Firescroll

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Stop doomscrolling.
Keep your dragon alive.

Scan the QR to vote, react and try the app during the talk

Live poll

Do you often feel you’re wasting time on your phone?

Yes00% 0%0No
Answer on your phone

The problem

We don't choose
to scroll.
We get trapped in it.

2h 23mon social media,
every dayDataReportal, Digital 2024
1½ yrsof learning lost
in teen readingOECD PISA, 2015–2025
46%of teens online
“almost constantly”Pew Research, 2023

Why today's fixes fail

Timers and blockers
don't work.

  • Time limits are just annoying

    Maps, messages and reading count against the same 30 minutes as the feed.

  • Lockouts are easy to ignore

    Cut off mid-task, people disable the blocker — and never turn it back on.

  • Screen-time stats are useless

    Knowing you scrolled four hours doesn't make tomorrow any different.

Live

Introducing

firescroll

Stop scrolling,
save your dragon.

Made for teenagers. Doomscrolling hurts your dragon — putting the phone down makes it grow.

Live demo on your phone now

How it works

Every scroll is a move.
Your dragon keeps score.

01

Scrolling deals damage

Every mindless scroll costs a heart. Texting, reading, maps: free.

02

Resist, and it survives and grows

Hearts heal, XP climbs around the clock, and your dragon evolves.

03

Climb the leaderboard

Friends' dragons, weekly ranks, progress you can feel.

Why it's different

Guilt makes you quit.
Caring makes you stay.

Blockers cast you as the problem. Firescroll makes you the keeper of something worth protecting.

  • Emotional attachment

    You hatched it. You named it. Nobody lets Ember get hurt for a feed.

  • Intrinsic motivation

    You stop because you want to — not because a timer told you to.

  • Fun instead of guilt

    A game you're winning, not a habit you're failing.

Vision & market

Parents are ready to pay. Nothing they buy survives the teen.

Both sides already want out — 38% of families argue about phone time. Parents buy controls, teens delete them. The demand is proven; the product isn't.

76%
of parents say managing their teen's phone time is an important or top priorityPew Research Center, 2024
45%
of teens say they spend too much time on social media — up from 36% two years earlierPew Research Center, 2025
$1.6B
spent on parental-control apps a year, growing 11.6% — money already leaving parents' pocketsFortune Business Insights, 2025
  1. NowAndroid beta · doomscroll detection · your first dragon
  2. NextiOS · friends and leaderboards · evolutions and rarities

One question

Guess how much a parent would pay per month for their kid to use Firescroll.

$?/ month
Type your guess on your phone

The room says

What this room thinks parents would pay

$—/ month

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The team

One builder shipping.
Three advisors who've done it before.

Open a profile on your phone

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That's Firescroll

Thanks for listening.
Now, your questions.

And two things we're looking for

  • The first 1,000 teens Intros to schools, clubs and parents who'll run the beta for real.
  • Teammates A game designer, and a growth hacker.

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Your turn

Now hatch your own.

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