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Sanctum
Pause before YouTube pulls you into another loop
Sanctum is a Chrome extension for people who want to use YouTube more intentionally. Instead of completely blocking content, it adds gentle pauses before impulsive clicks, Shorts loops, and endless recommendations. Features such as calmer thumbnails, intention prompts, mindful breaks, and flow reflections help you notice where your attention is going and choose what to do next. Sanctum is not about control—it is about restoring a moment of choice.
Hi Product Hunt! I’m Wonseok, a solo maker from Seoul. 👋
I built Sanctum after noticing how easily one intentional YouTube visit could turn into an endless loop of recommendations, Shorts, and impulsive clicks.
I didn’t want to build another tool that simply locks people out or treats distraction as a failure of willpower. The problem, to me, was the loss of a moment of awareness—the point where “I chose to watch this” quietly becomes “I’m still watching.”
Sanctum adds gentle friction at those moments. It can calm thumbnails, ask what you came to YouTube for, pause Shorts loops, offer mindful breaks, and help you reflect on where the current viewing flow is taking you.
The approach evolved from blocking more content to restoring more choice. Sanctum does not decide what people should watch. It creates a small space where they can notice what is happening and choose again.
I’d especially value feedback on:
• Which interventions feel genuinely helpful?
• Which ones feel too disruptive?
• Where do you most often lose track of your original intention on YouTube?
Thank you for taking a look at Sanctum.
About Sanctum on Product Hunt
“Pause before YouTube pulls you into another loop”
Sanctum was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #49 on the daily leaderboard. Sanctum is a Chrome extension for people who want to use YouTube more intentionally. Instead of completely blocking content, it adds gentle pauses before impulsive clicks, Shorts loops, and endless recommendations. Features such as calmer thumbnails, intention prompts, mindful breaks, and flow reflections help you notice where your attention is going and choose what to do next. Sanctum is not about control—it is about restoring a moment of choice.
On the analytics side, Sanctum competes within Chrome Extensions, Health & Fitness and Productivity — topics that collectively have 791.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Sanctum performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Sanctum?
Sanctum was hunted by Wonseok Yang. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Sanctum including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Wonseok Yang