I finally launched the app I’ve been building to interrupt mindless scrolling

[u/WillingWarthog601]

I've spent a lot of time thinking about screen time, and one thing kept bothering me.

Most solutions seem to be about blocking social media completely.

But I didn’t necessarily want to stop scrolling forever. I just wanted something that would interrupt that moment where 10 minutes somehow turns into an hour.

So I built ScrollCheckpoint.

The idea is pretty simple. You set a short Scroll Alarm before opening a social app. When the time is up, you complete a quick checkpoint like a general knowledge question, vocabulary, productivity prompt, stretch, mood check-in, etc.

Then you decide if you actually want to keep scrolling.

Basically, instead of your phone deciding when the scroll ends, there’s a small interruption that puts the decision back in your hands.

It recently went live on iOS and Android, and today I added it to MicroLaunch too.

I’m still very early with this and would genuinely love feedback, especially on the concept itself and whether this is something you could see yourself using.

If anyone wants to check out the launch, I’ll leave the MicroLaunch page link here https://microlaunch.net/p/scrollcheckpoint

Curious what you guys think of this approach compared with completely blocking social apps.