The thing that would make it harder to ignore is not one more nudge, it is closing the bypass loop.
Most people do not fail at the first blocked tap. They fail 10 seconds later by opening the same site in Safari, switching to a different app, or convincing themselves the session can restart tomorrow. If CogniFocus can notice the second move after the interruption and respond there, the Goblin becomes enforcement instead of decoration.
I would test this as a metric: after a blocked distraction, what percentage of users try a second route within 60 seconds? Reducing that number is probably a stronger signal than total focus minutes.
The feature I would make impossible to ignore is a very specific recovery screen after the blocked tap: what did you mean to do instead, and one button to start that thing now. Blocking alone creates friction, but recovery gives the user a clean next action before they reflexively try another distraction.
The strongest part here is that you are not positioning this as another timer. “Most focus apps count time, CogniFocus reacts to behavior” is the real hook, and it is much more memorable than another productivity dashboard.
I’d keep pushing that angle hard: the product is about interruption recovery, not focus tracking. That makes the Goblin feel less like a gimmick and more like a visible behavior loop.
One thing I would pressure-test before more Product Hunt traffic, app assets, SEO pages, and user memory build up is the brand frame. CogniFocus is clear, but it still sounds like a focus app category name. If the bigger direction is a behavioral productivity companion that detects patterns, blocks distractions, nudges recovery, and becomes part of someone’s daily work loop, the name may eventually feel narrower than the product.
Xevoa .com would fit that larger direction better because it feels more like a modern productivity system than a single focus timer, while still leaving room for behavior tracking, app blocking, recovery nudges, AI patterns, and cross-device focus workflows.
I kept switching apps while working. Timers didn’t fix it, they just track it.
So I built something that reacts in the moment you get distracted and calls you out, helping you return to focus instead of drifting.
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The feature I would make impossible to ignore is a very specific recovery screen after the blocked tap: what did you mean to do instead, and one button to start that thing now. Blocking alone creates friction, but recovery gives the user a clean next action before they reflexively try another distraction.
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The strongest part here is that you are not positioning this as another timer. “Most focus apps count time, CogniFocus reacts to behavior” is the real hook, and it is much more memorable than another productivity dashboard.
I’d keep pushing that angle hard: the product is about interruption recovery, not focus tracking. That makes the Goblin feel less like a gimmick and more like a visible behavior loop.
One thing I would pressure-test before more Product Hunt traffic, app assets, SEO pages, and user memory build up is the brand frame. CogniFocus is clear, but it still sounds like a focus app category name. If the bigger direction is a behavioral productivity companion that detects patterns, blocks distractions, nudges recovery, and becomes part of someone’s daily work loop, the name may eventually feel narrower than the product.
Xevoa .com would fit that larger direction better because it feels more like a modern productivity system than a single focus timer, while still leaving room for behavior tracking, app blocking, recovery nudges, AI patterns, and cross-device focus workflows.