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I made OwnTime to balance between competing priorities in my life. The idea is based on two main influences: the concept of "roles" from "The 5 Choices" (2015), and my repeated failure to effectively implement time blocking due to the necessary flexibility in my role.The app allows you to define time budgets, which are not much more than a few mutually exclusive countdown timers. The UX is essentially that of a chess clock for an arbitrary number of players with configurable time.The whole point of the app is to kick you out of the running role/priority when its time is up. One feature that was essential for me was AlarmKit alarms, which only became possible last year (>= iOS 26.1). Another was watchOS support, as a natural surface for time-related matters.The current version is strictly focussed. The timers track time allocation during one day. All timers are reset at midnight. I didn't build any statistics - you can export the raw internal SQLite store and make any evaluation or dashboard you want from there.I don't plan to extend the app nor to convert it into a service. All data stays local on your devices (synced between phone and watch locally) and fully open to you. No need for an account or subscription. Thus, I ask for a small one-time fee of $1.99.The website has a short video and rendered preview: https://owntime.appIf you want to go straight to the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6770125662I look forward to your comments and feedback.
Hacker News14d agoToolAI
Hacker News13d agoToolOther
Infinite Google ReCAPCHA loop trying to access archive.is using current Firefox from Linux. Just started today. Firefox is in "strict" mode. Disabled Privacy Badger for that site, and it didn't help. Tried private browsing, and it didn't help.Is this part of Google's war against ad-blocking and non-Chrome browsers?
Hacker News12d agoToolAI
Content creators and marketers lack an efficient tool to analyze TikTok niches, identify content opportunities, generate tests, create assets, and deliver them directly to drafts.
X14d agoToolMarketing & Sales
Unfollowed 1,000 more people today. Most hadn’t posted in years... Did you do all that manually? Been looking for a way to automate this, myself
X15d agoToolProductivity
Music enthusiasts need a simple app or website to retrieve BPM (beats per minute) information for songs to effectively separate and organize their playlists by tempo.
X15d agoToolMedia
Sports bettors require a tool that scans the entire market across books to automatically find and highlight profitable arbitrage (opposite outcome) opportunities in real time.
X15d agoToolFinance
Builders in the agentic economy need a reliable tool or layer for AI agents to resolve disputes when making autonomous transactions.
X14d agoToolAI
I've been working on my Translation Tool been slowly converting it away from Python ... instead of me manually doing conversion research into C
X12d agoToolDev
Musicians and AI music users need a tool to upload audio and modify just the genre, keeping the original style, lyrics, and vocals intact (beyond current Suno-like tools).
X15d agoToolAI
my problem is that i am doing multiple things at the same time, I am doing the jobs of 4-5 people all by myself, at the same time I get a lot of interruption all day . if I could automate and spend most of my time on the most valuable work
X19d agoToolBusiness
3 wasted hours trapped on hold, bounced around between lifeless automated AI chatbots and cut off mid-call by the organisation that I needed to resolve a specific issue with
X28d agoToolOther
Solo developers could build an app providing real-time singing feedback, pitch detection, breath control tips, and personalized exercises. Current solutions are either expensive vocal lessons or generic karaoke apps lacking structured coaching. [Google Search suggestion]
Google Trends13d agoToolOtherUS
Data scientists write experimental ML code (Jupyter notebooks, research scripts) but struggle to deploy them as production-ready services. The gap between research and production requires significant engineering work.
YC Graveyard2y agoToolB2B / Machine Learning
Hi HN,I’m Lloyd, one of two founders of RonanRx (https://ronanrx.com/). We are building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, compounding, manufacturing, and delivery. We are starting with GLP-1s and peptides.The path to RonanRx is fairly unconventional. During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US. We could make a million masks in a day. We converted raw polypropylene pellets into finished pallets of masks.I had a background in software from my YC W10 company, so we took a software approach to building our factory. We used machine learning and computer vision to optimize production. We also vertically integrated almost everything. It worked. We built an efficient manufacturing operation and grew the business to 50 million dollars in revenue. Then people actually stopped caring about masks. Fair enough.Around the same time, I decided to try and lose the weight I had gained while building the factory. I ate nothing but chicken for six months. While this diet got some results, I plateaued. My doctor suggested tirzepatide, a GLP-1 medication.For me, losing weight was only the beginning. "Food noise" was gone. I showed less interest in other compulsive behavior. I stopped scrolling Instagram and quit biting my nails. But that was just the beginning. I was born with a congenital heart defect called aortic stenosis. My whole life doctors told me I'd need open heart surgery in my 40s (I am 45 now). After just 18 months using tirzepatide, my cardiologist’s began to think (and still thinks) my surgery could be pushed back until I am 70 or 80.This was all happening when I was deciding what to work on next. I wanted to keep working on manufacturing. I didn't want to build another product that could be replicated by a frontier model. Pharmaceutical manufacturing was the best combination of digital, physical, biological, and regulatory infrastructure I
Hacker News13d agoToolAI
The Amazon Alexa app has terrible UX where the AI prompt covers and disables links to view full articles, with no way to dismiss or interact properly.
X14d agoToolOther
Users hate using the iOS home screen and prefer the App Library but are frustrated that widgets cannot be added there, forcing unwanted home screen use.
X14d agoToolProductivity
Researchers and medical professionals lack an accessible LLM that combines 23andMe-style genetic data with medical records to predict or identify genetic disease sequences.
X23d agoToolMedicine & Health