This month I started building a dumbphone so that I won't waste 5-6hrs of my day on scrolling reels, Porn addictions and gambling.
What it does: It uses the iOS Screen Time API to physically block everything but 6 essential apps. But the real deal is you lock your phone by choosing a timer, I have allowed only 6 applications for the world to turn their phone dumb. Phone, messages, camera, Maps, Spotify/apple music, and your AI apps.
I built this app first for myself as I loved music and i needed AI to talk about psychology, tech and help I kept these 2 options.
Psychology Behind this approach: How many times in our life we just think of deleting our apps, tell our friends that I will be off grid for a while just to end up using the pixels that drain our energy and distract us. Using this app you actually don't need to quit anything, but at the same time allowing you to use the time that you told yourself that you will work make it productive by removing the biggest distractions in your life.
Feel like gambling, just put your phone in a lock. Cant control your impulses and feel like watching porn lock your phone out until the cravings pass away. Want to work on a business idea just for 20 minutes, lock the phone for 20 minutes. Its the flexibility and easy to start, cross the barriers that stop you.
Need your help in 2 things: Validate my 2 ideas - I thought of creating Strava like sharable cards, so that y'all can share your focus/streaks with your friends and social media. I know it kinda goes against the idea of " we thought this idea will make us quit social media" but I never intended for people to quit social media, but rather manage this habit and distraction. So tell me what do you think of this will you share or sharing/creating such cards help. It does give u a monthly heat map like Github.
Secondly, my monetization model currently I have 4 packages, let me know if y'all would pay for anything like this:
The Daily Ration (Free): Everyone gets 25 minutes of "Locked In" time for free every day. It’s the "demo."
The Hour Vault (Micro-Passes): Once your 25 mins are up, you buy time in your "Vault."
$0.99 for a 3-hour "Deep Session" pass.
$2.99 for a 12-hour "All-Nighter" pass.
$5.99 for a week "Weekly grind" Pass.
$7.99 for infinite focus.
Additional explanation on how it works: 3hour pass gives 3 hour worth of credits, basically u can lock your phone for not more than 3 hours, but you can break down that 3 hours into 25min, or any number within it that you can think of, flexibility is key. You can lock your phone even for 1 min, So you will be left with 2hr 59min as your balance.
So when u buy weekly pass you can completely lock your phone in a dumbphone mode for a week or lock the phone for lets say 6hrs, each day for a week.
Here, Time acts as money because time is money. Just like movie In Time by Justin Timberlake, the vault will run out of time as you use locks for the time you need.
Well that was pretty long. Thanks for reading.
Waitlist at lockinapp.info
coming soon on IOS app store.