[javierjavier]

Hello, another developer here. We thought it would be interesting to build something that didn’t depend on winning a technology war against distractions online. We’ll never be able to fully block sites (my fav example: the fb mobile apps are bundled with an ever-changing list of IPs), and we’re not sure we’d even want to, so instead we focus on the user and work to build a healthier relationship with the online world.[1]

It’s not going to work as quickly as blocking seems to, but we think it will be more effective over the long term. Hope folks like it!

(Personal anecdote: in building this I have completely changed my news consumption habits. I used to hit up the New Yorker/NYTimes/WaPo when boredom struck -- when I woke up, at lunch, in between tasks, etc. Working on this helped me realize that the return wasn’t worth the time investment, so now I set larger time chunks to read the physical New Yorker magazine and books. Much better!)

[1] Cal Newport calls this ‘controlled use’ -- http://calnewport.com/blog/2017/10/02/are-you-using-social-m...