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LockIn — Put the Apps Out of Reach

lockinscreentime.com ↗ · Useful Tools · score 84.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An iPhone app that blocks selected apps with Screen Time and makes unlocking require a walk to an NFC tag.

Why it surfaced

LockIn turns app blocking into a small physical intervention: put a blank NFC sticker in another room, and removing the shield means getting up to tap it. The site explains the product with unusual clarity, including on-device storage, no accounts or analytics, widgets, and a deliberately neutral emergency-unlock cooldown.

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Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

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