Launch HN: Motion (YC W20) – defense against online distractions and addictions

Post by bakul » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 4:26 PM UTC

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #6

monkin wrote: post #5

What about other browsers? Or other online distractions that aren't related to web browsers? For myself, extensions like this doesn't work at all, and for most addicted will not work as well. Would like to see extensions that doesn't block but make reading Facebook or other services extremely annoying. For example: I go to 9-5 job, and when I open Facebook all posts are from PornHub. Without a way to turn this off, s…

What I currently do is block on /etc/hosts. But like the OP says I don't actually want to perma block these sites, I do get real value out of them maybe 5 minutes a day. It just needs to not turn into 20 minutes. But you can use /etc/hosts perhaps if you really want a less easily turned off block.

Post by qiyuxuan96 » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 6:00 PM UTC

carterjbastian wrote: post #122

Fantastic work, Harry! This is a great product!

Post by rchaud » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 9:52 PM UTC

Exuma wrote: post #97

I always find apps like this bizarre. How about practicing willpower? The shortest answer between A (wanting it) and B (having it), is to just do it. And when you fail, non-judgmentally self-analyze and try again.

Post by qiyuxuan96 » Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 10:38 PM UTC

hoangbkit wrote: post #111

This is good stuff, just tried it! looks very promising.

Post by namuorg » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 3:23 AM UTC

sub7 wrote: post #42

I would just get annoyed with the prompts and uninstall. This approach doesn't, hasn't and won't work. What will work is unfortunately a little more complex to build i.e. you need to change functionality on these sites forcibly e.g. disable autoplay on YT automatically, fetch and create a newsfeed on FB to replace the shit stock one etc etc. You would then need to keep up with these assholes trying to block your exte…