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For Software Engineers
Working Remotely

Ship your sprint tickets before 3 PM with zero phone distraction

Dev Pod Protocol drops you into a live 90-minute focus room with one other engineer. You install an app on your phone and PC to measure screen time while you are in the pod. If you stay focused, you get your $10 ante back. If you get distracted, your $10 goes to the other engineer.
Phone app
Desktop app
$10 ante with your partner to motivate you
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Are you feeling overwhelmed by your tasks and lose focus every time you sit down to work?

Nothing is wrong with your skills or your planning. It's the way your environment is structured.
01

You reach for your phone every time you sit down to work.

The phone has turned against you

You can't focus when it's within reach

It has turned you into a dopamine junkie

02

Desktop notifications are more interesting than your work

When you have a notification, you can't help but check it.

You have tried app blockers like Cold Turkey or Freedom

Every time you get stuck you repell yourself from the work

03

You'd rather scroll news or forums than focus

The brain thinks scrolling is a form of relaxation.

Scrolling provides a sense of control.

It turns out that scrolling is a way to cope with stress.

What does the data say about losing focus?

Here are some credible research numbers that support our claims.
23
min

Average time to return to focus after a distraction

47
sec

Average time a knowledge worker stays on the phone before switching

78
min

Median time devs spend in deep work per day

There is a version of you that isn't distracted and completes your work

Imagine you could have a 90 minute productivity boost each day
The Old Way

You check your phone or social media every 15 minutes, losing valuable time and focus.

  • Check phone every 15 minutes

  • Hoping there is something interesting on social media

  • Feeling tired because you are constantly distracted

  • Blaming yourself for not being productive

  • Worrying about your future career

The New Way
The New Way

Get a 90 minute productivity session that helps you focus and complete your work without distractions.

  • Complete your work on time leaving you with more time for yourself

  • Scientifically proven methods to boost your productivity

  • Let the platform guide you instead of relying on your own willpower

  • Become a more acomplished version of yourself

  • Feel like you are progressing in your goals

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It's not a discipline problem. It's a system problem.

Here's why every blocker app and willpower trick failed you before.

Your brain panics when the buffer overflows

Focus is chemically triggered. When you hit a confusing bug, your brain feels real agitation and working memory only holds 4–7 chunks, so a complex codebase overflows it fast. That's when your brain invents the lie: "Open Instagram for 2 minutes to cool down."

App blockers are a wall you can delete

Freedom, Opal, Cold Turkey are negative restriction with zero stakes and zero human presence. Two clicks and it's uninstalled, and you're left feeling even more frustrated than before.

Willpower loses to Facebook's algorithm

You can't beat a multi-billion-dollar dopamine algorithm alone in an empty room with brute-force discipline. It was never a fair fight and it was never your fault.

What a session actually looks like

A 90-minute productivity session with three distinct phases.
01

The Pre-Flight — minutes 0–3

Join the room and state your target for the session.

Install mobile app to track screen time durring session

State one technical target in chat

You put your PC on DND and put the phone in the other room

$10 refundable ante locked in

02

The Deep Work Sprint — minutes 3–85

Zero screen-sharing, 100% NDA-safe.

Mics muted, workspace cameras active

40Hz gamma / brown noise stream syncs brainwaves

A guided 3 minute break every 25 minutes

Friction peaks, your nervous system resets, you stay in

03

The Victory Audit — final 5 minutes

Mics unmute and you share progress

The app will automatically track your screen time and report

Clean? Your $10 comes right back

Relapsed? Your $10 splits to your pod partners

Log +1 Deep Work Unit and write tomorrow's starting point

The Neuro-Social Focus Architecture

Three scientific engines that make focusing the path of least resistance.
Alone
In a pod

The Tribal Mirror

In an empty room, self-sabotage is easy because nobody's watching. In a tight 2–3 person pod, social loafing is impossible. Watching a peer grind triggers your mirror neurons: you won't be the one who opens Instagram.

Loss-Aversion Stakes

Your brain fears losing $10 to a peer twice as much as it wants to scroll a meme. The refundable ante is an un-cheatable tripwire that stops your hand the split-second it reaches for your phone.

The Input Metric

Tickets closed is unpredictable — bugs don't care about your deadline. So you're graded on input: unbroken deep-work tension. Every session you hold is an undeniable, repeatable win.

This takes less willpower than working alone

When you work with other devs, you get the dopamine hit of social accountability and the satisfaction of finishing a task together. The stakes you put in also create a sense of urgency that makes it easier to focus and get things done.
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Why willpower fails by design

You aren't undisciplined. You're fighting documented neurochemical reflexes with brute force. Here's what the lab data shows:

Even if your phone is off or silent it still eats 11% of your brain.

They tested nearly 800 people. Your prefrontal cortex burns energy just resisting the urge to touch it. Put the phone across the room on camera and you get that 11% back instantly.

Dr. Adrian Ward
University of Texas at Austin

Losing $10 hurts 2.5x more than finishing a ticket feels good.

They won a Nobel Prize proving it. "I'll finish early" won't stop you at minute 20. A $10 ante you lose to your pod the second you touch your phone will.

Kahneman & Tversky
Nobel Prize in Economics

App blockers fail 85% of the time. Uninstalling takes 2 seconds.

His research on commitment devices: bans with zero accountability collapse because your brain only needs one weak moment. When two peers audit your Screen Time, cheating stops being an option.

Dr. Dean Karlan
Yale University

The mechanics of flow: how the pod forces deep work

How the environment synchronizes your brain chemistry for sustained, high-intensity focus.

The Tribe Effect

In an empty bedroom your brain seeks easy comfort. In a pod, it can't.

2-3 engineers on camera
  • Seeing others grind triggers autonomic vigilance

  • Mirror neurons sync you to the tribe's pace

  • A subconscious social floor stops you slacking

Small Wins, Daily

Ambiguous bug tickets starve your brain of dopamine. Banked units fix that.

12,000 daily work logs analyzed
  • Incremental progress is the #1 daily motivator

  • Not big milestones — small, visible wins

  • Every banked Deep Work Unit is guaranteed proof of progress

Focus Audio, Built In

No playlist picking. No decision fatigue. Focus from minute one.

40hz gamma range
  • 40Hz acoustic stimulation syncs your prefrontal cortex

  • Sharpens attention circuits, filters background noise

  • The pod's calibrated stream does it for you

We didn't invent these principles. We simply engineered the first virtual environment that connects them into a 90-minute execution machine for remote engineers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know before your first pod.

Is this just another Zoom call?

What happens if I get distracted?

What if my pod partner ghosts me?

Do I have to talk or socialize?

Barely. You state one target in the first 3 minutes, then mics mute for the whole sprint. In the final 5 minutes you drop your Screen Time screenshot in the chat. That is all the talking there is.

How do I get my $10 back?

Ready to ship before 3 PM?

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