Alexandria

What it does

Screen blocker apps are one of the hottest niches right now, people are waking up to their social media addiction and looking to replace fake dopamine with something real. Alexandria puts a unique twist on it: your apps lock every night at midnight. The only way to unlock them is to read your daily insight, a short, fascinating fact you've probably never heard before. You're unlocking your phone every day anyway. You might as well learn something new.

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  Edlock2019 · ▲72

  Hijack your most addictive apps to help you learn

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  TomosuMar 2026 · tomosu.app · ▲83

  Lock your apps by default to improve your digital wellbeing

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  Block Apps & Focus Timer: Lock My Apps2024 · apps.apple.com · ▲24

  Block apps and set focus timers to help iPhone addiction.

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  1Block2019 · play.google.com · ▲64

  Highly customizable app blocking and app timer for Android

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  LockedIn: Screen Time Control2025 · apps.apple.com · ▲27

  Screen time management made fun.

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  Unlockr - Earn Screen TimeAug 2026 · apps.apple.com · ▲3

  Block distracting apps. Earn access with movement.

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  Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi▲319

  Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.

  Work · 25d ago · loficities.com

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  Smooth Recorder▲257

  Mac screen recordings that look edited when you hit stop

  Work · 19d ago · smoothrecorder.com

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  Figma Specs▲223

  A container for your context that lives on the Figma canvas

  Work · 3d ago · figma.com

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  The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read▲190

  Work · 13d ago · readrare.com

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  Brila▲1,364

  One-page websites from real Google Maps reviews

  AI · Apr 2026 · brila.ai

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  A game where you build a GPU▲964

  Thought the resources for GPU arch were lacking, so here we are

  Life & fun · Apr 2026 · jaso1024.com

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  I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work▲915

  Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.

  AI · Apr 2026 · github.com

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  Fathom 3.0▲800

  AI meeting notes: now bot-free, in ChatGPT & Claude + more

  AI · Apr 2026 · fathom.ai

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  Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)▲786

  I made a laptop stand out of solid concrete, in the style of brutalist architecture, with themes of urbex and urban decay

  Life & fun · Apr 2026 · sam-burns.com

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  I built a frontpage for personal blogs▲783

  With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

  AI · Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app