Do you know how much money would you make instead of sitting in Facebook/Reddit?
I'm going to make an app for that this weekend :D
Feature requests and suggestions are welcome.
If you are eligible for overtime, it seems like, say, time-and-a-half is probably going to be more lucrative than a second job.
Are there activities that you would consider productive (you would like to do more) and activities that are non-productive?
There is an idea to assign a positive hourly rate for good time spent and a negative hourly rate to other activities in the internet.
The app would track that time spend and show balance to gamify productivity rise.
They could assign a positive rate for Reddit time.
I'm going to make functionality to assign a rate for each website, a positive or negative one. Even rates for different parts of the website. Also, a potentially useful feature is to make a cap, like the first 30 min per day does not count.
On top of this, you need to take into account the income benefit of leisure time and relaxation, and the income benefit of casual random interactions on platforms like HN, reddit, youtube. And let's not forget time spent learning - associating a monetary amount with it is so so difficult.
> time spent on a distracting platform is useless because in reality the overwhelming majority of people don't have an additional income source where that time can be invested in
Was thinking to propose options for that, e.g. give a link guides how to make a side income, for example, Upwork, creation of youtube channel, etc.
To make it positive is a good challenge as well. I can introduce some scores that would take into account a ratio between time spent on a productive vs non-productive website and show the result as an icon that shows a summary for a day, like learning, leisure, work.
Do you have specific ideas on how to make it more positive?
This is the current idea of how to approach the challenges you have mentioned.
Marketing is very important, but I'll never have a marketing budget big enough to compete. With that thought, odds aren't much better than the lottery.
Next time I won't do advert based mobile games, that's for sure.
I have tried to take into account your comments to make it positive and customizable.
2. You could include affiliate links to services for earning money in free time as an alternative to wasting time with earning estimates given input time and skill level. This could include ride-hail platforms (Lyft, Uber), knowledge work platforms (Fiverr, Upwork), even Mechanical Turk.
Why do you spend time on them? If you can’t answer that question or they don’t net positive value even zero EUR/hour is too much.
I like iOS time tracking feature which tells me that I am too much on HN and Wikipedia.
The problem is not so much Facebook/Reddit, but because I don't have a low commitment way to take a break.
I don't need an app that tells me not to spend my time productively. I need an app that helps me recuperate in 20 minutes. A non-addictive game would be great.
I plan to use this list as a base https://www.reddit.com/r/BLOCK/comments/3ehiy4/distracting_w...
But as a rough guide, if you multiply your salary by 4.5, that’s what you could earn by working 24/7/365.