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Dumb phones
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By utilizing a TCL flip phone paired with customized call routing, Dumb.co targets screen addiction by making social apps physically inaccessible.
Dumb.co turns a cheap flip phone into a call-and-text forwarder so you can leave your smartphone at home. By making messaging intentionally high-friction, it forces you out of screen addiction and restores short-term focus.
The startup focuses on high-quality analog styling as an intentional counterweight to digital overstimulation, hitting a projected $5M annual run rate.
Creator Cat GPT bypassed the crowded software market by building Cat Labs, a startup producing Bluetooth-enabled rotary and corded physical phones. By positioning analog hardware as an antidote to overstimulation, she is tracking toward a multi-million dollar physical brand.
