Instead

What it does

Divest from distraction, and invest in your self care. Instead is a card deck for people who want to scroll less. Pull a card whenever you get an urge to scroll on your platform of choice, and you'll be greeted with a prompt, affirmation, or activity.

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  Decks2024 · ▲182

  The ultimate tool for lifelong learners

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  Mingler2024 · ▲132

  Conversation decks for every topic

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  Shake Ups2020 · ▲67

  Get out of your head and into the game.

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  Instead App: Redirect Your AttentionSep 2025 · ▲7

  Redirect distractions into mindful choices that matter

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  LessMar 2026 · less-app.com

  Turn your scroll time into something worth it

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  Let's Tarot2022 · ▲60

  A guidance and inspiration to discover your destiny and life

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  Clipto MCP▲640

  Hey HN, We recently built Clipto. It’s a tool that lets you search over terabytes of video, audio, and images on your computer, without relying on the cloud. Motivation: we probably all had this similar experience, we know a moment exists in a video or audio, but finding it takes hours scrubbing the timeline. You can send all the media to process in the cloud, but it’s slow, expensive and raises privacy concerns. So we decided to build our own on-device media search engine. How it works (high level): 1. We ingest video, audio, image; normalize formats via ffmpeg; run content analysis to…

  Work · 23d ago · clipto.com

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  Computable GPU Index (CGI)▲426

  Hey we are Computable. We spent years building trading infrastructure at Jump Trading and Coinbase. From that point of view, compute looks like energy markets before 2000: everything trades through private bilateral leases, there’s no visible price, and nothing can be resold. The same H100 rents at a 2x spread depending on who’s asking, and once you sign a 24-month lease, it can never change hands. So we built a market for GPU nodes, sold by the calendar week. Here are three things you can do on it that you can’t do anywhere else: - Buy exactly the weeks you need. Three nodes for the last…

  Work · 14d ago · getcomputable.com

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  HyNote for Mac▲383

  Free local transcription that is 100% Private

  Work · 22d ago · hynote.ai

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  Scrimba Explain▲325

  Ask any question, get a video back instantly

  Work · 29d ago · scrimba.com

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  The New Calendly▲211

  Handle all of the work before, during, and after meetings

  Work · 22d ago · calendly.com

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  Redbean – Single-file distributable web server▲1,998

  Life & fun · 2021 · justine.lol

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  Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing▲1,422

  Dev tools · 2021 · github.com

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  Ray.so▲1,064

  Create beautiful images of your code

  Dev tools · 2021 · ray.so

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  June 1.0▲851

  Instant analytics reports built on top of Segment

  Growth · 2021 · june.so

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  Contra▲798

  A new kind of professional network

  Commerce · 2021 · contra.com

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  Deep Nostalgia™▲767

  Animate your family photos

  AI · 2021 · myheritage.com