I couldn't stop doomscrolling at 1am so I built an app about it. Looking for beta testers.
Every night same thing. I get in bed, tell myself I'm just gonna check the headlines real quick, and forty minutes later I'm reading about some trade policy I don't fully understand but I'm furious about anyway.
It's not even like I enjoy it. I just can't NOT know. Something happened today and my brain won't shut off until I feel like I've got the full picture. So I check one article, which mentions something else I didn't hear about, so I check that, and now there's a live thread, and someone in the comments said something unhinged so I need to read the replies, and suddenly it's 1:30am and I'm wide awake with my heart rate up reading about a senate hearing.
The worst part is I barely remember any of it the next morning. I just remember being tired.
I tried all the usual stuff. Phone in another room — lasted maybe a week but I'd literally get up and go get it because "what if something happened." The screen time limits — I just hit ignore every time. I even tried switching to a newspaper but who am I kidding.
Eventually I stopped blaming myself and started thinking about it differently. The problem isn't that I want news before bed. That's actually pretty reasonable. The problem is HOW I'm getting it — bright screen, algorithmic rage bait, infinite scroll, one article leading to six more tabs.
So I built an app called SnooNews. It pulls the day's top stories, summarizes them into short clear recaps, and delivers the whole thing as a sleepcast — calm audio with ambient sounds that taper off. You get the full "here's what happened today" rundown your brain is craving, but instead of doom spiraling through tabs at full brightness, you're listening with your eyes closed.
The whole thing is maybe 15-20 minutes. By the end you've got the closure your brain wants and you're actually winding down instead of ramping up.
I'm almost ready to launch and I'm looking for beta testers. Totally free, no credit card, nothing weird. I just need real feedback from people who think about their sleep. Bonus points if you're tracking with an oura or apple watch — I'd genuinely love to know if it changes your sleep onset time at all.
Drop a comment or DM me if you want to try it.