Bet on your focus.
Win the pot.
MoteMinds turns deep work into a game with real stakes. Put money in, commit to your daily focus hours, and let your Mac prove you did it. Everyone who hits the goal splits the pot.
Free to explore · Stake only when you join a challenge
Today's focus
Deep Work Sprint
6 days
Streak
$540
Pot
18
In the game
How it works
Like StepBet, but for deep work. Four steps from sign-up to payout.
Pick a challenge & stake
Choose a focus challenge that fits your schedule and put the entry stake into the shared pot.
Connect your Mac
Install the MoteMinds menu-bar app and pair it in one click. It runs quietly in the background.
Do the deep work
Hit your daily productive-hours goal on each active day. Tracked automatically — no logging.
Win & split the pot
Everyone who completes the goal splits the pot, minus a small platform fee. Miss days, fund the winners.
Tracking you can't fudge
Real, automatic focus measurement on your Mac — built so the stakes stay fair.
Whole-Mac coverage
Counts focus across your IDE, terminal, and design tools — not just browser tabs.
Idle-aware
Step away and the timer pauses. Only real, active work counts toward your goal.
Automatic verdicts
No screenshots or self-reporting. The portal concludes win or loss for you.
Fair, transparent pots
See the pot, the fee, and the per-winner payout before you ever commit.
No invasive permissions
The agent reads app focus and idle time — no Accessibility access, no screen recording.
Built for Mac
A lightweight native menu-bar app for MacBook and Mac mini. Nothing to babysit.
How the pot works
Everyone joining a challenge contributes the same stake into a shared pot. When the challenge ends, the pot is split equally among everyone who completed it — after a small platform fee. Fall short and your stake funds the people who finished. If no one completes it, every stake is refunded.
Find a challengeExample · 20 players · $30 stake
- Total pot
- $600
- Platform fee (10%)
- −$60
- Distributed to winners
- $540
- If 12 of 20 finish
- $45 each
Each winner gets their stake back plus a share of the rest. Illustrative numbers.
Frequently asked
How does MoteMinds know I actually focused? ＋
A lightweight menu-bar app on your Mac measures real productive time across every app and pauses when you go idle. It reports daily totals to the portal, which decides win or loss automatically.
Do I have to install anything? ＋
Yes — a small native menu-bar agent for macOS. It pairs in one click and only reports your daily focus minutes. No browser tabs or screen contents are captured.
What happens to my stake if I win? Or if I miss? ＋
Everyone who completes the challenge splits the pot equally after a small platform fee. If you miss a required day, your stake helps fund the winners. If nobody completes it, all stakes are refunded.
Is my activity data private? ＋
The agent only sends per-day focus minutes — not which sites you visited or what you typed. You stay in control of what counts via simple app categories.
Which Macs are supported? ＋
Any MacBook or Mac mini running a recent version of macOS. That's the focus for now.
Ready to make focus pay?
Pick a challenge, stake what stings a little, and turn your best work weeks into winnings.
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