Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

play.google.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

191–200 of 399 posts

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

#191

Post by GrinningFool »

icetank wrote: post #86
PittleyDunkin wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Amazingly they've found a way to put "in-app purchases" though. I've been so happy slowly going through my phone and removing every single app on my phone that has either ads or in-app purchases. I don't miss a single one.

Hacker news has ads in the form of job positions. Do you also consider not using Hacker news anymore?

Your comment comes across as disingenuous.

I think by this point in time, most people who are taking an active effort to remove advertising from their lives are well aware that the concern with "ads" isn't primarily about the requirement to see ads - it's the privacy-consuming infrastructure behind them.

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

#192

Post by danpad »

ben_w wrote: post #179
danpad wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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? Translatio…

I get the general point, especially as IRL payment options are also increasingly assuming you have a smartphone, however maps and translation can also be done offline.

Hah, I hadn't even thought of banking/payments on the go. And true regarding the offline maps - a few sister comments mentioned leaving phone at home though.

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

#193

Post by catlikesshrimp »

wayoverthecloud wrote: post #163

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?

https://archive.ph/Lfh1u (CNN Health)

>>"Don’t sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn"

>> Leave your devices behind when you head to the bathroom (...) too much time spent on the toilet can cause possible health problems...

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

#194

Post by diimdeep »

This will turn into gamified form filling habit for no profit, what is the point ?

If you mechanically open phone at least do something useful in it

read a quote https://github.com/jameshnsears/QuoteUnquote

track a habit https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits

learn vim https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=develop.exampl...

c++ quirks https://github.com/vsklamm/CppQuiz

or else

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

#195

Post by space_oddity »

bcoughlan wrote: post #151

My approach for iPhone: - Set time limits on apps. - Block App Store. - Set a Screen Time pin, then forget it. Downside: if you need to install a new app, you need to do a iTunes backup, factory reset and restore the backup,. Also apps won't continue to update with this approach. Worth it though. I don't miss wasting 10-20 hours a week on brain rot apps.

Your method skips the subtlety and goes straight to a hard reset (literally)

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

#196

Post by thrtythreeforty »

yamrzou wrote: post #51

Love it. I wish there was a way to select multiple nudges. Is it possible to provide a lifetime subscription (instead of a monthly one) for premium features?

Subscription software cost can be modeled as a one-time fee: you calculate the net present value of all the payments.

For example, if you plan to use this app for 7 years (which is a reasonable expectation for a piece of software's lifetime) and it costs $2 a month, the net present value is somewhere around $138. That is, if you decide right now to use the app for 7 years, you are costing yourself $138 in today-dollars.

Which is rather a lot.

Of course the subscription does have the benefit that you can cut off your usage at any point, however the people asking for a perpetual irrevocable license are probably not the type who appreciate this capability.

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

#198

Post by myself248 »

dleink wrote: post #178
myself248 wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have a few use cases like this that would go towards replacing my phone. I'm on the lookout for a hackable/linux ereader.

I thought the reMarkable was that, but they hardware-disabled the Bluetooth radio in the wifi/bt chipset, and that really wrecked most of my use-cases.

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

#199

Post by tasn »

Love it! Reminds me of an app my brother and I built 10 years ago (time flies!). It's no longer on Google Play because of the maintenance burden of keeping it there, but here's a page with some screenshots: https://apkpure.com/spinach-motivation-lock-screen/com.tengu...

The idea was that if you're unlocking your screen, you should at least: (1) reinforce a mantra, or (2) force yourself to acknowledge you shouldn't be unlocking the phone.

Happy to share notes if you think that would be helpful.

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

#200

Post by vundercind »

p1necone wrote: post #28

I feel like we're far too obsessed with the "nobility" of stuff we do for fun. Watch YouTube shorts, scroll reddit, whatever. It's only "addictive" because it's fun, it's no more pointless than anything else you might do for fun. What are you really achieving by using this app? Do you have an unhealthy relationship with your phone, or are you just arbitrarily ranking it low on the "worthiness" of random shit you migh…

When I don't have my phone's distractions, I read books instead, or play music, or maybe do a few pushups.

Basically anything I in-fact do when my phone's not around, is better than the phone.

The only thing I do without the phone that's almost as low-value is video gaming (gee, more electronics...)

Post reply on HN