Loop Breaker
Turn doomscrolling into doing. Redirect focus instantly.
What it does
Most app blockers rely on willpower. Loop Breaker relies on habit psychology. Instead of just blocking apps (which creates frustration), Loop Breaker instantly redirects your focus from distracting apps to productive ones. Tap Instagram -> Get redirected to Kindle/Duolingo. ( Features: ⚡️ Instant App Redirects 📉 Wasted Time Widget (Floating counter showing lost minutes) 📈 Growth Time TrackingStop fighting your phone. Turn your bad habits into triggers for good ones
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Community, All the HN belong to you. This is an archive of hacker news that fits in your browser. When I made HN Made of Primes I realized I could probably do this offline sqlite/wasm thing with the whole GBs of archive. The whole dataset. So I tried it, and this is it. Have Hacker News on your device. Go to this repo (https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/HackerBook): you can download it. Big Query -> ETL -> npx serve docs - that's it. 20 years of HN arguments and beauty, can be yours forever. So they'll never die. Ever. It's the unkillable static archive of HN and it's…
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