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

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I'm genuinely amazed that this question exists, but then I grew up with radio, then CDs, then MP3 players.

It is not physically possible to listen to music without paying $100/mo to Verizon or AT&T and $12/mo to Spotify.

Haha, ya, this is along the lines of “You can’t send HTML over HTTP without JSON.”

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

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Installed to try it out. I really like the art :) When you're editing a prompt, the back button takes you back to the nudge screen instead of the prompts popup, which feels like a bug.

Thanks for the try.

> When you're editing a prompt, the back button takes you back to the nudge screen instead of the prompts popup, which feels like a bug.

Yeah, it's on the list of things to fix. Now to exit the prompt popup properly you have to click either on cross or out of the popup area.

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Great! Apps like these are sorely needed. My feedback would be, apart from what others are saying about sub vs one-time purchase, to look at what Leechblock firefox extension is doing. The key point is to make it harder (but not impossible) for me to use the phone. A "Do you need this?" is a great start, but since I can easily sneak by, I will soon do that. Even if I click "1 minute" to get a reminder, that should no…

I think you’ve nailed some really key points about breaking the "quick loop" of mindless phone use

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Genuine question, I also like to use my smartphone less, but what about when you are in the lavatory? I have a habit of using my smartphone else I cannot go. Has anyone been able to solve that?

Do as I say, not as I do....

Don't take it? It's bad to dit on the toilet longer than 10 minutes.

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I just deleted an app a month until I was happy. My phone got so boring after a few months of this I started forgetting it when leaving home. Ended up using it so little on the go, wifi was enough and canceled my cell phone plan. Been four years since I had cell service or regularly carried any internet capable devices and I have never been happier. My anxiety has plummeted and my attention span and productivity have…

This is what I want to do, but as a husband, father, homeowner, etc, I find it is not in my best interest to be unreachable by phone. So I think about carrying a flip phone for my telephone, an e-reader for entertainment, and a smartphone in airplane mode for (mainly) maps, photos, music, notes. But then I'd be carrying three devices, which seems worse in its own way. Probably worth the change ultimately?

It drives me NUTS that nobody makes a decent e-ink device with a GPS app.

It seems like it'd be ideal for the backcountry use-case. Super long battery life because you could just wake up the GPS every few hours and get a new fix, reframe the map, then go back to sleep and use the latent image like a topo map.

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

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On iOS it's simply impossible to implement. There is no way you can display an app over other apps after unlocking. I tried to implement something similar, like a widget, but that's a completely different app. Unfortunately, such an app is possible only on Android.

After unlock is probably impossible. But open app over app is possible with one sec and shortcuts.

Yeah, but then it's a completely different app.

On Android, you can even combine Intenty and one-sec.

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I just deleted an app a month until I was happy. My phone got so boring after a few months of this I started forgetting it when leaving home. Ended up using it so little on the go, wifi was enough and canceled my cell phone plan. Been four years since I had cell service or regularly carried any internet capable devices and I have never been happier. My anxiety has plummeted and my attention span and productivity have…

Is this the new "we don't have a TV in this house?"

I think so. Also half of the people don't have children and/or have a lot of free time. I am not even talking about responding to emails/family chat.

How do they do 2-factor auth to Heroku/Gitlab/whatever? Maps in a foreign country where you can't even read the letters? On way to job interview when the interviewer has an emergency and needs to postpone? Good friend is in the town and calls you to hang out? Translation when a tourist comes to ask where something is?

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