Free Chrome extension that auto-tracks your focus, labels sites as productive or not, and grows a sheep based on how you spend your time. It’s effortless, private, and a little too honest about your browser habits.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Yang, one of the makers behind Shepherd 👋
I'm also Co-Founder of Composite (composite.com), and Shepherd came from wanting to understand where my time was actually going in the browser, instead of just feeling guilty about procrastinating.
Why we built this
I used to end every week with the same uneasy feeling: I was busy, but what did I actually do? My days are long as a founder, and I couldn't tell you where any of my time went. I tried pomodoro timers, but they couldn't account for longer work sessions. And manual time tracking felt like another exhausting errand to remember.
My problem wasn't discipline, it was the lack of visibility and granular insights into how I was actually spending my time online.
So I built Shepherd! The name (and the sheep) are a little homage to where I'm from. I grew up in New Zealand, a 10-minute drive from sheep farms, so it felt right to bring a bit of home into the product 🇳🇿
I got our team at Composite hooked on it, then my friends from Stanford started using it too. Turns out everyone had the same blind spot.
What makes Shepherd different
Shepherd quietly runs in the background and tracks how you spend your day in Chrome. No manual input, no start/stop buttons, no friction, super lightweight, and completely passive.
🐑 Simple layout – Your browsing is categorized as productive or distracting in real time. One panel shows you exactly where your day is going, right now.
🐑 Live tracking – We visualize when you're typically distracted throughout the day, and give you a weekly health score. You can stop bad trends before they snowball, or double down on what's working.
🐑 Grow your sheep – This is the fun part! Every day, you get a new sheep that grows based on how you spend your time. Stay focused in long sessions and your pasture flourishes, and your sheep grows up healthy and strong. Get distracted too much and your sheep might get a little dirty. Or sick. It's weirdly motivating to keep a virtual sheep healthy.
Who it's for
Busy professionals, founders, students, really anyone who wants to understand their habits without adding another chore to their day.
I've been using it daily while building Composite and it's genuinely changed how I structure my work. My team has started getting competitive about their sheep, which was not the intended outcome but I'm not complaining 😄
Shepherd’s completely free and takes less than 30 seconds to set up. It's a lightweight Chrome extension, with no accounts or onboarding flows to sit through. I'd love your feedback! Check it out at shepherdtime.com 🐑
What's your biggest struggle with staying focused during the day? Would love to hear from you in the comments!
About Shepherd on Product Hunt
“Focus & Productivity Time Tracker”
Shepherd launched on Product Hunt on February 23rd, 2026 and earned 322 upvotes and 40 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. Free Chrome extension that auto-tracks your focus, labels sites as productive or not, and grows a sheep based on how you spend your time. It’s effortless, private, and a little too honest about your browser habits.
On the analytics side, Shepherd competes within Chrome Extensions, Productivity and Data Visualization — topics that collectively have 705.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Shepherd performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Shepherd?
Shepherd was hunted by Ben Lang. 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 Shepherd including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Ben Lang
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Yang, one of the makers behind Shepherd 👋
I'm also Co-Founder of Composite (composite.com), and Shepherd came from wanting to understand where my time was actually going in the browser, instead of just feeling guilty about procrastinating.
Why we built this
I used to end every week with the same uneasy feeling: I was busy, but what did I actually do? My days are long as a founder, and I couldn't tell you where any of my time went. I tried pomodoro timers, but they couldn't account for longer work sessions. And manual time tracking felt like another exhausting errand to remember.
My problem wasn't discipline, it was the lack of visibility and granular insights into how I was actually spending my time online.
So I built Shepherd! The name (and the sheep) are a little homage to where I'm from. I grew up in New Zealand, a 10-minute drive from sheep farms, so it felt right to bring a bit of home into the product 🇳🇿
I got our team at Composite hooked on it, then my friends from Stanford started using it too. Turns out everyone had the same blind spot.
What makes Shepherd different
Shepherd quietly runs in the background and tracks how you spend your day in Chrome. No manual input, no start/stop buttons, no friction, super lightweight, and completely passive.
🐑 Simple layout – Your browsing is categorized as productive or distracting in real time. One panel shows you exactly where your day is going, right now.
🐑 Live tracking – We visualize when you're typically distracted throughout the day, and give you a weekly health score. You can stop bad trends before they snowball, or double down on what's working.
🐑 Grow your sheep – This is the fun part! Every day, you get a new sheep that grows based on how you spend your time. Stay focused in long sessions and your pasture flourishes, and your sheep grows up healthy and strong. Get distracted too much and your sheep might get a little dirty. Or sick. It's weirdly motivating to keep a virtual sheep healthy.
Who it's for
Busy professionals, founders, students, really anyone who wants to understand their habits without adding another chore to their day.
I've been using it daily while building Composite and it's genuinely changed how I structure my work. My team has started getting competitive about their sheep, which was not the intended outcome but I'm not complaining 😄
Shepherd’s completely free and takes less than 30 seconds to set up. It's a lightweight Chrome extension, with no accounts or onboarding flows to sit through. I'd love your feedback! Check it out at shepherdtime.com 🐑
What's your biggest struggle with staying focused during the day? Would love to hear from you in the comments!