I built a tiny pet that lives on your screen time. Scroll and it wilts, put the phone down and it thrives

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Solo dev here. This is Mindling, out this week on iOS and Android. Every screen time tracker I tried gave me a chart I stopped looking at by Wednesday. A number never made me put the phone down. I figured feeling bad for a small creature might. How it works: The hardest part was reading screen time reliably. iOS only gives you a sandboxed extension, so the drain runs as a daily ledger that the app and the extension both write to. Feedback welcome, especially on the first few minutes after install. Links in the comments.   submitted by   /u/Inside_Beginning348 [link]   [comments]