Network-Level Bedtime Curfew That Locks Every Device a Person Owns, Including Cellular Bypass
A small but emotionally direct thread captured a recurring failure mode: people set an intention to be in bed by 10pm, blink, and it's 2am. They've tried dumb alarms and they don't work. Existing apps (Brick, Opal, ScreenZen) lock individual devices, but a determined user just opens the laptop, or drops to LTE. The thread surfaced an actual workaround — Google Wi-Fi parental rules to lock yourself out of the network at a schedule — which is the strongest signal that the demand exists at the network layer, not the app layer.
Real product is a tiny pluggable router (or DNS profile) plus a phone VPN config that routes cellular through it after curfew. Sell the self-binding angle, not parental control — the customer is a 34-year-old who admits they cannot trust themselves at 11:47pm. Pricing: a $99 one-time hardware + $5/mo for the DNS service. Don't make this a kid product or you'll lose the actual willing-to-pay buyer.
landscape (5 existing solutions)
Plenty of single-device focus apps; plenty of router parental controls. Nothing combines self-binding (you can't disable it from the device once set), multi-device coverage, and a cellular-fallback story. The Google-Wi-Fi workaround in the thread is the closest thing to a real product — except it requires Google Wi-Fi and doesn't address LTE.