Pausean: Calm Focus Timer - Put your phone down, breathe

Pausean is a calm focus timer for iPhone. Set your minutes, turn your phone face down, and feel three slow breaths as your time begins. Every quiet stretch becomes a stone in your collection, and every duration shapes its own kind of stone. Need your phone? Pick it up. Your time keeps running for 60 seconds. No blocking, no streaks, no guilt. Just a quiet way to put your phone down and see what that time adds up to.

Hi Product Hunt, I'm Ali, founder of Calmsides, and Pausean is our first app. It started with a habit I didn't like. I'd sit down to work or study, check my phone for a second, and look up twenty minutes later. I tried app blockers, but they made me feel watched, and I always found a way around them. So I wanted to build something that works with you instead of against you. In Pausean, the gesture is the timer. You turn your phone face down and your time begins with three slow breaths you can feel through the vibration. When you're done, that quiet time becomes a stone. Over a few weeks you build a small collection, and it shows you something a streak counter never could: how much calm you actually had. If you need your phone in between, you can pick it up. You get 60 seconds to answer that message before the session ends, because real life happens and an app shouldn't punish you for it. For this launch, our autumn event is live. Until November 29 you can find four seasonal stones, and the pumpkin stone is free for everyone. I'd love your honest feedback, especially on this: does turning your phone over feel like a natural way to start focusing, or would you want a different trigger?

Pausean: Calm Focus Timer - Put your phone down, breathe

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