I wasn't spending 6 hours a day on social media. But I was spending enough — that kind of ambient, reflexive scrolling that doesn't feel like time until you look up and it's dark outside. The kind where you open Instagram, put your phone down, and somehow pick it back up 30 seconds later to open Instagram again.
I tried the usual fixes. Screen time limits that I'd just override. App blockers I'd delete out of annoyance. Willpower alone, which worked for about two days. Nothing stuck because nothing made not scrolling feel better than scrolling.
for putting your phone down?
That was the whole idea. Not restriction. Not guilt. Just a simple trade: put your phone down more than you did last week, and we'll get you real rewards from businesses you already go to.
I started talking to Austin businesses about it. The pitch was simple — I'll send you people who had to earn their way to your door. No coupons handed out to everyone. No discount hunters. Just people who showed up because they worked for it.
Most of them said yes before I even finished explaining.
This isn't about quitting social media forever — it's about reducing how much time you spend on it. A little less scrolling, a little more living.
Join the waitlist, reduce your screen time, and go spend life living.