I made an app that tries to help people spend less time on distracting sites

(I cleared this post with the mods)

Hi everyone, I wanted to share an app my friends and I are building -- Intent -- that aims to help people spend less time on distracting sites.

There are a bunch of related products -- productivity apps like Rescuetime and blockers like Freedom and StayFocusd -- but none of them spoke to me. I felt the quantitative apps had too much data and not enough direction (how do I act on my productivity score?). The blockers were too authoritarian (I’m an adult, just let me go to twitter already).

We wanted something simple that helps folks 1) identify where they spend time, 2) decide where to make changes, and 3) apply small changes that build better habits. We’re not trying to change the internet, we’re trying to change the user! We want to help people stop surfing mindlessly and start browsing with intent (hence the product name, and the specific post to r/nosurf).

If that sounds interesting to you we’d love for you to try it. It’s free, and there are no accounts or ads or anything. (How will we make money? Not sure, we want to make something useful first.)

https://browsewithintent.com/ One note: Intent is currently only for Chrome :|

I tried to keep this short, and am happy to answer any questions/comments. Thanks!