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RegularMonk - Stop doom-scrolling with 4 daily mindful pauses.

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RegularMonk helps you stop doom-scrolling with four short mindful pauses a day. Each pause takes under five minutes and uses a mindful game, breathing exercise, attention task, or reflection prompt to interrupt the moment of impulse. Unlike most wellness apps, there’s no feed, no streak pressure, no endless content, and pauses are time-gated so you can’t binge them. Open it, pause, leave the screen.

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AMIT R
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Hi Product Hunt — I’m Amit, solo founder of RegularMonk. I built RegularMonk because I was trying to be more mindful and sleep better, but kept catching myself reaching for my phone on autopilot. The funny part: I was using Claude Code to build faster, but while waiting for inference/code changes, I kept doom-scrolling Reddit on the side. I was literally building a product to reduce mindless phone use while falling into the exact habit myself. Most screen-time tools either measure the problem after the fact or block apps in a way that feels punitive. I wanted to try a different approach: give people a short replacement ritual at the moment of impulse. RegularMonk gives you four short mindful pauses a day. Each pause takes under five minutes and uses a mindful practice, breathing exercise, attention task, or reflection prompt. After the pause, the app nudges you to leave the screen and return to real life. The product is intentionally anti-engagement: -no feed -no streak pressure -no endless content library -time-gated pauses so you can’t binge it I’d love feedback on: -whether the first pause feels useful -whether the anti-engagement framing is clear -what would make you come back tomorrow Thanks for checking it out 🙏
Karim Ben

Do people get to choose which kinds of pauses they prefer, like more breathing vs more reflection?

AMIT R
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@karimbenkeroum Right now, the pauses are intentionally chosen at random from different formats such as breathing, reflection, grounding, and attention exercises. I wanted the early experience to feel lightweight and a little surprising, rather than making users configure another personalized wellness system upfront.

That said, I do think different people reach for their phones for very different reasons: stress, boredom, procrastination, sleep avoidance, transition moments, etc. So a direction I’m exploring is making the interventions more adaptive over time based on context and patterns, while still keeping the experience minimal and anti-engagement.