Focused Work: productivity timer, $2K a month, self-reported in 2024

Focused Work is a productivity timer with focus sessions, distraction blocking, reminders, and productivity tracking. Its $2K a month was founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of October 2024.

What it actually sells

Focused Work offers Pomodoro sessions, distraction blocking, focus reminders, and productivity tracking. Its site describes it as “A powerful productivity timer that helps you focus and get stuff done.”

How it charges

The pages we read provide a free app download. They do not state a price, and no currency amounts appear on the pages we read.

Where customers come from

The site shows a free app download. It also shows that more than 90,000 people use Focused Work and that it has a 4.9 User Ratings from 1,976 Reviews for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

What stands out

Focused Work supports Pomodoro, Flowmodoro, and customizable timed focus sessions. It tracks daily focus goals and streaks, and it automatically blocks distracting apps and websites during timed sessions.

From the official site

For people who want to be productive , all the time.

Automatically block distractions while the timer is running.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Focused Work's $2K a month is higher than 48% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view is that this needs real work. The buyer would be a person seeking sustained productivity, including a user with ADHD. Distribution would have to come through app-store discovery, word of mouth, or direct outreach to people searching for focus and productivity tools.

The difficult parts would include building reliable timer behavior, distraction blocking across devices, reminders, widgets, Live Activities, productivity tracking, and iCloud synchronization. Competition would come from other productivity timers and focus tools. Support load could include helping users with blocked apps, device permissions, sync issues, and changing platform requirements.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

A focused product can combine timed work sessions, automatic distraction blocking, reminders, progress tracking, and device-level surfaces such as widgets and Live Activities.

Sources

Focused Work official website, fetched October 1, 2026
Indie Hackers product page: revenue founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of October 2024

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure