Ask HN: Where do you put your time on the internet without wanting to?

1 point·Vishal19111999··4 comments

I am working on a focus app that helps people browse the internet efficiently without blocking websites, especially during work.

One of the major places where people get into a rabbit hole is YouTube.

I would like to know which websites should I tackle first.

Thanks for your suggestions.

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I lose time to Wikipedia. Often, if I’m researching something formally and I come across a concept I don’t necessarily understand well, I will go to Wikipedia for a layperson rundown of what it’s all about. From there, I’ll click on interesting key words that link to other pages within Wikipedia pages, that take me to other Wikipedia pages and somehow find myself going from formally researching about dark triad personality traits in leadership, to reading about the Fermi paradox and blackholes etc etc…

That's an interesting insight. Would be adding Wikipedia to my priority list for sure.

People in my circles mostly struggle with YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, and Twitter.

Jotted! Currently, I am focussing on websites that are of some help and could not be blocked completely at work. I think the most important one here is Reddit. As technologists, we need Reddit all the time but then risk falling into a rabbit hole.

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