App Founder Motivated to Help People Struggling With Phone Overuse
This is a personal statement from the founder of Polar Bear Helps expressing their motivation for building a phone overuse management app. It is not a problem statement but a founder story. The digital wellness app space has multiple established competitors including Screen Time, Freedom, and Opal.
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