@AmblingLife · X

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hackitup7 · HN

TLDR built a Chrome site blocker that lets you into distracting sites only after you do some math or simple coding (JS only right now). Direct link to extension (the site just gives you more context): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sphinx-earn-your-di... Philosophically it's a speed bump rather than a hard gate, because you'll eventually tear a gate down but you'll leave a speed bump. I've always eventually removed site blockers, or just had them become a nuisance that I reflexively dismiss before getting to distracting sites. Site blockers don't really reduce the "start navigating to a distracting site" muscle memory, and they eventually just become annoying. Dopamine is a hell of a drug. At the same time, I've been getting frustrated that my intermediate/advanced math skills have atrophied, and becoming more senior in my career (plus AI...) has caused my coding skills to atrophy even further. Realistically I'm not going to force myself to do math or coding exercises aft

@freyedev · X

Just launched! Next!!

alexmirelbecheanu

I’m a psychologist, not a developer. Over the past few months, I used Google AI Studio to build Psycurate.com Why? The digital mental health space has become exhausting—too many great tools are buried under aggressive monetization, mandatory tracking, and corporate bloat. This website wants to be an accessible alternative. What Psycurate is about: * Privacy First: A space specifically for tools that respect the person using them. Tools that do not harvest data. * A directory where anyone can discover and use these applications completely free, with no cookies and no corporate agendas and no friction * A platform to showcase tools made by ethical or indie developers that have something to offer to the mental health digital space. I just finished building the platform, so this is very much a fresh proof-of-concept. The site currently features three apps: two are simple tools I built myself, and one is from an independent creator who decided to submit their work on the platform. I w

davmar · HN

Scout is the best tool for finding activities for your child. I built this to solve my personal pain point. Currently the best solutions are wordpress blogs where people manually aggregate this information. But human-run blogs can't possibly find every event, they don't know what my child's interests are or what's near my home, so my wife & I would spend hours just learning what we can do with our child. Scout is totally different. Our Agents intelligently crawl the web and find everything in a specific geographic region. We're staring with Seattle, where I live. Scout event has an "inclusivity" filter which lets you find events that are sensory friendly, ASL/assistive listening/captioning, LGBTQ+ & trans affirming, wheelchair accessible, etc. My favorite feature is the daily email with a curated list of events for you. This week I've gone to 2 events based on those emails alone. Please take a look and give me your feedback! demo: https://youtu.be/6wEVtp7-wV4 The link above is

@fujidevv02 · X

the world's first context-aware, local AI browser pet companion!

@WackyCrocoGator · X

This one doesn’t require any signup or payment. Just load and multiple device by opening the site on them and connect them for an easy way to drop text and file to each other.

@EICWOGUP · X

Hey James, I am building that helps parents focus on their kids long term goals. Parents don’t have to be fluent on any skills to teach kids. All they have to do is choose the goal like chess, swimming, trachtenberg math, yoga etc and you get weekly list.

@13_narcissus · X

I am on my road to 1K followers, you are near so, let's connect!

davitb · HN

I'm a father of two, 7 and 12. They are obsessed with Roblox, especially Rivals. Like a lot of parents, we did not love it. We tried the usual things: block it, limit it, set timers." It became a daily battle, a lose-lose situation. So I flipped the problem. Instead of fighting what they loved, I decided to lean into it, but with a twist. Why just play an FPS when you could build one together? My kids became the PMs. Claude and I became their engineer. I was shocked by how fast we moved. We picked a name, Cooked and started building. Get in. Lock in. Get cooked! In the first 3 hours, we had an actual FPS we could play together in the browser. Next day I invited my friend's two kids over. Suddenly, I had four PMs. We had 3 laptops, 1 iPad and 1 iPhone. So in 30mins we added mobile support and could play all 5 together. The kids would ask for features: "Can we have a rocket launcher that knocks people off the map?" "The knife should stab faster when you hold it." I know al

@tentaco_cc · X

Hey! I built 🐙 It’s a privacy-first web space packed with over 450+ free micro-tools for tech, design, marketing, and PDFs. The best part? Everything runs 100% locally in your browser. No registration, no ads. Let's connect! 🛠️