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Show HN: SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon)

21 points by aam1r 14 years ago · 5 comments · 1 min read


Hi HN,

We participated at the Mozilla WSOH (http://wsoh.eventbrite.com/) over the summer. It was a hackathon organized by Mozilla for interns all over Silicon Valley with an attendance of over 300+ interns from Facebook, Google, etc.

A friend and I made SurfControl and were the winners of the hackathon. We just pushed our product live and would love to get feedback!

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About SurfControl: "SurfControl is an add-on that shows you how you waste time online, and gives you tools to block or limit your time spent on different websites."

It is a Firefox add-on and can be downloaded at http://getsurfcontrol.com

Would you use this tool? Why/why not?

frenchieee 14 years ago

Definitely super cool. I'd like to use it, (for Chrome please!), although it might be kind of terrifying. However, the more you know and all that...

Nicely done!

Edit: I love graphs! Seriously, visual representations are AWESOME.

ryanlchan 14 years ago

Looks similar to RescueTime (http://www.rescuetime.com/). What's the differentiation strategy?

md1515 14 years ago

Very cool add-on. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

  • aam1rOP 14 years ago

    Thanks!

    We're planning to add more features such as more charts/statistics, etc.

    We will also be working on a Chrome add-on soon

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