Eudaimonia
yoo-dai-mon-EE-a · Ancient Greek
He meant it as a verb — flourishing is something you do, daily, by acting like who you mean to be. Eudaimon starts with its smallest, hardest rep: going to bed when you said you would.
The behavioral psychology answer to doomscrolling.
Meet the device ↓
A bedside box that takes your phone at night, holds you to your own wind-down, and gives it back in the morning.
The problem
The you at 11pm isn't the you who set the alarm at 8am. Same body, different will.
If you can't put your phone down at night and stick to the routines you actually want, you're far from alone — it's one of the defining problems of our time. And the data is clear: most doomscrolling happens after dark, when your willpower is lowest. Fix the night, and the next day stands a chance.
How it works
Most apps fail because they ask your most depleted self to make the call. Eudaimon does the opposite: you set your rules in the morning, when you're clear-headed — this is called a Ulysses contract — and a physical device holds them when evening-you would break them. And 80% of getting better is just getting to bed on time.
Why not just an app?
Where it lives
Does it know you followed through?
When you're at your weakest
What it feels like
How it plays out
While you're on track, it's just soft guidance — it only makes itself felt the moment you start to slip.
Time to wrap it up. A gentle reminder to send those last texts and do whatever you need to be ready to hand over your phone.
A short checklist you wrote yourself — each item negotiable or non-negotiable, so a hard night still ends in bed.
Your phone goes in a real box that physically detects it. No tap or checkbox can fake the commitment.
Eudaimon is a physical thing in your room. Through audio and visual cues it becomes increasingly hard to ignore, and there is no button to make it stop. The only way out is to do the thing you decided this morning: dock the phone.
Eudaimon is your alarm clock, so your phone can stay in the box for those precious few minutes where you stretch, breathe, and actually wake up. Then your phone is yours again.
This is the system already working for our test users — now you can reserve yours.
Reserve your spotFeatures & methods
It works because of where it lives and how it's built — off your phone, physically real, with a ritual that makes the commitment actually stick. We want the whole thinking out in the open: Eudaimon is co-developed with neuroscientists and fellow psychology students at HU Berlin, and every principle behind it lives on one page.
The principles & methods →Where it stands today
Over a dozen people are living with it right now.
Hand-built early units on real nightstands — rough around the edges, honestly. But it works, and nobody wants to hand them back.
I just want to keep using it — it's that effortless.
„Ich will einfach nicht mehr aufhören — so leicht geht's."
A genuine relief to do this every evening.
„Echt eine Erleichterung, das jeden Abend zu machen."
I finally actually go to bed, instead of hours more on my phone.
„Endlich gehe ich abends wirklich ins Bett, statt noch stundenlang am Handy zu hängen."
At night I don't have to think about it anymore — the box takes care of it.
„Abends muss ich nicht mehr drüber nachdenken — das macht die Box."
The early numbers — 17 active testers
Questions
The first production run is €99 — the founders' price, for early backers only. It goes to €149 afterwards. Reserving now costs nothing; you only pay when your unit ships.
No. Reserving just holds your place in the first run and locks in the €99 price. No card, no charge — we only reach out when it's ready to ship.
You're never truly locked out. There's a way to get your phone back early — it just takes a deliberate moment, by design, so it stays a real commitment and not a one-tap escape hatch.
Yes. Eudaimon doesn't track your usage, your apps, or your location. The only thing it can share — and only if you switch it on — is a quiet "missed bedtime" note to one person you choose.
Any phone fits — iPhone or Android. The box holds the phone itself, so it isn't tied to one model or operating system.
The first run is in production now. Reserve your spot and we'll send you the timeline and first access the moment it opens — no fake countdowns, just the real date when we have it.
Reserve the first run
Lock in the founders' price.
We're building a limited first batch, properly made: a purpose-built case, USB-C, the works. It won't be many — and reserving puts you first in line at the founders' price, before anyone else.
Founders' price · first production run only
No payment today — reserving is free and holds your price. 30-day money-back once it's in your hands. No spam, ever.
For proof we can pull this off: my last venture, Fedani Labs — a shipped hardware product with its own Kickstarter. Eudaimon is the much bigger swing.
Who's behind it
I'm David — a 21-year-old student and hardtech founder. And someone who's fought doomscrolling for years.
It sucks. A lot. I've tried every solution out there — the screen-blocking apps, all of it — and nothing held for long. So I spent the last months with the smartest people I know, drafting something that finally works.
I've built and shipped hardware before — Fedani Labs. This time the scale is just bigger, and the mission matters more.
There's real science behind why the evening is the hardest part. Read the Eudaimon principles →
