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Your phone minus the distractions (getbrick.app)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is actually pretty brilliant and innovative.

With other solutions, the "key" that re-enables distractions is always present. Brick allows you to leave that key behind, turning your phone into a new, distraction-free device until you return.

This tickles some part of my brain... The scanning part is so cool. Would you use an app like this?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's cool to see someone making a product like this. I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to use phones more mindfully, and I had an idea for a concept very similar to this. So it's cool to see that other people are on the same wavelength as me.

It would be cooler if the brick was activated by NFC instead of scanning it though. But maybe that's an improvement they can make in a future version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The need for something like this will only grow, as more people realize the damage it's doing.