I deleted Instagram two months ago, and yet my thumb still kept hovering over that empty spot on my home screen like a phantom limb. The urge was only ~90 seconds, but in those 90 seconds I’d either reinstall Instagram or bounce to another app, which is basically whack-a-mole for my dopamine receptors. I tried the Reddit trick of opening Notes and writing what I was feeling (FOMO, boredom, “I want to scroll”), and it worked… until my Notes app started looking like I was going through something. So, in the most normal developer way possible, I decided this was “inefficient” and needed an app. In this video I build “Stay Away” in public: I design the whole flow in Figma (including an emergency button and a mascot sloth named Steady that’s actually nice to you), then I attempt React Native and immediately start my Xcode villain origin story. Instead of sinking weeks into native pain before even validating the idea, I used Replit to ship a working MVP fast, test it on my phone with Expo, and push it to TestFlight. The app randomly serves a technique (breathing, grounding, drawing, a small puzzle) to distract your brain for those 90 seconds—because the goal isn’t perfection, it’s interruption.