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YouTuber Hank Green’s adorable new app rises to #1 on the App store, beating ChatGPT with a tiny knitting bean

YouTuber Hank Green’s new app Focus Friend has surged to No. 1 on Apple’s free app chart this week, surpassing AI titan ChatGPT, as well as Google and Threads. “This doesn’t seem possible,” the ...
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Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute

You must stay focused. You cannot open TikTok, or Instagram, or whatever little phone games you like to play. If you fail, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project ...
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Hank Green's 'Focus Friend' unseated ChatGPT on the App Store. I used it to help concentrate while writing this article.

I needed to focus and write this article. Hank Green had just the bean for me. YouTuber Hank Green surprise-dropped his app "Focus Friend," saying in a TikTok that it was "the best idea I ever had." ...
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Scrolling instead of working? YouTuber Hank Green's new app wants to help

Can a smiley cartoon bean help you stay focused? Hank Green, one of the earliest and most influential online creators, hopes so. Focus Friend allows users to set a timer to get a task done, similar to ...
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Hank Green's 'Focus Friend' unseated ChatGPT on the App Store. I used it to help concentrate while writing this article.

YouTuber Hank Green's "Focus Friend" app pairs you with a sock-knitting bean, rewarding time spent off your phone. Days after its debut, "Focus Friend" went No. 1 on the App Store, topping ChatGPT.