Before your phone touches your mind.
Your apps stay shut until ten minutes with God are done. No skip, no override. Every morning you keep grows a tree.
Android first. iOS starts reminder-first until Apple approves the block.
17 already in. The app isn’t built yet.
Covers your whole first year, then holds $39 a year. Refundable for 7 days.
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Your phone wakes up before you do.
“The algorithm was awake before I was. By the time I’m done scrolling, the first hour of my day is gone.”
I went public so I couldn’t quit on it.
I’m building this every morning, on camera. The same streak it asks of you, it asks of me first. Strangers are watching the tree, including the mornings I lose.
17 people already choosing God before the scroll. The app isn’t built yet.
Three things, then it gets out of the way.
- Hard block. No skip.
- Ten minutes with God.
- A tree, not a streak.
A practice, not a productivity app.
Ten minutes is not the cost. It is the order. Seek first the kingdom, then the day, then the phone.
- 01
Pick your distractors
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Reddit, anything that owns your morning. We start with smart defaults and you adjust.
- 02
Wake up to the gate
Tap a blocked app and instead you see today’s verse, your tree, and a Begin button. There is no skip.
- 03
Ten minutes, then your day
Walk through verse, reflection, prayer. The tree grows. The gate releases. The day begins on the right foot.
The app is still being built. This is the walkthrough, so you can feel the ten minutes before it ships.
This is the gate, not a metaphor.
You reach for a blocked app and this is the screen that opens instead. The day’s verse, your tree, and one way forward. There is no skip.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season.
Psalm 1:3
The apps you chose to block stay locked until your ten minutes are done.
No override, no five-more-minutes, no skip button hiding in a corner. The apps you chose to block open after the practice, not before.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
From Marques
“My phone used to wake me up. Now God does.”
I’m Marques. I’m building Before the Scroll for the version of me who picked up the phone before he picked up his Bible. Three years of willpower, app timers, black-and-white screens, leaving the phone in the kitchen. By lunch the app was back. By Tuesday the rule was gone.
I’m the first user. I’m the first failure. If it doesn’t work on me, it doesn’t ship. So I’m building the thing I actually needed, in public, every morning. Not a productivity hack. A practice that gives the first ten minutes of the day to God before the phone touches my mind, then gets out of the way.
If this is where you are too, I’d love for you to be one of the first 500 supporters. We’re building this together.
Marques
Five hundred seats, still dark.
Every point below is a seat nobody has taken. A dollar puts your name on one and lights it. The first one lit is the one that tells me to build this.
Pay what you want until launch.
The app isn’t built yet. What you give is what builds it.
17 people already before the scroll
Whatever the amount, you are one of the people who decided this should exist.
One payment today, nothing recurring until the app is in your hands.
You’re betting on someone who shows you every morning, including the ones he loses. If Before the Scroll isn’t for you, I refund you within 7 days. No questions.
Stripe checkout · 7-day refund · we never see your card number
When the app ships, everyone else gets a 7-day free trial and then pays $4.99 a month or $39 a year. Pay what you want ends that day. A seat taken now covers your whole first year and holds that $39 rate for as long as you stay.
Even ten minutes counts.
The tree grows when you do.
$39, or pay what you want from $1. Your first year free at launch, then $39 a year held. One of the first 500 seats. Refundable for 7 days.
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No charge to join the list. One email the morning the app opens. That’s the whole list.