Timeslicer is an AI-powered screen blocker that watches your screen, detects distractions, and blocks them in real time. It’s like having a drill sergeant in your computer who knows your goals, when you’re slacking and forces you to lock in.
Origin Story I’ve struggled with ADHD my whole life. I’ve tried every desktop blocker out there: Cold Turkey, Freedom, you name it. But the problem isn’t blocking... it’s detection.
Current Blockers don’t know what you’re doing. They just block domains.
Core Idea Timeslicer is different. It uses AI to actually watch your screen and detect distractions. YouTube, Twitter, mindless docs, whatever. If it senses you’re straying from your goal, it triggers a full-screen overlay.
How It Works - 🧠 An LLM classifies your active tab’s content in real-time - 👁️🗨️ If it’s a distraction, Timeslicer blocks the screen with a visual overlay - 📈 You get a live counter showing distractions blocked and minutes saved - 🖥️ We also built a **full desktop app**, it monitors everything outside Chrome, like games, Discord, or YouTube apps - ⚙️ Add goals, custom schedules, and skip lists - 🔒 All processing is local or via OpenAI with **zero data retention**
Vision My vision is to build a full AI focus engine that knows your goals, detects intent, and helps you become the best version of yourself. Less like a blocker, more like a co-pilot for your mind. This launch is the start of this vision
Thanks for checking it out, I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback 🙏 Shreyan, Founder
@hotslicer Congrats on launching this Shreyan 👏 As someone with ADHD, I love the detection-first angle. Curious how do you handle the gray zones (e.g. research on YouTube vs mindless scrolling)?
Timeslicer understands the text and content you are viewing. If it sees things like "AI" "paper" "research" its going to get the picture as compared to "top 10 sports"
Give our chrome extension a try and you can see what I mean!
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@hotslicer Love this idea 🔥 Standard blockers always felt too blunt. Curious how Timeslicer will handle content that can be both work and distraction (like YouTube research or Twitter for marketing) — will users be able to train it to their context?
@anastasiiazhur Thanks Anastasiia! We have made it so that you can add goals. So if your goal is "YouTube marketing research" it's going to block against that. Do you think we should try a different system?
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@hotslicer I think this may be a problem only for a certain category of users and maybe you are not targeting them. )) I am judging based on the desire of my team. For some team members, studying entertainment content is part of their job. So if there was a way to fix this, it would be great. For example, there would be an option to exit the block with a wooden "password", showing that "no. I am working now, at least I can look like I am having fun." If I want to improve my work and get rid of distractions, then such a mechanism could help me stop during distractions, but it would not block my work if it was actually part of the job. But these are only my political forces and entrepreneurs. I am sure that you understand this better ))
During our launch I set my goal to "scan Twitter and Reddit threads for leads". Timeslicer let me browse, but did add the block when I went to off-topic subreddits.
On a blocker page we also have a "did we block wrong" button. Here, you can type a 8 - 10 word phrase and the block will disappear.
Congrats on the launch 👍 But I'm caught somewhere between "I need this desperately" and "I'm scared this AI is going to become my new boss and judge my life" 😂
@talshyn haha, I can feel that. Our "strict mode" is definitely more on the judgy boss side, some users prefer the friendly mode where you just get a little popup. As long as you are saving time!
Shreyan, this is something I need. I’ve used conventional block list style apps for years but I always catch myself stuck somewhere else. I block Instagram and end up on YouTube shorts, I block YouTube and end up on Reddit, etc. I love the idea of an intelligent blocker to keep my attention laser focused, as a student founder I can’t wait to try this and am beyond excited to see Timeslicers‘ progress!
@theliamdavis Thanks Liam! That's exactly what i was going for. Past blockers actually made me more unproductive by how archaic they were. What other productivity systems do you use?
This is an original idea. Always needed that kind of stuff. Searched on chrome store and best I can find is blocking sites. Now I can write "game" and it blocks game sites? Crazy...
Timeslicer
Origin Story
I’ve struggled with ADHD my whole life. I’ve tried every desktop blocker out there: Cold Turkey, Freedom, you name it. But the problem isn’t blocking... it’s detection.
Current Blockers don’t know what you’re doing. They just block domains.
Core Idea
Timeslicer is different. It uses AI to actually watch your screen and detect distractions. YouTube, Twitter, mindless docs, whatever. If it senses you’re straying from your goal, it triggers a full-screen overlay.
How It Works
- 🧠 An LLM classifies your active tab’s content in real-time
- 👁️🗨️ If it’s a distraction, Timeslicer blocks the screen with a visual overlay
- 📈 You get a live counter showing distractions blocked and minutes saved
- 🖥️ We also built a **full desktop app**, it monitors everything outside Chrome, like games, Discord, or YouTube apps
- ⚙️ Add goals, custom schedules, and skip lists
- 🔒 All processing is local or via OpenAI with **zero data retention**
Vision
My vision is to build a full AI focus engine that knows your goals, detects intent, and helps you become the best version of yourself. Less like a blocker, more like a co-pilot for your mind. This launch is the start of this vision
Thanks for checking it out, I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback 🙏
Shreyan, Founder
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@hotslicer Congrats on launching this Shreyan 👏 As someone with ADHD, I love the detection-first angle. Curious how do you handle the gray zones (e.g. research on YouTube vs mindless scrolling)?
Timeslicer
@tonyabracadabra hey Tony, that's what we specialize in :)
Timeslicer understands the text and content you are viewing. If it sees things like "AI" "paper" "research" its going to get the picture as compared to "top 10 sports"
Give our chrome extension a try and you can see what I mean!
@hotslicer Love this idea 🔥 Standard blockers always felt too blunt. Curious how Timeslicer will handle content that can be both work and distraction (like YouTube research or Twitter for marketing) — will users be able to train it to their context?
Timeslicer
@anastasiiazhur Thanks Anastasiia! We have made it so that you can add goals. So if your goal is "YouTube marketing research" it's going to block against that. Do you think we should try a different system?
@hotslicer I think this may be a problem only for a certain category of users and maybe you are not targeting them. )) I am judging based on the desire of my team. For some team members, studying entertainment content is part of their job. So if there was a way to fix this, it would be great. For example, there would be an option to exit the block with a wooden "password", showing that "no. I am working now, at least I can look like I am having fun." If I want to improve my work and get rid of distractions, then such a mechanism could help me stop during distractions, but it would not block my work if it was actually part of the job. But these are only my political forces and entrepreneurs. I am sure that you understand this better ))
Timeslicer
@anastasiiazhur Yes I believe we support this right now!
During our launch I set my goal to "scan Twitter and Reddit threads for leads". Timeslicer let me browse, but did add the block when I went to off-topic subreddits.
On a blocker page we also have a "did we block wrong" button. Here, you can type a 8 - 10 word phrase and the block will disappear.
DeepTagger
Congrats on the launch 👍 But I'm caught somewhere between "I need this desperately" and "I'm scared this AI is going to become my new boss and judge my life" 😂
Timeslicer
@talshyn haha, I can feel that. Our "strict mode" is definitely more on the judgy boss side, some users prefer the friendly mode where you just get a little popup. As long as you are saving time!
What do you currently use to stop distractions?
This is a great product. So smart. Congrats.
Timeslicer
@thesolster Thanks Sol!
Shreyan, this is something I need. I’ve used conventional block list style apps for years but I always catch myself stuck somewhere else. I block Instagram and end up on YouTube shorts, I block YouTube and end up on Reddit, etc. I love the idea of an intelligent blocker to keep my attention laser focused, as a student founder I can’t wait to try this and am beyond excited to see Timeslicers‘ progress!
Timeslicer
@theliamdavis Thanks Liam! That's exactly what i was going for. Past blockers actually made me more unproductive by how archaic they were. What other productivity systems do you use?
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This is an original idea. Always needed that kind of stuff. Searched on chrome store and best I can find is blocking sites. Now I can write "game" and it blocks game sites? Crazy...
Timeslicer
@ardator Thanks!
And in fact you don't even have to write "game"! We flipped it from writing down what you want to block vs writing down what you want to DO.
So say your goal is "send out client proposals". It's going to block everything not aligned with that on any website or app