5 stars with 6.1k ratings)
- one sec: $4/mo, $15/yr, $40/lifetime (4.9/5 stars with 6.2k ratings)
- ClearSpace: $7/mo, $45/yr, (n/a?)/lifetime (4.7/5 stars with 404 ratings)
In the thread you've addressed some current features differences already (progress / streaks tracking, and pulling one out of an app after a set time limit).
Are there specific things you want to do differently in the future than what those apps do today? [They appear to be going in two very different directions.]
[1]: https://www.opal.so/
[2]: https://one-sec.app/
I'm a Clearspace user who found this app via a post on HN, and I can't thank the creators enough. I have not fully extracted myself from use of Reddit yet, but it's remarkable how effective this app was at breaking my cycle of opening, scrolling, closing, and reopening less than an hour later. I've tried other screentime management apps, but it seems like something about Clearspace's approach with the centering exerc…
thanks so much for this. desktop solution coming as fast as we can build it!
Something about installing closed source browser extensions with broad permissions like "Read and change your data on many / all websites" has always bothered me.
Too many have been bought up and then later injected with malware / ads / etc but that's totally opaque to the end user...
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thanks so much for this. desktop solution coming as fast as we can build it!
Would you mind open sourcing the browser extensions? Something about installing closed source browser extensions with broad permissions like "Read and change your data on many / all websites" has always bothered me. Too many have been bought up and then later injected with malware / ads / etc but that's totally opaque to the end user...
[^1]: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit
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thanks so much for this. desktop solution coming as fast as we can build it!
Would you mind open sourcing the browser extensions? Something about installing closed source browser extensions with broad permissions like "Read and change your data on many / all websites" has always bothered me. Too many have been bought up and then later injected with malware / ads / etc but that's totally opaque to the end user...
I just installed it and tested the 5 toggles for a few minutes, and found most of them only seem to work on the homepage of the site? Is that expected?
I mostly use these sites not by going to the homepage first, so I think blocking only one door into a house is an invalid assumption for blocking the site.
Also Facebook blocking doesn't seem to be working at all.
I went to Settings->Focus->Do Not Disturb and added the Clearspace app to "Allow Notifications", but still see nothing.
Edit: ah, it's because iOS's own Screentime was blocking the Clearspace app, which was blocking the notification.