Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Focus Roulette Puts a 30-Minute Wager Between You and YouTube
A chance-based desktop website blocker that decides whether a distracting site opens, then holds that result across refreshes, tabs, and signed-in browsers for 30 minutes.
Why it surfacedFocus Roulette turns self-control into a small, repeatable ritual: one chamber decides access or focus, and there is no refreshing until the timer ends. Its unusually explicit anti-cheese rules, no-browsing-history promise, seven-day trial, and two daily snoozes make it feel less like another hard block and more like a carefully designed moderation machine.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.