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Is Ben scrolling TikTok right now?

by GavinAnderegg on 8/17/24, 1:43 AM with 13 comments

• by efilife on 8/17/24, 4:15 AM

  > Think of it as a last-ditch effort, a sort of public confessional as therapeutic tool aimed at defusing the intense compulsion I feel every day to endlessly scroll the world’s most popular video app.

  I think I found a great solution to the problem. The uninstall button may help

• by rgovostes on 8/17/24, 6:00 AM

  Is it accurate? It currently averages to 4 hours per day, or approximately 25% of waking hours spent scrolling TikTok—even while the creator is consciously trying to cut back. I am sure I don’t want to know the cumulative time I’ve wasted on similar sites, but this strains believability.

  (Aside: I’ve never regretted the times I’ve spontaneously deleted my account on sites that sucked way too much of my time. In every case I should have done it years sooner.)

• by diimdeep on 8/17/24, 5:28 PM

  This project seems out of place among other author works which are counter-endless [1], I would expect it to not just count hours but for example nuke profile or erase app from phone after 100 hours of scrolling.

  [1] https://bengrosser.com/projects/

• by wavemode on 8/17/24, 4:14 AM

  I need this for Hacker News.

• by positr0n on 8/17/24, 4:27 AM

  I'm interested in what APIs he used to build this.