Show HN: I built a way to live with a dumbphone

1 ahtavarasmus 0 5/16/2025, 11:39:57 AM lightfriend.ai ↗

Hey! I know many people are addicted to their smartphones including me, so I built a way to actually use a dumbphone in today's world. You just connect your stuff like whatsapp, email, calendar etc. and can then access them through SMS or voice calling with an AI assistant.

There are a lot of apps on smartphones that allow you to reduce screen time but they all require you to fight the desire to not delete them. Even if you are disciplined, it takes away energy from your life that could be used elsewhere. Moving to a dumbphone frees you completely since there is no way to get lost to the algorithms even if you tried.

Hope you find it as useful as I have :)

-Rasmus

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Show HN: I built a way to live with a dumbphone

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