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Tommy Dev

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I'm 15 and built a focus app because I couldn't afford the good alternatives

Brain.fm was $7/month. I didn't have $7/month, and I needed to focus.

So I figured out how focus audio actually works — neuroplasticity, frequency entrainment, the real science behind it — and built my own version. I tested it on 50+ students. Teachers started using it during exams, and I still use it.

It's called Super Brain. It's in free beta. You just open it, pick a duration, and press play.

I never really meant to launch a product. I just made a thing that worked, and then other people needed it too.

superbrain.base44.app

Try it. Tell me what you think.
— Tommy, 15

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"I never really meant to launch a product. I just made a thing that worked, and then other people needed it too."

That's the most honest product origin story I've read in a long time. The best tools come from genuine frustration, not market research.

The fact that you went deep enough to understand the actual science — neuroplasticity, frequency entrainment — before building is what separates something that works from something that just looks like it should work.

I built something recently for the same reason: I needed a tool that didn't exist in the form I wanted it. The "built it for myself" path is underrated.

Keep building Tommy. You're 15 and already understand something most founders take years to figure out.