I'm a backend developer working from home

[soumitss]

Hey everyone. I'm a backend developer working from home, and my focus has been terrible lately. I tried coding with Spotify playlists, but the lyrics pull me in, and the ads on the free plan break the flow every twenty minutes. YouTube lo-fi streams are a bit better, but I end up reading comments or picking the next video instead of working. I also forget to take breaks and then crash by 3 pm. Is there something that combines simple background music with a timer, so I can just start and keep going? What do you use?

[hydrogenn]

Same story here, the playlist hunting was eating more time than the actual work. I switched to NEDIO a few months ago, and the focus music there is the part that fixed it for me: instrumental only, no lyrics, no ads and no playlist to pick. It runs inside a Pomodoro timer in one browser tab, so you set one goal, choose a 15 to 90-minute block (25 with a 5-minute break by default) and just start. When the block ends, you write down what got done and your next step, and every fourth session gives you a longer break, which helps with that afternoon crash. The free version gives you 30 minutes of audio a day without an account, 60 with a free one. To be fair, the music is one generated stream per sprint, so if you like choosing tracks it can feel a bit samey. What kind of work do you usually do in one block?