Yaroslav Neznaradko

@stats_feed 30 min sounds easy until you actually measure it. Most people are shocked when they see where their hours really go. Not just on social media, but across the whole day.

📱 Limiting social media to 30 minutes/day cuts anxiety and depression symptoms by 25-40% in young adults.

every empty circle is a day I didn't open social media here's my 2026 so far.

@scottdomes really well put the cognitive fatigue angle is something most productivity takes miss entirely. i'd just add that whether you choose to hustle or unwind, both need the right motivation and tooling to actually beat the scroll habit. the direction is personal

it’s a bit ridiculous to say “the time you spend scrolling could be spent building a business/writing a novel/reading the classics”. sometimes that’s true but usually scrolling happens as a result of cognitive fatigue, and the idea that you can just “swap in” another intellectually demanding task means you’re treating your body/mind as a machine a better approach would be “the time you spend scrolling could be spent taking a stroll/napping/staring out the window/having a meandering conversation with a friend”. that’s both more palatable and probably what we’re actually craving when we reach for our phone: a brief break from the demands of life, and a time to let our mind relax

@SinaHartung why is this so accurate?

too shy for tiktok too ugly for instagram too dumb for substack too slow for chess.com welcome to x

@viditb peak design process I always try to start with sketch in notebook. Even with a simplest one

Btw if people are wondering, how I designed these. This was my design tool. Yep, no Sketch / Figma / Photoshop used to design.

@louisagareiss Yes I did and I failed miserably. 3 upvotes on launch day

Are we still doing product hunt launches for apps???

a good read?

@thekitze artisanal design

if u listen closely, somewhere a designer just created a new layer with a rectangle in figma 💀 that thought is frying me

@dantefofante > This does not need to be a bad thing. Exactly. I've been always saying that modern social media is way to sophisticated technology to ignore. Take a look at algorithmic feeds. With proper tuning, you can get a ton of genuinely interesting content!

There is no absolutely no cure for social media. You can try deleting it from your phone, logging out, setting timers, none of it matters. It is futile. You will inevitably (begrudgingly) make your way back. It is part of life. This does not need to be a bad thing. This means that there is quite literally only 1 thing you can do: MAKE THINGS. Whatd uncle ben say? With great power comes great responsibility. Yes yes. Create. Build a brand. Make videos. Dont even worry about turning it into a career or gaining a following. Just use it to turn on muscles in your brain that have been dormant for years. See what happens. Have fun with it. Share what you learn, what you like, use it as a digital journal. A digital scrapbook. Back when I started it was literally nothing more than a big fuck you to the system. And yeah, now I’m more addicted to my phone than I’ve ever been, but I’ve also never felt more creative and motivated. I think im helping people or at least entertaining them and that is worth its weight in gold. A purpose! Plus this app pays me to yap about sardines and yachts. Kinda neat.

Why do I always think "I need that one" every time I see Braun watches in my feed?

@MKBHD I went even further and made an app 6 years ago that makes you pause when you unlock your phone - check out Intenty app

NEW VIDEO - When you go to doomscroll or open an addictive app, Android 17 has a new feature called "Pause point" Full video: youtu.be/eFeDpUVEy48

@JacobyBrandon sorry, what are instants?

Instagram launched the feed, but it become too curated, and so… Instagram launched stories, but they became too curated, and so… Instagram launched instants, but…

@NWOBruh @sentientist After a couple of years of research, my take: a reward system that encourages mindful phone and social media use. But it has to be personalized. Some people are driven by a good screen time score, some are happy with gamification, others need something different entirely

@yarsanich @sentientist Any other suggestions?

In adults, limiting smartphone functionality to texting and calls and blocking all social media and mobile internet for 2 weeks significantly improved attention, self-reported well-being and mental health. 90% of participants experienced a benefit.

@spottedinprod I hope I'm not late to the party! "oh my hours" app open distracting app and see the hour gone on day progress grid apps.apple.com/gb/app/oh-my-h…

need new apps

@FonsMans @figma beauty! been to SF once. can't stop thinking about the software product billboards

Love seeing my work featured in the “Made in @Figma” campaign in SF!

@thekitze I still believe it's possible to use it wisely and deliberately. Am I delusional?

@kitze/killing-my-social-media-addiction-df91122c2322" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@kitze/killing… 2019 jfc

@RasmusNielsen @bobek_balinek my respect for making it that way too many subscriptions nowadays, even taking into account that they are good for app makers

@yarsanich @bobek_balinek No subscription. Just one-time payment. 🙌

So @RasmusNielsen dropped an update to his app Tinker and I’m loving the polished UI elements. 😍. It’s like he brought back the good old OS X days and mixed them with liquid glass in a watchmaker’s attention to detail. That Aqua-esque tab bar is just 🔥

Finally, @Apple fixed a regression bug in Screen Time API that triggered screen time monitors when device was connected to the charger developer.apple.com/forums/thread/… Now I can see my screen free hours without false positive hour at the end of the day