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Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions

(www.foqos.app)
225 points awaseem | 1 comments | 21 Jan 25 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hi HN!

Super proud to showcase Foqos! I wanted to create a way to physically block apps on my phone, always had a bunch of NFC tags, combined the 2 together over the holiday break and Foqos was born. You can create profiles, write them to NFC tags and track your weekly focus.

Its completely open source and will always be free! There is an affiliate link in the app for nfc tags and donations are completely optional

Link here: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/foqos/id6736793117

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ajoseps ◴[21 Jan 25 18:38 UTC] No.42783695[source]▶
I use the brick app: https://getbrick.app/, and it works pretty well, but they have this weird bug where selecting certain apps on a block list crashes the app. They have a pop-up indicating that it's some apple-related bug, which I find kind of hard to believe. Is this something that also happens in your app?
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awaseem ◴[21 Jan 25 18:56 UTC] No.42783899[source]▶
I haven't noticed this on my personal use. It does seem like they use the family picker activity built into iOS. So maybe the issue is here as well.
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ajoseps ◴[21 Jan 25 18:58 UTC] No.42783929[source]▶
It doesn't happen to every search. For me personally, if I try to search for apps starting with "r", it tends to crash. Not sure if it's related to the number of applications it needs to search for that match the prefix (for this case I was trying to block reddit).
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1. awaseem ◴[21 Jan 25 19:08 UTC] No.42784055{3}[source]▶
Maybe its the list of app you have on your device? For me its fine but changes as the list is to long? Just a random guess though