Before the Scroll
Before your phone touches your mind.
An app that gives your first ten minutes to Him, before your phone can take them. Every morning you keep grows a tree.
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$29 once, $79 at launch. One of the first 500 supporters. Refundable for 7 days.
17 people already before the scroll
The morning
Your phone wakes up before you do.
“The algorithm was awake before I was. By the time I’m done scrolling, the first hour of my day is gone.”
Built in the open
I went public so I couldn’t quit on it.
I’m building this every morning, on camera. The same streak it asks of you, it asks of me first. Strangers are watching the tree, including the mornings I lose.
17people already choosing God before the scroll. The app isn’t built yet.
What it does
Three things, then it gets out of the way.
- Hard block. No skip.
- Ten minutes with God.
- A tree, not a streak.
The morning loop
A practice, not a productivity app.
Ten minutes is not the cost. It is the order. Seek first the kingdom, then the day, then the phone.
- 01
Pick your distractors
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Reddit, anything that owns your morning. We start with smart defaults and you adjust.
- 02
Wake up to the gate
Tap a blocked app and instead you see today’s verse, your tree, and a Begin button. There is no skip.
- 03
Ten minutes, then your day
Walk through verse, reflection, prayer. The tree grows. The gate releases. The day begins on the right foot.
The app is still being built. This is the walkthrough, so you can feel the ten minutes before it ships.
What you actually see at 7am
This is the gate, not a metaphor.
You reach for a blocked app and this is the screen that opens instead. The day’s verse, your tree, and one way forward. There is no skip.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season.
Psalm 1:3
The apps you chose to block stay locked until your ten minutes are done.
No override, no five-more-minutes, no skip button hiding in a corner. The apps you chose to block open after the practice, not before.
The tree
Your practice, painted.
Psalm 1:3. He is like a tree planted by streams of water. Every morning you show up, your tree shows it.
Day 1
Planted
Day 7
First branch
Day 14
Leaves fill out
Day 30
First fruit
Day 90
Fruit in season
Support the build
Pay what you want until launch.
The app isn’t built yet. Your support is what builds it. Pick any amount from a dollar. Twenty-nine or more still locks lifetime access, one of the first 500 seats, and that $29 price is never offered again.
17 people already before the scroll
Whatever the amount, you are one of the people who decided this should exist.
Pick your amount
- $1 and upYour name on the supporter wall. Thank you for making this possible.
- $29 and upEverything above, plus lifetime access at launch and one lifetime seat to gift. One of the first 500 seats.
- $79 and upEverything above, plus your name pinned at the top of the wall and a personal thank you from me.
One payment. No subscription. Pay what you want ends at launch.
You’re betting on someone who shows you every morning, including the ones he loses. If Before the Scroll isn’t for you, I refund you within 7 days. No questions.
Stripe checkout · 7-day refund · we never see your card number
At launch: $4.99 / month, $39.99 / year, $79 lifetime. Pay what you want ends the day the app ships.
From Marques
“My phone used to wake me up. Now God does.”
I’m Marques. I’m building Before the Scroll for the version of me who picked up the phone before he picked up his Bible. Three years of willpower, app timers, black-and-white screens, leaving the phone in the kitchen. By lunch the app was back. By Tuesday the rule was gone.
I’m the first user. I’m the first failure. If it doesn’t work on me, it doesn’t ship. So I’m building the thing I actually needed, in public, every morning. Not a productivity hack. A practice that gives the first ten minutes of the day to God before the phone touches my mind, then gets out of the way.
If this is where you are too, I’d love for you to be one of the first 500 supporters. We’re building this together.
Marques
Even ten minutes counts.
The tree grows when you do.
$29 once, $79 at launch. One of the first 500 supporters.
or pay what you want, from $1Stripe checkout · 7-day refund · we never see your card number
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No charge to join the list. One email the morning the app opens. That’s the whole list.