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Marcus Taylor

Serene - The macOS app to get your focus back 🤫

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Say goodbye to digital distractions and hello to undisturbed deep work with Serene, the macOS app for laser focus.

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Ed Holloway
Marcus & Team Serene - This is great! Over the past few months I've hobbled together something similar using Alfred, some scripts and another "Focus" type app (that only had a few features I wanted). Serene seems to be pretty close to what I wanted to end up with, so Thank you! I see the app says that it blocks notifications, but I don't see the notification center DND enabled. Is this feature really working? (I'm on Catalina - that could be why? ) Looking forward to getting into this more, and ditching my rube goldburg machine :-)
Marcus Taylor
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@edholloway 🤣 funnily enough I started with something similar - it was ironic when it took 5 minutes to turn on all of the productivity tools I had to get into a state where I could focus... So, we don't have notification center DND as a feature yet - I think the mention about notifications is relating to phone notifications with our webhook integration turned on. That's a cool idea for our roadmap though!
Ed Holloway
@marcusataylor Thanks. For me the DND is a must - Serene would be a home run for me if it did that. Would love to know how the Webhook can be used for the phone notifications - that would be amazing!
Marcus Taylor
Maker
@edholloway I've written up a tutorial on setting up the phone notifications here: https://sereneapp.com/webhook-do... Also, if you want to get really geeky, controlling internet connected lights when you go in/out of sessions! https://sereneapp.com/webhook-co...
Ed Holloway
@marcusataylor Awesome, thanks! Unrelated - just finished reading the article Active Campaign did on Venture Harbour. Had no clue that was you until the end of the article mentioned Serene. Love your business model and the one product a year process. I'll be spending some time on your blog!
Ummsekatze
But if I block product hunt, I won't find apps like this anymore... :(
Marcus Taylor
Maker
Nate Davis
Nice, this looks promising. Definitely going to try it out today. Awesome PH marketing vids and images btw!
Marcus Taylor
Maker
@nate_davis Cheers Nate! Looking forward to hearing how you find it - any features/bugs/ideas feel free to fire over :)
Alex Skatell
Any integration with Asana to pull in tasks?
Marcus Taylor
Maker
@alexskatell Hey Alex, not yet but we've considered something along these lines to make the goal & session setting easier. Will add a +1 to this on the roadmap 👍
Kai Gradert
I love the idea. But the irony that you ask people to tweet to skip the waitlist; creating more distractions for others and myself 😱
Marcus Taylor
Maker
Hrishikesh Pardeshi
This looks great! Why don't you consider posting on www.remote.tools as well?
Munir Kamal
This looks a really useful app. I sent an email yesterday without a response yet. Looks like you are having a busy launch time. :)
Marcus Taylor
Maker
@munir_kamal 👋Hey Munir, where did you email? Let me take another look.
Patrick Loonstra
Looks great. Als thanks for the promocode. But I can not use it directly. How do I get on the waitinglist? The CTA on the site does not do a thing.
Nataliya_Alt
Congrats on the launch! Excited to try Serene)
Marcus Taylor
Maker
@alt_nataliya Thanks Nataliya!
Joris
This is exactly what I needed! Thanks for providing a free license! My feedback after using the app for a couple of days: + I like you're asking for the first thing I'll start with - lowers the barrier to start with the task at hand + Love the background sound, gets me in focus mode immediately + All in all have been superfocused whenever I used the app Some suggestions / tips: + The how to set iPhone in silent mode tutorial is not entirely clear to me - step 2 is missing instructions on how to connect IFTTT to Pushcut (could not find an app named Pushcuts) en set Pushcut up. + Ability to set more than one goal - perhaps three could work better and still maintain focus + The Chrome extensions pushes away my Producthunt startup screen :( Will share more feedback as I work with the app for a longer period.
Benjamin Christine
Maker
@jorisknaapen Thanks for your feedback! If you have anymore feedback please get email us hello@sereneapp.com.
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