BePresent

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!

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1yr ago

Charles Winston

BePresent

Maker

@benln @jack_winston1 Couldn't have said it better myself. So happy to be working on such an important problem with my brother!

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1yr ago

Edouardo Vitale

@benln @jack_winston1 Amazing honestly !!!

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1yr ago

Asad Dhamani

Solvemigo - ChatGPT for Telegram

@jack_winston1 how do you compare yourself to opal

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1yr ago

Harsh Makadia

100+ Marketing ChatGPT-4 Prompts

Congratulations on the launch, Makers! Just curious how it is different from the app I used in past one-sec.app?

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1yr ago

Jack Winston

BePresent

Maker

@makadiaharsh hey Harsh! Glad you asked. Instead of making the consumer experience more frustrating by simply adding friction to opening apps, BePresent makes it fun to develop a mindful relationship with your phone by turning it into a game. Think streaks, leaderboards, and even real-life rewards to motivate you to limit screen time and block distracting apps. This approach is backed in psychology, with the net result being a constant awareness in the back of your mind whenever you use your phone.

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1yr ago

Charles Winston

BePresent

Maker

@makadiaharsh Apps like one sec want to make your phone as difficult to use as possible. We’ve found that this often has the opposite effect. Users get frustrated and annoyed, and remove the app altogether. Our approach uses the same habit-forming psychology that social media uses, but to help you stay OFF your phone. When addiction is so strong, we believe this is the only way to solve it for most people, especially for those of us in Gen Z who grew up with phones attached to our hips. We give you the tools to reduce your screen time, but instead of making it frustrating to use for phone, we make it MOTIVATING to get off your phone. Hope that makes sense :)

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1yr ago

Juan Carlos Marin

I love it, been using it since a year ago, it keep me mindful about my time used on phone. Feature I like most are yesterday review were you can like or dislike your yesterdays total time used, daily tip, and that you can exclude 2 categories. I like it doesn´t block apps by default, because I tried those and they end up being frustrating. Instead BePresent helps you to be conscious about how much time you spend, I think managing or changing your mindset towards the use is more important that restriction, but you can manually take a present session which would actually block apps, except the ones you selected to be excluded.

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1yr ago