UnDistracted

Reclaim control, Block Social Media Distractions

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Reclaim control, Block Social Media Distractions

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This Chrome extension assists in managing time spent on distracting platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn. These sites can be highly engaging, but completely blocking them isn’t always practical, as they also provide valuable content. The extension identifies the most attention-grabbing elements on these platforms and allows selective hiding of these sections or full blocking of the websites.

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@tweetjai This is an awesome extension! Do you have Patreon page? I'd love to support your work on this.

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6yr ago

UnDistracted

Maker

@tweetjai @omerkhan Thank you, Omer. Glad to know that you found this extension useful. A page in buymeacoffee has been set up for users who'd like to support it. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bet...

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6yr ago

@tweetjai Done. Keep up the great work!

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6yr ago

UnDistracted

Maker

@tweetjai @omerkhan Thanks a lot for the support :)

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6yr ago

Jai. Hi from a fellow side-project voyager! Love this idea of aggregating ideas for different sites into 1 plugin. I have some suggestions though: Make it difficult to turn off a setting (eg: make the user solve a math problem). I'm truly not interested in my fb feed, but I'm very addicted to youtube comments. So I may turn it off when my willpower is high and simply turn it back and refresh when it's low. Also, you must be a backend developer, the color-sense shows 😆 . (I'm no better myself, switched to bootstrap in my SP yesterday after spending months learning and mastering grid and flexbox). My suggestion: keep all tabs same color, but include the site's logo beside the name.

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8yr ago

UnDistracted

Maker

@npras I'm glad to know that you liked the idea. I was using 3 extensions to control each of these websites, so thought of combining all in one place. I like the idea to make it difficult for the user to turn off any setting. Puzzle or maybe disable the filter only after a wait period - like 5 minutes or so; so that we don't fall victim to our habits and impulses and use these sites only for any productive reason. You're right. Getting good at designing is a whole new area and needs more and more practice. Hope we'll get better at it someday 😃 All the best with your side-projects. Keep Creating!!!

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8yr ago

Seazn

Hi @tweetjai I made an app that does pretty much the same thing but for iOS on Safari. Great minds think alike ;) we're actually set to release on product hunt this week! https://feedzen.app/

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8yr ago

UnDistracted

Maker

@hamish_johnson This is really amazing to know that 🎉 1 person messaged me after my Reddit post if I can make something similar for Safari. I'm going to send this conversation's link to them 😄

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8yr ago

Seazn

@tweetjai Thanks so much! 🤗

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8yr ago

Freshworks Inc

Hey Jai, super awesome stuff. Kudos to you. My only concern here is how safe is your extension for browser extension attacks? https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2... Not raising any alarms but today only Undistracted was auto-uninstalled by google chrome as it was changing the Netflix settings. Keep up the good work, but please only release when you're 100% sure about the users security. Cheers, Vishal

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8yr ago

Why did I not know of this until today? Here I was, debugging all these websites to find the feed source for specific distractions. Great work, @tweetjai! One request: I want this on Android as well, and since I use AdGuard, I can just feed it the URLs to block. Can you share the ones you're using? I've only figured out Twitter's so far. One more request: block Reddit home page please? It's likely not easy since it uses GraphQL, but maybe it can be done by blocking hits to the GraphQL endpoint if they originate from the home page.

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7yr ago

Fast.io

I've been waiting for someone to make something like this! I think there's probably a lot of people who need some access for productive reasons like brand building or responding to customers. Love the granularity this allows. Nice job, @tweetjai ! Looking forward to using this.

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8yr ago

UnDistracted

Maker

@tom_langridge I'm glad you find this useful. Thanks for your kind words. I made this because I felt the same that these platforms do have some good parts and some not so good, addictive parts. Hence blocking the entire site or not using them totally is not a very viable option in the current tech-driven world. Cheers!

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8yr ago

UnDistracted

Maker

Hi, This is my second project as part of my adventure into the side-projects voyage. I'll be very glad if even one person finds this product useful in their day to day life. Looking forward to some feedback and suggestions 😃

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8yr ago

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