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Life & fun · September 30, 2011

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 - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon) launched on September 30, 2011 with 21 votes, #70 of 306 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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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 access to those sites. The add-on was created during a Mozilla hackathon and won first place in the competition.

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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…

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