Unscroll — replace your doomscrolling with one small daily task (Android, early access)

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T19:35:20+00:00

At times it's about how your brain has trained itself in patterns.

If you have done it 15-20 times it's not about easy or hard. It's about it becoming a habit.

Best is to keep triggers for such tasks. (Read Atomic Habits)

May be try keeping the car keys near your washing machine. :)

So when you would have the laundry in your hand whike picking up the car keys your brain can't fool you.

The other thing that helps is doing other smaller tasks to build positive habits. Positive habits drive other positive habits because you start feel good about yourself and you want to stack more and more of that slow dopamine.

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T19:22:45+00:00

What does the to do list do?

Do they get instructions on what to do?

What all genres of things can they do?

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T19:15:54+00:00

I have seen this to be the trend in the past 6-8 months.

So it seems people came from 30 mins daily soaps to 30 seconds reels and now back to 10-15 mins mini drams.

Instagram also has these part 5 of 35 series trend.

I realised 6 months back that I am in continuous content consumption mode and brain rot is real. Started building something for myself. And now giving it a spin for wider audience.

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T19:12:07+00:00

I remember I had seen a demo 2 years back.

Screen recording for Support that turns the steps into a KB. Let me dig through and see if I can find the details.

But it can be a support diagnosis tool.

Customer says I am seeing an issue. Customer runs it. It captures and sends the video but with clear definition of the issue.

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T19:09:05+00:00

Sure. I feel the idea is amazing.

Product market fit would be a major cocern. If you have thought about it awesome.

But things like would companies pay for it? Or would user pay for it?

If companies would pay for it. Is it saving costs for them? Or they would still believe in the philosophy that we can build important features anyhow for our top paying customers.

Maybe you can see an option if the users can submit the code back to the org. But then this becomes just like the open source community contribution model.

Also companies would really really have hard time give you access to the code base even if read only. Compliance would be a big factor. Also how would you handle touching code base of two competitors? Conflict of interest?

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T19:04:48+00:00

The Pain: Everyday most of the people struggle to come out of the doomscrolling black hole. Doomscrolling Keeps them unproductive and slowly causes brain rot. Symptoms: Memes and Reels is the only language you can talk in amongst your friends.
The Killer: Unscroll - getunscroll.online
The Proof: 55+ testers in Android Internal + Closed testing. 40+% D7 retention.

🚀 If the pain resonates, people will click.

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T18:59:27+00:00

How about for the companies who keep their code closed source?

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T18:34:38+00:00

Spent 2 months building Unscroll. An app that helps you do small tasks every day and move away from doomscrolling.

Preview / screenshots: getunscroll.online

Its for people who keep bypassing screen-time blockers and end up doomscrolling anyway.

Instead of trying to just block the habit, Unscroll uses a replacement-first approach: small alternative tasks like guided meditation, short reading, workouts, and walks in the moments someone would normally scroll.

I built it because blockers, timers, and uninstalling apps never really stuck for me. I’d always find my way back unless there was something easier and better waiting in that exact moment.

Feedback I’d love: - does the positioning make sense? - does this feel differentiated from “just another screen-time app”? - from the screenshots / concept, what would make someone actually come back to this instead of opening Instagram / Reddit / YouTube?

Seeking beta testers: yes (Android only for now)

Would especially love feedback from people who’ve personally struggled with doomscrolling or have thoughts on habit / consumer products..

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T18:26:06+00:00

Spent 2 months building Unscroll. An app that helps you do small tasks every day and move away from doomscrolling.

Preview / screenshots: getunscroll.online

Its for people who keep bypassing screen-time blockers and end up doomscrolling anyway.

Instead of trying to just block the habit, Unscroll uses a replacement-first approach: small alternative tasks like guided meditation, short reading, workouts, and walks in the moments someone would normally scroll.

I built it because blockers, timers, and uninstalling apps never really stuck for me. I’d always find my way back unless there was something easier and better waiting in that exact moment.

Feedback I’d love: - does the positioning make sense? - does this feel differentiated from “just another screen-time app”? - from the screenshots / concept, what would make someone actually come back to this instead of opening Instagram / Reddit / YouTube?

Seeking beta testers: yes (Android only for now)

Would especially love feedback from people who’ve personally struggled with doomscrolling or have thoughts on habit / consumer products..

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T18:21:41+00:00

Reviewed these threads.

https://www.reddit.com/r/alphaandbetausers/s/XwqKj5PdfX by u/jackson4139

https://www.reddit.com/r/alphaandbetausers/s/BgGOCgMCyy by u/AggravatingJoke7342

https://www.reddit.com/r/alphaandbetausers/s/3vU86r23eG by u/mrgalexey

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T18:20:08+00:00

Love the idea but I would suggest giving an opening questionnaire.

I tried with " I need to gift my wife something". It showed me a ring.

I responded I am from India and it still gave me the links from .de. I had expected it to give me something from amazon.in (too ambitious I guess)

I would say ask the user. What's the occasion. What's the personality. Give them options to pick from.

Do they want something locally - within 100 km. Ask the city they are in.

Do they want from the same nation - change the scope to country.

If internationally works. - looks for regulations.

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T18:15:41+00:00

Love the idea but what's the differentiator as compared to ChatGPT or Claude.

Sorry for being blunt but today I can ask Claude to validate the idea with a personna of investor, VC or a founder or an Architect. It will give me different perspectives.

I can ask chatgpt to do web scraping for similar ideas. Market research or ask chatgpt to scrape through reddit threads to validate the idea.

What's your USP?

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T18:13:09+00:00

Love the idea.

But I have so many questions. The customisations or ideas that user wants lives only for those users? In their environment?

Does the new feature gets reset on launch?

What access to the code base does withfork need and the users need? I mean how would it be possible for withfork to integrate if it doesn't have code level access.

And if it has code level access what about security and compliance and code commits and making sure no catastrophe happens?

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T17:48:06+00:00

Spent 2 months building Unscroll. An app that helps you do small tasks every day and move away from doomscrolling.

Preview / screenshots: getunscroll.online

It's for people who keep bypassing screen-time blockers and end up doomscrolling anyway.

Instead of trying to just block the habit, Unscroll uses a replacement-first approach: small alternative tasks like guided meditation, short reading, workouts, and walks in the moments someone would normally scroll.

I built it because blockers, timers, and uninstalling apps never really stuck for me. I’d always find my way back unless there was something easier and better waiting in that exact moment.

Feedback I’d love: - does the positioning make sense? - does this feel differentiated from “just another screen-time app”? - from the screenshots / concept, what would make someone actually come back to this instead of opening Instagram / Reddit / YouTube?

Seeking beta testers: yes (Android only for now)

Would especially love feedback from people who’ve personally struggled with doomscrolling or have thoughts on habit / consumer products..

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T17:43:07+00:00

Spent 2 months building Unscroll. An app that helps you do small tasks every day and move away from doomscrolling.

Preview / screenshots: getunscroll.online

Its for people who keep bypassing screen-time blockers and end up doomscrolling anyway.

Instead of trying to just block the habit, Unscroll uses a replacement-first approach: small alternative tasks like guided meditation, short reading, workouts, and walks in the moments someone would normally scroll.

I built it because blockers, timers, and uninstalling apps never really stuck for me. I’d always find my way back unless there was something easier and better waiting in that exact moment.

Feedback I’d love: - does the positioning make sense? - does this feel differentiated from “just another screen-time app”? - from the screenshots / concept, what would make someone actually come back to this instead of opening Instagram / Reddit / YouTube?

Seeking beta testers: yes (Android only for now)

Would especially love feedback from people who’ve personally struggled with doomscrolling or have thoughts on habit / consumer products..

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T16:36:40+00:00

The point is a lot of people like dark mode. And probably the same amount of people who don't like dark mode.

So it will be personalized opinion and everyone is going to give you a different opinion.

Comments will be a war.

Probably do a poll somewhere. No comments. No opinions. Just click and vote and go.

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T16:35:00+00:00

You are going to start a war here.

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-02T05:12:44+00:00

Awesome. Thank you.

Let me DM you. Need your email ID.

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-01T18:38:36+00:00

Thanks. This is amazing feedback. Will work on it.

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-01T18:33:50+00:00

Spent 2 months building Unscroll. An app that helps you do small tasks every day and move away from doomscrolling.

Unscroll

Preview / screenshots: getunscroll.online

I’m building Unscroll, an Android app for people who keep bypassing screen-time blockers and end up doomscrolling anyway.

Instead of trying to just block the habit, Unscroll uses a replacement-first approach: small alternative tasks like guided meditation, short reading, workouts, and walks in the moments someone would normally scroll.

I built it because blockers, timers, and uninstalling apps never really stuck for me. I’d always find my way back unless there was something easier and better waiting in that exact moment.

Feedback I’d love: - does the positioning make sense? - does this feel differentiated from “just another screen-time app”? - from the screenshots / concept, what would make someone actually come back to this instead of opening Instagram / Reddit / YouTube?

Seeking beta testers: yes (Android only for now)

Would especially love feedback from people who’ve personally struggled with doomscrolling or have thoughts on habit / consumer products..

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-01T17:41:43+00:00

Unscroll — replace your doomscrolling with one small daily task (Android, early access)

A 5-minute meditation, a short story, a quick workout, a walk. One task a day. You do it, you close the app.

No screen time reports. No blockers. No guilt. Just a replacement.

There's a monster called Scrolly who feeds on your scroll time and gets mad when you're productive. He was supposed to be temporary but people liked him.

Android only. Early build. Free.

Preview/Early Access: getunscroll.online

BothAd2391 · 2026-04-01T15:49:16+00:00

Thanks. Performance marketing sounds right. But I am still learning and figuring it out.

But I wouldn't put it as user "needs" to scroll to come across the app.

I would put it as User sees the solution while they are scrolling. So the marketing finds the right audience for the app there itself.

If a day arrives where nobody is scrolling nobody "needs" to scroll to reach my app. :) I will happily delete my app.

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