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Show HN: An intentionally annoying app to break doomscrolling (speedbumpapp.com)
5 points by nullderef 10 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | discuss
Based on personal struggles, I built an app that shows annoying things on my phone when I doomscroll. This includes dancing cats, the screen time police, or rain.

Social media is great as long as you don't overuse it -- I learn and connect with friends thanks to it. But it's too easy to get hooked.

When you open addictive apps, SpeedBump gives you a few options: 2, 5, 15, 30 minutes. The more you want to use, the more you have to wait before opening. Once time's up, it starts to annoy you a lot. There's no way to extend the timer without breaking your streak; you'll have to take a 15 min break.

I used Compose Multiplatform. It's been very fun to develop and actually works for me.

Check it out here and let me know what you think: https://speedbumpapp.com/ :)






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