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Launch HN: Station (YC W18) – One place for all your web apps Hi HN, We’re Alex and Julien, the founders of Station ( http://bit.ly/2y9nPfS ). Our free desktop app unifies all your work applications in one neat interface. Think of it as an efficient workspace for all your web tools. We’ve always had a love / hate relationship with our browser: it’s been our main work environment for the last 6 years but we keep struggling to stay focused and never found an efficient technique that would fix my natural impulse to open a new tab and get distracted. After trying quite a few methods (Pomodoro, White noise, Do Not Disturb, …) & tools (Franz, Toby, Rambox, OneTab, etc.), we came to the conclusion that distraction is a core-design issue in modern browsers that can’t be solved with cosmetic changes or simple hacks. If you look at the very first Chrome interface (released 10 years ago!) you’ll notice that it isn’t significantly different from today’s v69. What has dramatically changed is t...