Star Focus: Productivity Timer
A focus timer that flies you between real stars
Star Focus: Productivity Timer launched on May 16, 2026 with 3 votes, #3,449 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
What it does
A Pomodoro timer reframed as interstellar travel. Every session is a real flight between two stars from the HYG catalogue at 10,000,000× the speed of light. Unlock 23,852 visited stars and 204 NASA exoplanets. Free for 5 and 25 minute flights.
An iOS pomodoro timer reframed as interstellar travel. Thousands of real stars from the HYG catalogue, confirmed NASA exoplanets overlaid on their actual host stars, an original score, and a logbook of every flight. Pick a route, start the starship, do deep work.
the first and only focus timer flying between real stars at 10,000,000× the speed of light. you sit still. the starship does the rest. i get distracted easily. the only thing that ever kept me at a desk was a video playing in the background. synthwave. ocean footage. a static star map on a second screen. a flight tracking app gave me the idea. you set a destination, the vehicle takes you there, you do not have to perform consistency. you are just on the flight. first version flew to mars. my wife asked why not real stars. that night i found the hyg catalogue and the nasa exoplanet archive. the rest of the app wrote itself. the in-flight music is original, composed with suno and remixed…from starfocus.space
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