Slack-native focus for startup teams

Lock in. Tune out. Get it done.

Focus for individuals, insight for teams, no spying.

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Ghost, a pixel-art hooded girl, working on her laptop at a desk in Hypnix Town, with a little ghost pet floating beside her.

The problem

Your attention is getting chopped into pieces

~47 seconds

About how long people now spend on a screen before switching to something else.

~23 minutes

About how long it takes to get back to the work you were doing after an interruption.

Research by Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine.

Hypnix is built to fix this: fewer switches, a softer landing when you do get pulled away, and a clear picture of where your day gets split.

Features

Four small tools that protect deep work

  • Trance Sessions

    Timed focus blocks that set your Slack status, snooze notifications, and hold messages until you surface.

  • Re-entry notes

    When something pulls you away, Ghost asks where you left off and shows your answer when you come back.

  • Context-Switch Counter

    A weekly score for how often your day gets split, plus your top interruption sources.

  • Runway estimate

    Hypnix reads your calendar and tells you how much uninterrupted time you really have.

Feature spotlight

Hypnix Town

Your main screen is a pixel-art mini town. Your tasks, your focus sessions, and pixel avatars of the coworkers you work with most all live together. Ghost shows you around.

Pixel-art mini town at night with a task board hall, a Trance Hall marked with a purple swirl, and a meeting house with a calendar.
  • In a trance
  • In a meeting
  • Free

The science

Built on research on attention

  • Attention residue

    Sophie Leroy, 2009

    When you switch tasks, part of your attention can stay stuck on the task you left, which can make the next one harder.

    Why this works: Leroy's attention residue research shows why fewer, better-protected switches matter. Trance Sessions are built for exactly that.

  • Ready-to-resume plans

    Leroy and Glomb, 2018

    Writing a short plan for how to pick an interrupted task back up can reduce that leftover attention.

    Why this works: Leroy and Glomb's ready-to-resume plans are the idea behind re-entry notes. Ghost asks where you left off, then hands your answer back.

  • Plan making quiets unfinished tasks

    Masicampo and Baumeister, 2011

    Making a specific plan for an unfinished goal can ease the mental nagging that goal creates.

    Why this works: Masicampo and Baumeister found that a concrete next step can quiet an open task. Hypnix prompts you to capture one when you're pulled away.

For managers

Team insights without surveillance

Managers get team-level trends only. Never individual data.

What managers see

  • Focus hours, across the team
  • Meeting load
  • Top interruption sources

What managers never see

  • Individual distraction logs
  • Personal scores
  • Task-level time

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FAQ

Questions, answered

Does Hypnix read my messages?

No. It only sees task names, session times, and the tags you choose.

Do I need to use the web app?

No. It works fully in Slack.

Who is it for?

Startups and teams of about 5 to 100.

What does it connect to?

Slack and Google Calendar today.