Blocker X

Build the AA for digital and porn addiction

A YC company (Blocker X / formerly FunSwitch) combines a site-blocker, a peer community like Alcoholics Anonymous, and gamified streaks to fight porn and digital addiction. With ~100K community members, Shaan argues if social media is the new smoking, someone will build the AA for it.

“is there a modern-day AA? Like, if people are right that social media is the new smoking, right, that, um, that, that all this like kind of like overload of technology, overload of digital news and information and social media is making us unhappy and lonely, then isn't somebody gonna build the like AA for that?”

Steal thisPair a blocking tool with a peer-support community and gamified streaks to build a recovery product for a taboo digital addiction.