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Silex: Stop Gambling
Silex blocks gambling on iPhone, 90 days programm
Silex blocks gambling across your whole iPhone — every app and browser — and guides you through a 90-day CBT-based program, an SOS button for urges, and money-kept tracking. No account, no ads, nothing you write leaves your phone.
Hi everyone, I'm Kyrylo, a solo iOS developer in Kyiv.
I built Silex because I watched someone close to me go through a gambling problem, and at the time there wasn't much I could actually do. When I started reading about how betting apps are designed (the near-misses, losses dressed up as wins, live odds every few minutes) it was clear it isn't a fair fight. It's one person's willpower against a building full of people paid to keep them betting.
So Silex tries to even that out:
• It blocks gambling across the whole iPhone, every app and every browser, not just Safari. It also walks you through self-exclusion and a bank gambling block, the two layers you can't undo at 1am.
• A 90-day program, about five minutes a day, built from CBT material for gambling disorder.
• An SOS button for the worst minute: rate the urge, breathe, ride it out.
• It counts the money you kept, not the days you white-knuckled.
• A slip never resets you to zero.
Two rules I didn't break:
1. Nothing in the app spins, and nothing is random. No mystery rewards, no near-misses. A quit-gambling app shouldn't run on slot-machine psychology.
2. No account, no ads, and nothing you write leaves your phone. There's a Face ID lock and a discreet mode, so nothing on your lock screen says what the app is for.
Crisis helplines are free whether or not you pay. The program and blocking are a subscription with a free trial. It's not treatment and doesn't pretend to be. Every source is listed at trysilex.com/methodology
I'd really value honest feedback, especially from anyone who has quit gambling or helped someone who has: what would actually have helped in the first week?
About Silex: Stop Gambling on Product Hunt
“Silex blocks gambling on iPhone, 90 days programm”
Silex: Stop Gambling was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #116 on the daily leaderboard. Silex blocks gambling across your whole iPhone — every app and browser — and guides you through a 90-day CBT-based program, an SOS button for urges, and money-kept tracking. No account, no ads, nothing you write leaves your phone.
On the analytics side, Silex: Stop Gambling competes within Health & Fitness, Productivity and Lifestyle — topics that collectively have 748.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Silex: Stop Gambling performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Silex: Stop Gambling?
Silex: Stop Gambling was hunted by Kyrylo Lozovyi. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Kyrylo Lozovyi