👋 Hi Product Hunt

I’m Felix, a humane tech ethicist first, a software designer second, and a developer third, which led me to found Telos with the mission to accelerate the realignment toward a humane technology future.

GIFT CODE FOR THE FIRST 200 BELOW.

🕊️ Why I made this --

How we will live our lives is simply an extrapolation of how we spend each ordinary day. 4.5 hours a day, we wear our phones like gloves, which means we are set to waste 13 years and 4 months of our lives staring at a screen.

With these new habits of the mind, all wellbeing indicators have been in utter freefall as brainrot short-form content, meaningless connection, and petty status games have taken over our lives so profoundly. Collectively, we have hit a record 4,400,000,000 regretful hours on TikTok and Instagram each passing day—which equals 500,000 years every 24 hours...

We are set to lose a decade of our lives to the screen we wear like a glove, and to live every other hour in its aftermath. That destination need not be our life’s story if we design our environments with care.

The 21st century requires more than just time & task management; it requires “attention management,” and Telos is committed to setting the standard for it.

💻 How & 📲 what --

While you’re in the flow, writing, say, an important essay, research shows a single interruption can cost you 23 minutes to regain focus (Gloria Mark, Attention Span). It’s an attention-switching tax you only notice when you stand up and realize you’ve barely gotten anything done all day. That’s why shielding you from distractions and interruptions, holistically, is paramount.

With Telos, one Telic Timer does exactly that—on every screen at once. Blackout Mode kicks in immediately and syncs between iPhone and Mac in 3 levels:

Level 1, Locked Apps & Hidden Feeds: the apps that pull at you are locked on your iPhone, and the recommendation feeds of YouTube, Reddit, X, and more all disappear on Safari and Chrome.
Level 2, Do Not Disturb: silences all notifications.
Level 3, Adaptive Grayscale: renders your phone dramatically less engaging.

As far as I know, no app but Telos ties these levels together across your devices so effortlessly to empower your precious undivided, sustained attention.

🎁 Gift --

Telos is designed around academic excellence, and our primary customers are the students who walk the courtyards, work the labs, and pull all-nighters in the libraries of Ivy League Plus universities.

Everyone deserves digital health, so I recently opened up Aspirant Access to all, 100% free: the whole Digital Diet half of Telos, the most holistic screen blocker on the App Store, now complemented by our new Chrome extension and Mac companion, Telos | HUD.

This post celebrates the recent launch of HUD, which is also 100% free, so you can try it right now! I’d love to talk with more people using it to learn more about everyday challenges so I can tinker further!

Get HUD on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/telos-hud-be-indistractible/id6821814757?pt=123701757&ct=producthunt&mt=12

And as a thank-you, I’m giving away 200 lifetime Foundation Series memberships, which unlock the full iOS time & task management app, normally reserved for Ivy League students or those willing to pay the monthly tuition of $24.99. See telos.guide/pricing & telos.guide for more information about the tiers.

Go to platform.telos.guide/invite and enter code HUNTER while the spots last!

Tell me: what’s the one distraction you can never seem to beat?

Pursue objectives worthy of your best with Telos.

Warmly,

Felix Meritis