Title: Hi HN,<p>We&#x27;re Alex and Julien, the founders of Station (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getstation.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getstation.com&#x2F;</a>). Our free desktop app unifies all your work applications in one neat interface. Think of it as an efficient workspace for all your web tools.<p>We&#x27;ve always had a love &#x2F; hate relationship with our browser: it&#x27;s been our main work environment for the last 6 years but we keep struggling to stay focused and never found an efficient technique that would fix my natural impulse to open a new tab and get distracted.<p>After trying quite a few methods (Pomodoro, White noise, Do Not Disturb, ...) &amp; tools (Franz, Toby, Rambox, OneTab, etc.), we came to the conclusion that distraction is a core-design issue in modern browsers that can&#x27;t be solved with cosmetic changes or simple hacks. If you look at the very first Chrome interface (released 10 years ago!) you&#x27;ll notice that it isn&#x27;t significantly different from today&#x27;s v69. What has dramatically changed is the number of working hours you spend in it.<p>That&#x27;s why we built Station: it&#x27;s a SaaS focused, distraction-free platform (600+ apps) that&#x27;s not meant for browsing but solely for working with web apps. This translates in the first features we shipped: a &quot;Quick-Switch&quot; (a la Alfred) that allows you to quickly change page without losing focus, a &quot;Smart Dock&quot; that segments your workspace by automatically linking all pages to an app, a &quot;Focus Mode&quot; that kills all notifications with 1 click and an &quot;Autosleep&quot; (a la The Great Suspender) that intelligently unloads unused apps from your computer&#x27;s memory.<p>We realize we still have a long way to go to offer the delightful experience we aim for, but we&#x27;re committed to it. There are quite a few technical challenges, the main one being pushing the Electron framework to its limits: copy&#x2F;pasting is sometimes erratic, CPU load can spike, embedded Chrome is constantly obsolete, support of extensions is experimental, multi-window is a bit laggy, and I could go on and on :)<p>We won PH&#x27;s Product of the Year award last year (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;station-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;station-3</a>) which led to a huge boost in active users. This comes with increased pressure to ship features and kill bugs: the community-fed roadmap (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.getstation.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.getstation.com&#x2F;</a>) is completely crammed but our team of 8 is truly grateful for the user feedback we&#x27;ve been getting. It&#x27;s been really precious, both motivation and product-wise.<p>This is just the beginning. Our vision is to build an entire operating system for SaaS applications. We want to provide a platform so 3rd party developers can build new features on top of existing web apps, offering users a more native and integrated experience across all of their work tools. Ultimately, anyone using web apps at work would find value in using Station.<p>We&#x27;re really excited to get your insights on what we&#x27;re building. On average, our users are active 5h per day in the app: we hope you find it nearly as useful!<p>PS. You can download the app here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getstation.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getstation.com</a>.
It&#x27;s available for free on Mac, Windows and Linux.
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