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Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

#13

Great app! Love the design and thoughts behind it. Few comments: - isn't it possible to select multiple intentions? I've tried but when I turn on one, another one turns off. - for apps like these I'm really missing a more expensive lifetime subscription. I'm okay with paying some more upfront if I don't have to pay a periodical fee. Anyway, really nice work!

Thanks for giving it a try!

> - isn't it possible to select multiple intentions? I've tried but when I turn on one, another one turns off.

Here is the place where I made a UX mistake. I implemented nudges in a similar way as "modes" on iOS or routines on Samsung phones. You can enable one at a time. If you want to customise the content you see, you have to customise it inside nudge, not by enabling another one. I didn't make any UX tests before releasing this and I see a lot of confusion here. Apologise for that.

> for apps like these I'm really missing a more expensive lifetime subscription. I'm okay with paying some more upfront if I don't have to pay a periodical fee.

That's another miscalculation I made :) But I already have plans to replace the subscription with one-time purchase. Again sorry for the inconvenience.

Again, thanks for a try

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

#17
I haven't seen any of those apps (or built-in OS features like screen time on iOS) not become useless in a matter of days.

People that will use their phone for distraction (which I don't think there's actually anything wrong with) will take only a few days to get "notification fatigue" from those screens and automatically bypass them without even thinking about it.

I get that you can prevent bypassing the screen as you mentioned as an extra feature but people will just click the other button then.

There's not a single person (myself included) I have seen use screen time not automatically bypass the limitation instantly as it pops up.

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Dang, I think you just solved alcohol and nicotine addiction. Can you also do something against gambling? Would be cool.

Nobody can help the weak minded. However, they need to learn that the rest of us is no longer willing to reat them like grown up adults.
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