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u/varsklavi4

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Nudge — a lightweight Mac focus app, an alternative to Cold Turkey & Freedom

I built a friendly focus app to help you doomscroll less!

Hey r/MacApps!

I'm a solo developer, and I built this app because I wanted a friendlier way to spend less time doomscrolling and stay focused.

https://nudgefocus.app/

Problem

It's very easy to open a distracting app or website almost automatically and suddenly realize you've spent far more time scrolling than you intended.

I wanted to build something that helps interrupt that habit without making the whole experience feel overly restrictive or punishing.

Comparison

There are already powerful blockers like Cold Turkey and Freedom, but I wanted Nudge to be a smaller, Mac-first alternative that's simple enough to just leave running every day.

Freedom is great if you need blocking synced across Mac, Windows, iOS and Android, but that also makes it a much bigger system. Its lifetime plan is currently $99.50. Nudge is $9.99 lifetime.

Cold Turkey is powerful and highly configurable, but it feels like an older generation of productivity software to me: more configuration, browser extensions, and a pretty dated experience. Nudge takes the opposite approach: lightweight, native-feeling and built specifically around the Mac.

Nudge lives in your menu bar, with reusable app and website presets, automatic schedules, background sounds, focus time, sessions, streaks and focus patterns.

Basically: I don't want you to spend 20 minutes configuring an app that's supposed to stop you from wasting time.

Pricing

The app is $9.99 for lifetime access.

https://nudgefocus.app/#pricing

I'm also giving away 20 access codes

  1. NUDGE-21F5-9924-9A60-31A9-CE78-95D8-99CF-DB6A
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  3. NUDGE-7B24-05A3-1D4B-5E23-788E-556E-242F-FDCF
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I'm the solo developer behind the app, so feedback is very welcome especially on what works, what doesn't, and what you'd like to see improved!

u/varsklavi4 — 14 days ago
▲ 2 r/Upwork

best strategy in this rip off?

I’ve decided to get back into freelancing on this shit hole of robbery and generate some extra income. I mainly specialize in web analytics and data analytics.

I used Upwork around three or four years ago, and getting clients felt significantly easier back then. Today, the cost of acquiring a client seems extremely high.

For example, suppose you spend around $150 on Connects. Depending on the jobs and whether you boost your proposals, that might allow you to submit roughly 25-40 proposals? Only around 30–40% of them may actually be viewed, only a small percentage will lead to a reply, and perhaps one or two will result in a meeting.

That means a single meeting can effectively cost $50–$150 and even after getting the meeting, you are still competing against several other freelancers with no guarantee of winning the project.

So I’m curious: what strategy is currently working for you?

Do you:

  • Apply only to a small number of highly relevant jobs?
  • Avoid boosting proposals completely?
  • Boost your profile only?
  • Focus mainly on newly posted jobs?
  • Target larger, higher-budget projects?

I’d especially appreciate advice from people who are consistently winning projects in web analytics, data analytics, or similar fields.

What has actually worked for you in 2026?

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u/varsklavi4 — 3 months ago