I built a Chrome extension that blocks my distractions until I hit my daily X posting goal
So I’ve been trying to post more consistently on X, but my problem was not “I don’t know what to post.”
My problem was that I would open YouTube, Instagram, etc. first, lose momentum and then try to cram all my posts at night which obviously doesn't work.
So I built a Chrome extension for myself.
The idea is simple:
- You set a daily posting goal, like 30 posts/day.
- You set your wake/sleep window.
- The extension divides the goal across your active hours.
- If you fall behind, it reminds you.
- If you still don’t catch up, it blocks distracting websites in Chrome until you post.
- It also has a “first post unlock” mode, so you can’t start scrolling before making at least one post.
Example: if your goal is 30 posts and you’re awake for around 15 hours, it expects roughly 2 posts/hour instead of letting everything pile up.
I built it because I wanted something stricter than a habit tracker but lighter than a full productivity system. I don’t want motivation. I want my browser to make the lazy choice harder.
Right now it’s an MVP Chrome extension. It blocks websites in Chrome, not native desktop/mobile apps. X post tracking is partly manual because I didn’t want to rely on the paid X API yet, but there’s also a small overlay on X to count posts faster.
I’m curious -
Would you guys use something like this for posting, writing, shipping, or content creation?
And what would make it actually useful instead of annoying?