Many individuals struggle to maintain adequate hydration throughout the day. This problem is particularly prevalent among those who spend significant amounts of time on their phones, often leading to dehydration and its associated health issues.
Dehydration can cause various health problems, including fatigue, headaches, and decreased cognitive function. Despite these risks, people often forget to drink water regularly.
Pain Points
- Forgetting to drink water regularly
- Ineffectiveness of habit trackers
- Ease of disabling app blockers
- Health issues due to dehydration
- Excessive time spent on addictive apps
(to the mods: I'm acknowledging you deleting my posts, I just don't know how else I could rewrite it. I read the sticky post at the top and I think I believe adhere to it) I built an iOS app instead of fixing my habits. Please roast. It’s called ThirstTrapp. It locks the apps I doomscroll on until I drink water on camera. Not a reminder, not a checkbox. Instead, the selfie camera checks there’s a face and a real glass or bottle and that I’m actually drinking for 15 seconds (customizable). Drink -> apps unlock for 2 hours (customizable). Timer ends -> locked again. This exists because I can lose hours to TikTok but forget to drink water like a normal person. Personally for me habit trackers are useless. App blockers are easy to turn off. So I flipped it and let my phone addiction force me to hydrate. It’s annoying. It works BEACAUSE it's annoying. Yes, you can cheat it if you really want to. But if you’re engineering ways to avoid drinking water, that feels like a separate problem. (Talk to your therapist) The apps is already built (iOS, still waiting for Apple review approval), runs fully on-device, no account or registration needed, no cloud nonsense, no internet connection. I’m not raising money. I just want to know if this is or stupid. Because again: personally I'm really drinking more water because of the app. Roast the idea or the fact that I thought this was worth building. If you hate it but would still use it, I won. If you want to see how it works there's a short demovido on my [landingpage](https://www.thirsttr.app/)
An iOS app that locks addictive apps until the user drinks water on camera. It is designed to help users maintain hydration habits by leveraging their phone addiction.