BePresent

BePresent

Duolingo for reducing screen time

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BePresent is not your typical screen time app. The app blocking tools you need are reinforced with psychology-based gamification, accountability, and awareness. Replace the dopamine hit you used to get from scrolling with dopamine for staying off your phone.
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iOS•Health & Fitness•Productivity
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Jack Winston
Maker
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Jack, the founder of BePresent: Duolingo for reducing screen time. I founded the company with my brother because as the first generation to grow up with smartphones, we struggle with phone addiction every day. And we truly believe this is the defining problem of our generation. We’ve tried everything to solve it, from time limits we just ignored, to app blockers we just disabled. Nothing worked. Sound familiar? We realized to solve this problem, we needed to take a different approach. Introducing BePresent, where instead of focusing on self-control or simple app blocking, we use the same psychological techniques that keep us addicted to instead enforce healthy tech use. Essentially, we turn limiting your screen time and blocking apps into a game you can play solo or with friends for accountability, replacing the dopamine hit you used to get from scrolling with dopamine for staying OFF your phone. We’d love for you to try it out and let us know what you think! #StopScrollingStartLiving -Jack & Charles Winston, Co-founders @ BePresent P.S. If you're looking to get involved in our mission, reach out at jack@bepresentapp.com! P.P.S. huge shoutout to @benln for hunting us!
Charles Winston
Maker
@benln @jack_winston1 Couldn't have said it better myself. So happy to be working on such an important problem with my brother!
Edouardo Vitale
@benln @jack_winston1 Amazing honestly !!!
Asad Dhamani
@jack_winston1 how do you compare yourself to opal
Ben Lang
Hunter
Reducing screen time is a noble cause - appreciate you building this.
Boris Markarian
@benln 100% support
Charles Winston
Maker
@benln Thanks for hunting us, Ben!
Jack Winston
Maker
@benln thanks for hunting us, Ben!
Shushant Lakhyani
I like the tagline that you've mentioned on Product Hunt. Also, since we have many such apps that help us reduce screentime, how is this one better?
Jack Winston
Maker
@shushant_lakhyani Hey Sushant! Thanks for the question. Every other app out there is designed to do one thing: make your phone as frustrating as possible so that you use it less. We are taking a different approach. Instead of making the consumer experience of your phone WORSE, we make it fun, motivating, delightful, and empowering to use your phone how you want to use it through psychology, not frustration. Additionally, unlike simple app blockers or time limits that you don't think about until the limit kicks in, our users report the reason BePresent works better for them is because it creates a constant awareness in the back of your mind whenever you're using your phone. You can't simply turn off our app like you can an app blocker since it's always working in the background.
Charles Winston
Maker
@shushant_lakhyani Every other product out there has 1 goal: make the phone as frustrating to use as possible. Their hypothesis is that by putting more friction between you and the phone, you’ll use it less. We’ve found that simply does not work against this true behavioral addiction. Folks will just end up ignoring and removing the screen time limits they set up. Our key insight is that we need to use the same psychological techniques that social media uses, but instead the reinforce the habit of staying off your phone. Fight fire with fire. So we give you tools to limit screen time (app blocking, hourly notifications, data and insights) but the magic happens when the gamification hacks BACK your psychology to empower you to keep up the habit. Hence “Duolingo for screen time.”