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Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Teeny Breaks - Mindfulness tips to make the most of your breaks 🧠💖

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Teeny Breaks is a Chrome extension showing you one mindfulness tip based on science every time you open a new tab.

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Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
Hey everyone! As many makers this weekend, I took part in the 24hr Startup Challenge, and decided to build Teeny Breaks, a simple Chrome extension that allows you to incorporate mindfulness into your workflow. 🧠 Every time you open a new tab, Teeny Breaks shows you a mindfulness tip so you can make the most of your break. 🕒 Guaranteed no BS: each tip is science-based, with a link to the corresponding research paper should you want to learn more. And I will keep on adding new tips now and then! 📝 You can get it for Chrome here, and I'll port it to Brave as soon as it supports customizing new tabs. I hope you like it!
Danielle Johnson
@anthilemoon this so great I always need reminding to get up or take a break! I installed it before my 24hr stream and took some of the advice.. but I couldn't break too often! Huge congratulations on your launch 💛
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@dinkydani21 Thank you so much Danielle, and massive congrats on completing the challenge too! And yes I'm the same, didn't follow much of my advice for the 24hr stream, except for eating lots of bananas 🍌 😅
Sarah Jackson
@anthilemoon this is exactly what I need! Nice job building and launching this in 24 hours.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@sarah__jackson Thank you so much, Sarah!! 🙏
Rodrigo Chiong
Hi @anthilemoon ! Props for the Chrome extension, this seems way more useful than having the most visited sites (where I already go to waste some time) in my new tab. Just one issue: some tips have encoding errors and some symbols don't display as they should. The bananas one is one example where it shows "with about 25g of glucose in your blood stream – that's the amount".
Steph Smith
Amazing job! Such a simple, yet useful app that I definitely need to incorporate into my life. It's so easy to find yourself sitting for hours at your laptop completely stressed out, when sometimes all you need is a breather. So incredible that you launched this in well under 24h. 🚀
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@stephsmith Thank you so much, Steph! I loved building stuff while hanging out together on Twitch, it was so much fun! 🙌
Leandro
Very timely, as I have been looking for a decent Chrome extension. First of all congrats on shipping this so fast. Also, it's a solid product that is actually useful to me, on a daily basis. Nicely done!
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@leandro8209 Thank you so much, Leandro! I'm so glad you find it useful. I'll keep on adding new tips so you (and I) can keep on learning. 🧠 ✨
Clo

TeenyBreaks helps you relax and get a proper break, with scientifically-backed actionable and simple advice.

A lot of us spend our days working on screens, so this is an extremely useful and adequate product. You can use it either as a 'new tab' extension, or just as a classic website. It's easy to refresh and get new advice, and the whole UX is a breath of fresh air - or reminds you to get one!

Pros:

Simple, beautiful, and helps you relax

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None

Kerr
Congrats on the launch @anthilemoon! 🎉
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@kerrtrvs Thank you!! 🙏 ✨
devarsh ruparelia
Great job, Anne-Laure 👏
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@thedevarsh Thank you so much, Devarsh!! 🙏 ✨
William
Thanks for making this! Sometimes you focus so hard on shipping that you forget your brain has to rest!
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@wimgz Many thanks!! Yes, also you are actually more productive if you take breaks, so it's a win-win thing to do! 😊
Isabel Costa

This is a very simple product. It brings me peace of mind and reminds me to take care of myself every time I open a tab on Chrome.

I saw the first day of #24hrstartup streaming of this product and was wonderful seeing the thought Anne put into this.

Pros:

The pages are minimalists, so no distractions here; Tips are simple and easy to do; Has links to papers from where the tips came from.

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None

Pradip Khakhar
Congrats! Enjoyed watching parts of the stream.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@pradipcloud Thank you so much! And thanks for watching! 🙏 💙
Vivek
I love this product. Its very simple and helpful.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@vivekweb2013 Thank you very much! 🙏
Humphrey Yang
Just added this to my chrome extensions and I think it's gonna be awesome to help me be more mindful as I work throughout the day. Thank you Anne-Laure!!
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@humphrey_yang Thank you so much, Humphrey! I hope you like it! 😄
craze
I said this in the #24hrstartup chat, and I'll say it again: I love how all the info is backed by legitimate research papers! 👍
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@craze3 Thank you!! That was very important to me, so much BS in lots of mindfulness tools 🙅
Marie Denis

Simple actions, easy to do right now. I'm bad at taking breaks so I think from now on I'll keep an open tab just for this.

Pros:

Simple and so effective!

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None

Okii Eli
Congratulations
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@nextstevejob Thank you!!
Pierre Vannier
Congrats Anne-Laure!!!
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@pierre_vannier Many thanks, Pierre!! 🙏
devarsh ruparelia

This was made in 24 hours, which is quite an achievement. Hope some positive future development takes place because of this digital mental health aid 🤞

Pros:

tips are cool

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none

Kelly Miller
Love this idea!! Can’t wait to put this to use!
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Maker
@kellyfmill Thank you so much, Kelly! 🙏
Claire

Conscious that I'm using screens so much every day, this is a reminder of how to boost wellbeing.

Pros:

Easiest thing to install and make a difference to how I feel

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None