I was a homeschooled kid with a laptop, a pile of work to get through, and absolutely nothing stopping me from opening YouTube instead. No teacher watching, no classroom to keep me accountable — just me, my screen, and every distraction the internet had to offer.
"I was 13 years old, sitting in my room in Thailand, and I decided if no one had built the right tool, I would."
So I built FocusLock. Not as a business. Not as a startup. I built it because the right tool didn't exist, and I made it free so every other kid, student, and person who struggles the way I did can have it too — no questions asked, no card on file.
Built for everyone who struggles to focus
Distraction doesn't discriminate. It hits the homeschooled twelve-year-old trying to finish their math lesson just as hard as it hits the entrepreneur trying to ship their product, the university student pulling an all-nighter before exams, or the remote worker who's supposed to be in a meeting but somehow ended up on Reddit.
FocusLock was built for all of them — students, parents, freelancers, people with ADHD, anyone who's ever looked up from their screen and wondered where the last three hours went.
Why it's free — and always will be
There is no premium tier, no trial period, no feature locked behind a paywall, and no plan to change that. The full source code is public on GitHub under GPL-3.0. You don't have to trust me — you can read exactly what the software does, line by line.
The idea that you should have to pay a monthly fee just to be able to concentrate on your own life has always felt wrong to me. So I made it free. And I'm keeping it that way.
One person. No funding. No agenda.
FocusLock was designed, built, and is maintained by one self-taught 13-year-old in Thailand. No company. No investors. No growth targets. Just a kid who had a problem, taught himself to solve it, and decided to give the solution to the world.