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BaaS helps you achieve your goals, making sure that you follow through on what you plan. Making sure you achieve your goals by giving you a boss, to follow up & monitor your progress. If you're a procrastinator who wants to get stuff done, join us!

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Dopanope

Put your impatience to good use and stop mindless browsing

Dopanope is a Chrome extension that stops you wasting time on the internet, by pitting your impatience against your craving for a dopamine hit. Change the way you browse with Dopanope's psychology-inspired tweaks.

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Chrome Extensions•Productivity•Tech

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Manasvini Krishna

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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! 🤓

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2yr ago

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.

2yr ago

Great job!

2yr ago

Boss as a Service

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@nataliia_golda Thanks Nataliia! :)

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2yr ago

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?

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2yr ago

Manasvini Krishna

Boss as a Service

Maker

@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!

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2yr ago

Camille Louédoc

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

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2yr ago

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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

Sofie L

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I have been using BaaS for about 2 weeks now. Its a game changer. I knew about the service for awhile, but the fee seemed steep (although completely fair, these are humans doing a job, after all) when I was a student. I decided to try it now that I have a steady job and let me tell you, the 25 bucks is well worth it, I wish I had given myself this tool when I was still a student! I dont use BaaS for work, but for how I spent my time after work. Harshita helps me make my days fullfilling and fun by motivating me to actually engage in my hobbies and self care, instead of stewing in my ADHD paralysis, doom scrolling for 6 hours and then going to bed. The service: I sent my Boss my todo's in the morning over whatsapp. I also have some recurring tasks going. I text her pictures and videos throughout the day as proof for completing the tasks. She cheers me on and reminds me about the things I still have to do. We are dealing with a bit of a time difference and shes free on sundays, but she answers everything eventually. This definitely only works for a certain type of person. My roommate immediately said "you pay her.. So why would you do what she says"... Yeah, this wouldnt work for her. But if having someone else witness you failing on a daily basis (while being strangely okay with watching yourself fail) sounds like hell to you, this is really going to help. In the past 13 days, Ive only skipped one run (which I made up for the next day). Ive painted, Ive read, Ive cleaned my house for 15 minutes every day instead of letting it get so bad I need the entire sunday to clean up. I sent my todo list to Harshita in the morning and dont have to spend energy during the day on convincing myself to do any of it. I dont have to spend energy on being sad about another day wasted. It saves you so much energy and time (and money, if you make a big weekly grocery run one of your todo's, pro tip), that I truly believe this service could turn a lot of peoples lives around.

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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