Launching today
HyperSleep
Block social media until you've actually slept
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Block social media until you've actually slept
63 followers
Every screen-time app fails for the same reason: you have to turn it on and at 1am, you won't. HyperSleep flips it. Your social apps stay locked until multi-sensor detection verifies you actually slept. It auto-starts at bedtime, runs 100% on-device, and turns "scroll less" from willpower into an outcome you earn. Android.
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@hypersleep Congrats on the launch, Roddy! Flipping the incentive structure to outcome-based rewards is a super interesting approach. I actually just ran the screen-time blocker and habit-tracking niche through my tool, MarketGapAI, which analyzes thousands of complaints across Reddit and the Google Play Store. Interestingly, the number one reason users delete or give up on strict blocking apps is false positives - like the app failing to unlock because a sensor misread passive awake time (like reading a physical book) as sleep, creating massive user frustration.
Curious to know - how does HyperSleep handle manual overrides or edge cases where the 70% confidence threshold misses the mark, or are you focusing on dialing in the sensor calibration first?
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@alexstartups Great question and you're right that false positives are the #1 killer, so this was a design priority from day one, not an afterthought.
Short answer: we never hold your phone hostage to a sensor reading. The 70% threshold and multi-sensor fusion are how we get accuracy, but they're not the only line of defense, because no threshold is perfect.
Every session has built-in escape hatches:
Quick Break - instant 5-min access, no questions asked (adds 30 min to your goal so it's not free, but you're never locked out cold).
Full Override - ends the session entirely when you genuinely need your apps.
So if you're awake reading a book and the app gets it wrong in either direction, you're one tap from access. The blocking is a nudge, not a prison.
On the calibration side: we fuse Google's Sleep API with motion + light + usage signals and require 20 continuous minutes before counting anything, specifically so passive-awake (sitting still, reading) doesn't get misclassified. That'll keep improving with real-world data, but the override system means users never have to wait for us to dial it in perfectly.
Genuinely appreciate you pushing on this. It's the exact failure mode we lose sleep over (pun intended). What sensors have you seen handle the reading-in-bed case well?
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
What other features does it have apart from blocking at certain hours?
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@busmark_w_nika Hello there Nika. Great question! Quick reframe first, because it's kind of the whole point .
HyperSleep doesn't just block during set hours. It keeps your apps locked until it verifies you've actually slept (Google Sleep API + motion + light + usage signals). So even at 2am, opening Instagram won't work until you've hit your sleep goal, there's no timer to wait out.
Beyond that core:
• 🌙 Auto-starts at your bedtime. No remembering to turn it on
• 🎯 You choose which apps to lock and your own sleep goal
• 🔥 Streak tracking + a morning recap - sleep time, quality %, and how you did vs your goal
• 🆓 Real-life overrides. A 5-min "quick break" (adds to your goal) or a full override with an accountability cost, so it's flexible, not a prison
•🔐 100% on-device; no account, nothing leaves your phone
Love what you're building with your minimalist phone app. We're chasing the same goal from different angles