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24 alternatives to SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon)
Hi HN, We participated at the Mozilla WSOH (http://wsoh.eventbrite.com/) over the summer. It was a hackathon organized by Mozilla for interns all over Silicon Valley with an attendance of over 300+ interns from Facebook, Google, etc. A friend and I made SurfControl and were the winners of the hackathon. We just pushed our product live and would love to get feedback! ------------- About SurfControl: "SurfControl is an add-on that shows you how you waste time online, and gives you tools to block or limit your time spent on different websites." It is a Firefox add-on and can be downloaded at…
SurfControl is a Firefox add-on that tracks and limits time spent on websites to help users increase online productivity. It displays how much time users waste on different sites and provides tools to block or restrict… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon) launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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SurfKey▲212Reddit keyword alerts in your inbox, Slack and Discord
2022 · pesatoken.io · its alternatives →
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SurfPal▲144Track, analyze & limit your time spent on each website
2024 · surfpal.mutacore.com · its alternatives →
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Wave Browser▲185A web browser designed to simplify productivity
Dec 2025 · wavebrowser.co · its alternatives →
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SlashPage▲755Create websites in seconds to build your first 1K community
2023 · slashpage.com · its alternatives →
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SiteBlocker▲112Block distractions & stay focused | Chrome/Firefox extension
2025 · blockodile.app · its alternatives →
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Deta Surf▲340Hi HN! We got frustrated with the fragmented experience of exploring & creating across our file manager, the web and document apps. Lots of manual searching, opening windows & tabs, scrolling, and ultimately copying & pasting into a document editor. Surf is a desktop app meant for simultaneous research and thinking to minimize the grunt work. It’s made of two parts: 1) A multi-media library where you can save and organize files and webpages into collections called Notebooks. 2) A LLM-powered smart document which you can auto-generate using the context from any stored page, tab or entire…
2024 · deta.surf · its alternatives →
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Bring together people and content on the social web
Apr 2026 · surf.social · its alternatives →
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Download DelayWebpage for Firefox. Sets a small delay to certain websites to help you browse more mindfully.
2020 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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Transform your browser to improve focus & boost productivity
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Surf▲190Flipboard's new app for browsing the open social web
2024 · about.surf.social · its alternatives →
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SurfSafe▲70Supercharge your browser to detect faked media
2018 · getsurfsafe.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your browser into a productivity machine
2021 · deprocrastination.co · its alternatives →
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Firefox Focus▲168A free, fast and easy to use private browser.
2016 · blog.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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Started as a timer to track my freelance coding hours and stay focused. It’s local-only, zero-login, minimalist. Not monetizing it (yet), just seeing if others find it helpful. Thoughts welcome.
2025 · iamlockedin.com · its alternatives →
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Scary Productive▲131Behavioral training against procrastination on the browser
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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FocusFox▲93Get redirected to where you need to go.
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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I love to use Flipboard on my iPad, but I was bummed that the experience couldn't follow me to the phone or desktop, so I decided to do something about it... I built http://ridesurfboard.com over the winter holiday and just finished it up last night, so I wanted to share it with the HN community first. The app turns any website with an RSS feed into a more human, flippable format. It's all HTML5/CSS3/JS and works best in either desktop Safari or on an iOS device, although you can use Chrome if you enable the experimental GPU Accelerated Compositing flag (a how-to is on the Surfboard blog).…
2011 · ridesurfboard.com · its alternatives →
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Wavebox▲84All your favorite web apps in Wavebox instead of Chrome
2021 · wavebox.io · its alternatives →
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