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It's a Journey into Mindful Screen Time

I had started noticing just how much time we were wasting on social media every day. One evening, over coffee, my friend Ahmet shared his frustration: "Man, we’re spending so much time on this... Wouldn’t it be great if we had a way to stop ourselves?" His words sparked an idea. “Why don’t we build something for that?” I said. We could create an app that reminds people to take breaks—Restify. Ahmet was all in, so he took charge of the design, and I got to work on the code. As we built Restify, we shared our progress online. People loved the idea, and soon, a community grew around it. After months of late nights and testing, we finally launched the app. Seeing people find peace in those reminders to step back from their screens was incredible. For Ahmet and me, Restify had become more than an app—it was a reminder to stay grounded in a world that’s always online.