App not recommended for Canadians. Unless someone makes a 'touch snow' plugin.
Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
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#172I was thinking about this recently and was trying to determine if I could take advantage of some kind of accessibility settings or otherwise to contextually/periodically disable the gestures that doom scrolling depends on entirely, on fly.
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#173You can probably expand your user base to Canadians by also adding a "touching snow" feature.
A white wall would qualify, so maybe you'd have to pee a letter into the snow to unlock.
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#175I would love an app with a configurable "unlock" task. Ex:
- Do a quick mindfulness/breathing exercise.
- Answer a quick quiz question related to something you're learning.
- Remind you of pending to-dos
Anyone know of an app like this?
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#176Very cool concept! I wanted to make a similar thing a few years ago, but for a slightly different purpose: force myself to walk more. I built an iOS app called Geostreaks [1] with a simple mechanic: pick an outdoor location (for example, a nearby park) and “check in” there every day. I couldn’t justify the yearly developer fee though, so the app has been removed from the App Store a few years later :( 1. https://appa…
Can you please open-source it?
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#177App not recommended for Canadians. Unless someone makes a 'touch snow' plugin.
Same for people who live in the Southwest US, unless someone makes a 'touch dirt' or 'touch cactus' plugin.
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#178I would love an app with a configurable "unlock" task. Ex: - Do a quick mindfulness/breathing exercise. - Answer a quick quiz question related to something you're learning. - Remind you of pending to-dos Anyone know of an app like this?
> - Do a quick mindfulness/breathing exercise.
Clearspace does exactly this:
https://www.getclearspace.com/#how-it-works
I've been using it for a month or two, with good results. Good luck!
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#179What I would love is social unlock, where your friends have to approve or deny your requests
I didn't realize there was a screen time api! I was waiting on Apple to do it, now I'll have to do it and wait for Apple to commit an antitrust violation and do it after it gains traction!
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whimsical doesn’t make money and we are a society of sellouts.
We are a social species living in a world where everything is commodified, and to survive means trying to find a way to exist in that space. It creates a mindset where even a simple hobby needs to somehow create profit, because everything around us requires we have and/or create money over all of the less tangible things that actually make humans happy. Some people have the luxury of being able to step around that mi…
Well said. I hear my arty/crafty friends get recommended to sell their "works". Thinking of art as an investment is a scourge.
Unfortunately money is useful, even if the game of chasing it is stupid and can be doomingly addictive. Looking after it for retirement is hell and trains one to be tight or a gambler.
The worst part is that we all know other things are more important than money: most people seem to choose jobs for their invisible benefits rather than financial outcomes. Our world runs because of our internal goals rather than money. The teacher that wants to help their students. The taxi driver that just likes to meet people. The engineer that strives for perfection. Does Matt Levine write for money?
The social incentives are whacko, and the government incentives are often insane. I have some admiration for those that find a way to get the benefits of society at the lowest time costs to themselves.
We fear we live in a purely capitalist world - yet the invisible incentives (economic surplus) are what makes everything work. The danger of seeing everyone else as a money grubber, while knowing that we ourselves are driven by better motivations.