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The phone has turned against you
You can't focus when it's within reach
It has turned you into a dopamine junkie
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
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.
Average time to return to focus after a distraction
Average time a knowledge worker stays on the phone before switching
Median time devs spend in deep work per day
The key is to develop a systematic approach to managing and minimizing distractions
Imagine you could work uninterrupted for longer periods.
Just one week of consistent effort can make a significant difference in your productivity and overall success.
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
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
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."
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
In an empty bedroom your brain seeks easy comfort. In a pod, it can't.
Seeing others grind triggers autonomic vigilance
Mirror neurons sync you to the tribe's pace
A subconscious social floor stops you slacking
Ambiguous bug tickets starve your brain of dopamine. Banked units fix that.
Incremental progress is the #1 daily motivator
Not big milestones — small, visible wins
Every banked Deep Work Unit is guaranteed proof of progress
No playlist picking. No decision fatigue. Focus from minute one.
40Hz acoustic stimulation syncs your prefrontal cortex
Sharpens attention circuits, filters background noise
The pod's calibrated stream does it for you
No. Mics stay muted, cameras point at your workspace, and there is zero screen sharing. Nobody ever sees your code, so it is 100% NDA safe.
You lose your $10 ante to your pod partners. That is the whole point. The pain of losing snaps you out of the scroll faster than any blocker app ever will.
Every engineer passes a $7 identity check before joining a pod. Ghosters lose their ante and get removed. You only ever work with verified engineers who show up.
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.
End the session with a clean Screen Time screenshot and your ante comes back automatically. Bank the win, log your Deep Work Unit, done.
Verified engineers only. A $7 identity check unlocks your 7-day trial and keeps ghosters out of your pods.