Ken Nersisyan

Ken Nersisyan

Founder of Disciplines, Senior Engineer
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Senior frontend engineer who builds his own stuff on the side. Currently working on Disciplines, an iOS app that connects tasks, habits, and goals to actual screen time blocking, so distraction management is tied to your own routine instead of just being a blanket ban. Always down to talk shop with other indie devs and builders.

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1mo ago

Disciplines: App Blocker - Screen time blocking that's tied to your tasks and habits

Disciplines connects screen time blocking to your actual tasks, habits, and goals, so distraction management is tied to your own routine instead of being a standalone toggle. Set up tasks, build habit streaks, run focus timers, and let app blocking back up the plan instead of fighting it. An analytics page shows where your time actually goes over days and weeks, not just today. Built solo as an iOS app, meant to give you something concrete to redirect to instead of just another lock screen.
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2mo ago

I kept tapping "Ignore Limit" on my own Screen Time, so I built an app that doesn't let me

Hey Product Hunt, I'm Ken, a senior frontend engineer, and Disciplines is the first thing I've built entirely on my own.

It started from something dumb and specific: I'd set an Apple Screen Time limit, then tap "Ignore Limit" about fifteen seconds later, every single time, zero friction. The lock itself wasn't really the issue, the issue was that once I got knocked out of an app I didn't have anything else lined up, so I just tapped back in out of boredom.

So I built an app that ties the blocking to what I'm actually supposed to be doing that day. Tasks, habits, and goals live in the same place as the blocking, so a focus session locks the distracting stuff and points you at something concrete to do instead of just leaving you staring at a lock screen. It's less about the blocking itself and more about having an actual routine behind it.

Disciplines: App Blocker, would genuinely love to hear what you think if you give it a try.

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2mo ago

What are you building?

Comment below what you are building.

I'll start:

https://devdoc-ai-five.vercel.app/

It is an ai tool that will pull relevant content from pdfs or documentations the user gives e.g stripe docs given and stripe setup returned

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