Doorman — Mindful Website Gatekeeper Autor: BEE

Doorman puts a polite hotel doorman at the door of the websites that eat your time.
Before you can enter Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, YouTube — whatever you choose — the
Doorman asks for a password or a quick puzzle. It only takes a few seconds, but that
small pause is often all it takes to turn an autopilot habit back into a decision.

This isn't a hard blocker you'll rip out in a moment of weakness. It's friction, by
design: the door opens for a guest who means it. It only asks you to mean it. And
if you want a firmer hand, an optional daily time limit can close a door until tomorrow
— off by default, and you choose which doors it applies to.

What you can do
• 🔐 Choose your challenge: a password, or randomized puzzles.
• 🧩 Twelve puzzle types — a distorted CAPTCHA, Math & logic, Memory, Typing,
Number sequences, Word scramble, Name the country, Name the flag, Spot it on
the map, Pin it on the globe, Trivia, and Confession — at Easy / Medium /
Hard / Extreme.
• 🌍 Spin a globe you can turn and zoom, and plant a pin on the country you're
asked for. Drawn from real coastlines, entirely offline.
• 🎛 Tune any game to taste: which operations appear in the arithmetic, whether
the memory pads play tones, how long a typing code runs, or whether geography
gives you a line-up to pick from or makes you type the answer. Each panel
shows a live example of what you'd actually be asked.
• ✍ Confession: write out, in your own hand, that you would rather spend the next
hour here than anywhere else. It takes a few seconds. It is surprisingly hard to
finish typing.
• 🗺 Real geography: identify a country from its capital, its flag, or its shape
highlighted on a world map.
• 💡 Stuck on a scramble? Hints unlock as you wait — a clue at 10s, most of the
letters at 20s, the answer at 30s.
• 🎯 Protect any sites you like, each with its own settings and even its own password.
• 🕰 Schedule protection: set your default hours once — all the time, or only on
certain days and times (e.g. weekdays 9–5) — and override them per site.
• 🎟 Decide how long a visit lasts: while a tab stays open, for a few minutes, until
the tab closes, all day, or challenge every single visit.
• ⏳ Set a time limit: a countdown per visit, or a daily allowance per site, with
the time left on the toolbar icon. When the allowance is gone, the doors close
until tomorrow.
• 📊 See how your habits actually move: how often you turned back, how often you
went in, and how much time each door cost you — all of it computed and stored on
your own machine, and switchable off entirely if you'd rather not know.
• 🚪 A deliberately hard-to-reach OFF switch — turning the Doorman off requires
passing a challenge, not a single click.
• 💪 Commit mode for when you really mean it: while it's on, turning Doorman off
demands a gauntlet of hard puzzles — no password shortcut.
• 🌐 Fully bilingual — English and French, including the puzzles and trivia
(French mode adds France/francophone questions). Pick it in the tour, change it
anytime in Settings.
• 🎨 A friendly first-run tour and a classy art-deco design.

Private by default
Doorman has no account, no servers, and no tracking. Everything — your site list, your
schedules, your (hashed) passwords — stays on your device. It never sends anything
anywhere. See the privacy policy for details.

Make time online a choice. Let the Doorman hold the door.