"Quick break" to Hacker News. Forty minutes later.

The developer rabbit hole

You hit a boring ticket, a flaky test, or a five-minute compile, and you flip to Hacker News, Reddit, or YouTube "just while it builds." But these sites are bottomless, and the context switch costs you the thread you were holding in your head. The boring ticket stays open for the rest of the day.

The hardest tasks to start, the tedious bug, the PR description, the tests, are exactly the ones the feed rescues you from.

How WorkflowGate helps

You add the task you are avoiding, "fix the failing CI test," "write the migration," "review the open PR." During your work hours, reaching for a blocked site sends you back to that task. Finish it, check it off, and your sites open for a timed break.

• Block Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, X, or anything that eats your build time.
• The block screen names the actual ticket, so "I'll do it after this thread" stops working.
• Big task? Start a short focus session and earn the break by pushing through it.
• Honest, scarce skips for the times you really do need to look something up.

Why it fits dev work, and respects your machine

WorkflowGate is local-only by design. No account, no sign-up, nothing leaves your device, the extension reads the active tab URL purely to compare it against your blocklist and redirect, and stores your tasks and settings in local browser storage. For anyone who reads permission prompts carefully, that matters. It requests the minimum: storage, tabs, alarms, notifications. No host permissions.

See exactly what it can and cannot touch in the privacy policy.