Hey Product Hunt 👋 Rahul here, Solo Founder of Memento Mori.

Let's set up some context on why i started working on it, So I was putting in 12-hour days but wasn't getting much done like i'd sit there and code all day but progress rate felt slow so i tried to trace it down and find the common denominator and I found that one thing was common the whole time, Every time I'd open VS Code, I'd also open Twitch or YouTube so what i did was tried stopping the normal way just don't open youtube or twitch I noticed I couldn't sit there and code for more than 20 minutes without background noise.

I needed to know how much time I was actually spending on these websites, so I added a feature to an extension I'd made that would count the minutes on each site. Tracked for a week. 30+ hours on Twitch alone.

I would just put on anything random YouTube or Twitch running in the background. Just noise. Meanwhile my ability to focus on hard things was getting worse and worse. And most of all I wasn't giving 100% to my tasks or goals.

I think I have willpower, but the whole "just have more discipline" thing didn't work. Given my goals, I couldn't keep spending this much time on things unrelated to them. So I spent the next few months hammering at my extension, looking at my distraction patterns and finding ways to fix them.

After a lot of iterations, here's what I built. I thought other people who suffer from these distractions might find it helpful too.

I looked at how I got distracted and made an attempt to fix the patterns. I added these features:

What Memento Mori does:

Morning Protector - Locks down your peak 4-5 morning hours when cognition is highest. Blocks distractions intelligently to protect your most valuable work time.
Why: I kept opening Twitch and YouTube the moment I started coding. To break this habit, I built a tool that dynamically prevents distractions during my morning work hours. After many iterations of testing what to block since blocking sites without the right context was too frustrating and would block things at random I finally found the right balance. It now intelligently blocks only the specific distractions that derail my focus. While I'm still improving it, it works quite well.

AI Session Review - After each work session, AI shows you what you actually did vs. what you think you did. You rate your focus, AI reveals the truth. No more lying to yourself.
Why: Saw someone on Instagram suggest how to have the most productive week of your life it basically said chunking your days into 15 or 30 or 60 Minute Blocks And Writing down what you did sounded tedious but in the comment people were saying it works so I tried it. Had my first 12+ hour focused work day. The act of writing down what I did forced awareness and self-correction. So I automated it: AI watches your activity on the web entire session and gives you a breakdown when it ends. Can't lie to yourself anymore.

Smart Focus Protection - Works with your todos and Pomodoros. Toggle protection on when working, off when switching tasks. When distracted, AI intervenes with your choice: a YouTube short, image, or quote to snap back.
Why: Pomodoros are easy you know when to block distractions as we can see if they're running. But tasks? No clear signal. Added contextual toggles so protection knows when you're actually working and on what for better contextual blocking.

Plus smart tab organization, growth heatmaps, and an AI voice companion that guides/acts as your productivity coach and intervenes when necessary to get you back on track.

More to come as I learn more ways to not get distracted.
The Result of Using This While Iterating and Building: I went from 2-3 hours of real work weekly to 12+ hours consistently. It requires effort from your part too, but having the task protection helps a lot. When it interferes as I'm getting distracted, it gives me a moment to step back and realize that this will end up wasting my time and I'll end up regretting it. Even still, it's hard your brain will try to turn it off or remove the extension since it's used to getting dopamine easily. Any amount of resistance will feel harder than it is, so you'll have to push through it. This reminds me of the quote: "The only way is through."

I have Beta v1.0.30 live right now. Would love to have you try it and see if it helps, and then iterate to make it better and better together.

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Quick question for you:

How many hours do you think you lose weekly to this stuff? Mine was 30+.

What's your biggest trap? For me it's Twitch, but I know people who lose entire days to Twitter or YouTube.

Ever feel like you should be doing something useful, but you have something running in the background so it seems like you're working but you're really not? Like you're at 60% capacity when you could be at 100%?

As a closing note, I Found this out when i was making my landing page:

The average person loses 2.5 hours daily to distractions. That's 912 hours per year - almost 23 full work weeks. Sounds like just a number until you think about what you could actually do with that time. Learn a new language, build something, get good at marketing, anything. And it accumulates over years, so it gets worse.

These companies spend billions of dollars finding out what makes people spend more time on their websites, and they keep fine-tuning these algorithms to hook you faster and keep your attention for longer. It's weird and scary stuff.

I'm here all day if you have questions 🙏

What Memento Mori does:

Memento Mori

Protect your most valuable asset—time—from the web

Protect your most valuable asset—time—from the web