Habbit

slowly kill your reddit addiction

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Inspiration

We were all chronically addicted to Reddit, and all the productivity extensions out there took a "cold turkey" approach. We felt like our method of gradual addiction treatment is more effective.

What it does

Over time, we slowly remove elements on reddit that are addicting (CTA's, voting counters, comment counts, etc.). This way, the user willingly develops indifference towards the platform opposed to fighting the hard wired behaviour that Reddit expertly ingrained.

How we built it

We performed research on how drug rehabilitation is performed at rehab centres, and incorporated those practices into the design of the extension. We used jQuery to manipulate the DOM elements.

Challenges we ran into

Time was the main constraint, as we spent the first half of the hackathon discarding dead-end ideas midway.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Finishing in time and shipping an application that can be used immediately by other addicted redditors.

What we learned

jQuery and better familiarity with building chrome extensions.

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