Name: Boss as a Service
Rating: 4.97 (24 reviews)

Heya Product Hunt! 👋 Dopanope is a Chrome extension that helps you stop wasting time on the internet. It works by decoupling the action of going to your favourite time-wasting website (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook?) from the neurological reward (the dopamine hit you get when you check social media), by putting a randomized wait time in between. Basically, it puts your impatience to good use. 👀 I originally built Dopanope for myself, because I was spending unconscionable amounts of time on Reddit and Twitter. The worst part is, I was not even enjoying it, or consciously taking a break. I was joylessly doom-scrolling, mostly, to avoid doing something else I should have been doing. 🤦‍♀️ Dopanope was really useful to me, so I thought of shipping it as a product! Here's how it works 🔎: 1. When you try to access a distracting site, it makes you wait for a random period of time. 2. Immediately, you start getting impatient. And no, you can't switch tabs -- if you do, Dopanope pauses the countdown till you return to the tab. 3. Most times, your impatience will win! If you still wait for the countdown and then access Twitter, then it's a conscious choice. How's Dopanope different from the other blocker extensions out there? 💁‍♀️ There are tons of blocker extensions, and if you're reading this, you've probably tried several! This is how Dopanope is different: ✅ It forces you to stare at the most boring screen in the world -- because if you switch tabs, the countdown is paused. ✅ It randomizes the time delay, taking advantage of the Endowed Progress effect. ✅ Doesn't completely block the site -- because every time an extension tried to do this, I'd just self-sabotage by taking it as a personal challenge and try to get around the extension's block. 🫣 So Dopanope combines several tiny psychological tricks, to make a simple but effective solution for my (and hopefully your!) browsing problem. Please try it and let me know what worked -- and what didn't! 🤓

Reviews of Boss as a Service

Gaëtan

•1 review

Amazing experience with BAAS. When you're a founder / CEO of a company, you basically have no accountability (except from your clients, the market & yourself of course) but it's not like having someone to coach you and holding you accountable on your business AND personal goals. This is exactly this problem that Boss as a Service is solving: it gives you the accountability & coaching you need to succeed, develop discipline & reach your goals. With their help I have been able to crush all my objectives, finishing a 75 hard challenge, growing my startup & more importantly develop a strong, self-disciplined character to be able to reach my ambitious Goals. Thanks to Roshni and the BaaS Team for inventing such a simple yet so powerful service for business owners. 🙏🏼

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3yr ago

Nuno Tavares

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BAAS was an absolute life-changer . I've been a procrastinator for as long as I can remember (tried all kinds of different techniques and apps to change my ways, with no success) and this service turned that around 180 degrees. There's something about accountability coming from other humans - something about us helping each other achieving goals, moving forward - something that I cannot quite explain, but that really worked for me. The human factor is definitely what makes BAAS stand out. Amazing idea - simple yet extremely effective implementation.

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3yr ago

Jesse

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I've been a BaaS user for over two and a half years. With BaaS, you get a specific person (a personal individual), who will follow up with you in the specific way that YOU ask them to. They will talk to you, ask questions, and adjust to what you say. If you're the kind of person, like me, that needs to talk things out loud, having that sounding board is a game changer. Because of BaaS, I completed several rooms in my house, am halfway through a degree, and have completed lots of work and family items. I love how customizable and adjustable BaaS is. I can ask my boss to follow up on my sleep, my family, my work, or even just to ask me how happy I feel. It's definitely one of THE most valuable things I pay for - and for the price, it's a steal.

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2yr ago

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Manasvini Krishna

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Srikanth Kannan

@manasvinik Been using this for a couple of weeks now, and I must say, this has made a big impact. My mindless browsing has definitely reduced by orders of magnitude.

Nataliia Golda

Great job!

@nataliia_golda Thanks Nataliia! :)

Camille Louédoc

I'll give it a try. I've been using "10-Seconds Focus" that has a similar feature set (you need to click & hold a button for 10-seconds before accessing a website). It's been effective but sometimes, it either over blocks me or 10 seconds is not enough/too predictable, so maybe Dopanope is better?

@clouedoc Dopanope's wait time is longer (30-50 secs) and also randomised. Plus the philosophy of the extension is that you don't do anything actively like hold a button, or click -- because these actions, which feel like you're making progress, are likely to make you more willing to wait out the countdown. That's the main difference! 😀 Do try and let me know how it works for you!

@manasvinik I see! I'll try it for a few days and leave a comment

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