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Orbital Focus
Deep focus timer that simulate launching tasks into space.
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Deep focus timer that simulate launching tasks into space.
11 followers
Orbital Focus turns every focus session into a rocket mission. Pick a destination, strap in, and stay on task until you arrive. A deep-work timer for iPhone and iPad.
It's like if a SpaceX livestream and Kerbal Space Program met up in a coworking space. Minus the AI SaaS they'd inevitably try to build.
Orbital Focus turns a focus session into a rocket launch. Pick how long you want to work and that becomes your trajectory.
You name the thing you're working on (your payload), pick a crew role like Work, Study, Read, Create, Code, or Write, then launch. There's a real countdown with haptics at ignition, Max-Q, and stage separation. After that you watch your ship climb its actual trajectory over a living 3D Earth that tracks day and night and shows where the ISS really is right now. Longer sessions can split into burns with short coasts in between, basically pomodoro if you want it.
[Real talk, the actual reason I built this deserves more than a canned line here. Ask me in the comments and I'll tell you properly.]
Theres also a bunch of pixel art I made so you can pick real or fictional rockets and stations to fly to.
If other focus timers never stuck for you, curious what you make of this one. I'll be in the comments all day.
Cool concept with the rocket landing thing, but does it actually lock you out of distractions or is it more of a visual motivator? Curious whether the timer just tracks time or if it does anything under the hood to keep you from picking up the phone.
@aryaaltuntokiv It locks you out of all your apps (or some of them) using the Screen Time SDK, so its the native experience everyone on iOS is used to.
The rocket mission framing is such a clever way to make deep work feel like an adventure instead of a chore, and tying the timer length to travel distance is a genuinely smart touch. Curious how you decided on the destination options.
@lakoseoglu88701 The launch sites are an area where if users want I will add more sites, the inital 6 were just for fun and based of famous hsitorical sites, I figures since the app is available globally and in many langauges that people would want to launch from regions close to their homes. For the orbit destinations the original goal was to have the destinations be the moon, mars, etc. This required a totally different math engine so I descoped it for v1 and settled on orbit heights like LEO, Geostationary, etc. Just to add some nerdy fun to the whole thing.
does the destination thing actually pull from real places or is it more of a visual cue? trying to figure out if im staring at mars or just a made up destination
@kezibanlgegjc6 Are you using the iOS app?
@kezibanlgegjc6 I think you might have downlaoded the wrong app, there is an old app with a similar name as ours.
Picked Mars for a 25-minute sprint and the little arrival animation actually made me smile when the timer ended. Simple idea, feels way more motivating than another bare pomodoro app.
@elifnur3asg Thanks for trying it out! Ive hidden easter eggs all over the app for folks to find btw.
@elifnur3asg I think you might have downlaoded the wrong app, there is an old app with a similar name as ours. Try our link at orbitalfocus.app