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ZenMode OS

What I build on my own time with my co-founder, Kamalraaj: a launcher that makes your phone calmer, with friends keeping each other on track.

Product

A phone running ZenMode OS: Zen Score 7/10, a 13-day streak, gold invested, and a ZenCircle comparing friends’ screen time.

ZenMode OS turns your home screen into a calm space built around intent. It doesn’t lock you out. It adds a small pause at the moments you tend to lose time, and makes keeping your screen-time promise something you do together with friends.

Get it on Google PlaySource on GitHub Product Hunt zenmodeos.com

Open source under GPLv3, written in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

How it works

With the pause on, every unlock waits 7 seconds before the phone lets you in. You get 7 skips a day.

Kamalraaj Senthilkumar shaped what ZenMode is; I built most of how it works.

Traction

  • 4.6★

    Play Store rating

    24 reviews

  • 1K+

    installs

    Google Play

  • #14

    of 711 on Product Hunt

    launch day · #1 in Open Source

  • #7

    most discussed

    top 1% of the day

Milestones

  1. 27 Sep 2026

    Kailash Nadh offered to help

    At IndiaFOSS, Zerodha’s CTO found the idea behind ZenMode interesting and offered to help with the Kite API, which powers Gold Invest.

    The LinkedIn post

  2. 26 Sep 2026

    Launch day on Product Hunt

    Two people, one launch weekend, and a community that tried it and told us the truth.

    The LinkedIn post
    The ZenMode OS Product Hunt card for 26 Sep 2026: “Thank you for showing up.”, with its daily rank, #14 of 711, and #1 in the Open Source topic.

  3. 26 Sep 2026

    We launched ZenMode OS

    Your phone isn’t the problem. The loop is. We launched on Product Hunt while spending the day at IndiaFOSS.

    The LinkedIn post

  4. 22 Apr 2026

    Top ~10% of ~780 projects

    FOSS Hack 2026, at IIT Madras in Chennai.

    The LinkedIn post
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