Health, home and travel decision
QuitCorn
A technical user can build a useful self-hosted replacement (hosts/blocklist generator + reminders) in about a week using existing open-source hosts lists; larger polished features (mobile apps, extensions, curated proprietary lists) would require more work.
Visit website↗Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$50one-off30 h to build
$10/mo3 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- User chooses blocking preferences → app builds a curated hosts/blocklist and provides install/download instructions → optional scheduled reminders and progress emails
What it still won’t have
- commercial polish, branding, and paid support
- any proprietary blocking rules or curated lists the vendor may maintain
- mobile apps, browser-extension packaging, or hosted account management dashboards
- legal or moderated user-support channels
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
QuitCorn does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a small hosted service in Node.js (Express) + React with Postgres that lets a user select blocking categories and download a curated hosts/blocklist file. Core features: (1) import and merge upstream hosts lists (use Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist and StevenBlack/hosts as sources), de-duplicate and tag entries; (2) user-facing web UI to choose categories and generate/download a hosts file; (3) backend API endpoints to create and store a per-user preference record; (4) scheduled worker using node-cron to send reminder emails via SendGrid SMTP API; (5) deployments via Docker to a single small VPS (DigitalOcean) with TLS via Caddy. Out of scope: building browser extensions, mobile apps, paid billing, advanced analytics, or proprietary curated rules. Include error handling, input validation, basic unit tests for merge logic, and startup/deploy documentation.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Build verdict base78
- Evidence score78
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
