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A friend once told me something simple. It's very hard to walk away from something if you have nowhere else to go.

This is Sam's Tuesday. Sam gets home at seven, tired and a bit lonely. Phone on the pillow, just checking one thing. Then it's 2am, and Wednesday is already gone.

Sam's not broken. The phone was just a cheap button to press, and the evening had nothing else in it.

Over a few mornings, Sherpa notices something Sam hadn't. Tuesdays are the hard ones, late at night after a long day alone.

So the next Tuesday comes with a plan. Get outside before eight, and text Jo about dinner. When Sam's mood dips at nine, Sherpa checks in. At eleven, the apps that pull Sam go quiet on their own.

Of course, a bad Tuesday still happens. It does. The next morning, Sherpa asks what happened right before. No lecture, just a better plan.

Tonight Sam's phone charges on the desk, and Sam's asleep by midnight. Turns out it's a lot easier to walk away when you've got somewhere to go.

Built around your life, not your last slip.

Most quit-porn apps are built around porn. Days since. Streaks. A reset button waiting for you to mess up.

Sherpa starts with the person you want to be and the things you want to be doing. Get busy chasing that, and porn starts to look like a waste of a good evening.

Your peak, in your words

  • Becoming a runner who finishes a 5K before summer.
  • Becoming a guitarist who can play a whole song at a party.
  • Becoming someone who's asleep by 12 and actually makes the 8am.
  • Becoming a builder who ships the app instead of just talking about it.
  • Becoming a friend who stops bailing on plans.
  • Becoming a student who walks into exams ready.
Camp 1

Tell Sherpa the thing you keep giving up on.

Guitar, the gym, drawing, cooking, whatever falls apart around week two. Sherpa builds a plan from habit science: steps small enough that they're hard to skip, tied to a time and place, with points every time you show up.

  • Starts smaller than you think it should
  • Every step earns Altitude Points
  • Next week unlocks once you've climbed this one
Camp 2

Then it clears the path.

A new habit doesn't stand a chance at 1am with every trap one tap away. Shield blocks the social apps and browsers that usually start the spiral, during the hours you pick. Reach for them anyway and Sherpa sends you back to today's step.

  • Block social apps and browsers on a schedule
  • You choose the risky hours
  • Swap the scroll for your next step
Camp 3

Keep the proof. You'll want it on the bad days.

Snap a photo after the run. Write two lines after a rough night. Scroll back whenever you doubt yourself.

The route

Five zones between you and the summit.

The climb is a game, on purpose. Finish steps, earn altitude and move up through five zones. Each one teaches something you'll need in the next.

  1. The Foothills of AwarenessNotice what sets you off, without judging it.
  2. The Forest of HabitMap your loops and swap in better ones.
  3. The Ridge of ResilienceLet urges pass like weather. They're not who you are.
  4. The Slopes of CompassionMess up, repair it, keep going.
  5. The Summit of ClarityLive by what you actually care about.
A mountain trail with signposts for the five zones, from the Foothills to the Summit, with the Sherpa orb on the path

Altitude Points

Every step you finish earns AP. It's how you climb, and your signpost on Home always shows where you're at.

Oxygen

Your O₂ meter shows how steady you've been lately. It slides from green to yellow, orange and red when you drift, and fills back up when you show up.

New zones

Climb high enough and a new zone opens, with new scenery and new kinds of steps.

Gear for the climb

For the moments when it hits, the nights you need people, and the patterns you can't see from inside them.

Pattern insights

Sherpa reads across your check-ins and tells you when things get hard, and what your best days have in common.

Sunday nights after 11 are your hardest stretch.Your best days start with a morning workout.
When it gets hard

Base Camp

Climbers on the same path as you.

  • Week 3 climber

    first weekend in ages i wasn't on my phone at 3am. went bouldering with my roommate instead

  • Week 1 climber

    rough night. opened this instead of the usual. that counts right?

  • Week 9 climber

    it counts. nights were the last thing to get easier for me. give it a few weeks

When it hits

Breathing resets you can do anywhere, even in a bathroom at a party.

  • Breathwork
  • Guided meditations
  • Trigger mapping

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Sherpa is a guide in your pocket for changing your relationship with porn. Instead of making porn the focus, it helps you build a life you'd rather be living: a plan for the things you want to get good at, a setup that makes the hard hours easier, and a diary of the climb so you can see what's changing.

Reach your peak.

Download Sherpa, tell it what you want to get good at, and take the first step tonight.