WiFiCurfew is a battery-free press button that sits on a parent's nightstand and cuts power to the home WiFi router. The press itself powers the radio signal, so there is nothing to charge and nothing to replace. One press at bedtime kills the WiFi for the whole house. One press in the morning brings it back. It is positioned as a deliberately analog answer to a software category (parental controls) that has been bypassed by motivated children faster than vendors can patch each new generation.
The product is built by Egghead Labs Inc. in Lindon, Utah. It uses a battery-free energy-harvesting switch from a long-standing wireless-controls partner, the same class of technology that has shipped in commercial lighting for two decades. WiFiCurfew is a sister product to OneClickReboot (a battery-free button that hard-resets a stuck router), and forms part of an evolving "one job per product" consumer hardware portfolio.
The 60-second story
Founder Jared Eggett spent four years cycling through Apple Screen Time, Circle Home Plus, Bark, Eero parental controls, and a half-dozen other software solutions before realizing that his nine-year-old was bypassing every one of them with help from YouTube tutorials.
Eggett's eventual fix was to walk to the basement at 8 PM and unplug the router by hand. The fight ended in five seconds. The basement trip became a nightly habit. WiFiCurfew is the bedside button that replaces the basement trip.
Reusable quotes
"Every parental-control app loses to a motivated nine-year-old in a weekend. A button on my nightstand does not." Jared Eggett, Founder
"Software was the wrong layer for this. The kid will always have more time than the parent. We made the dumb thing on purpose." Jared Eggett, Founder
"Whole-house WiFi cuts are blunt. That is the feature. The rule is the same for everyone in the house including me." Jared Eggett, Founder
Story angles
Parenting and culture. The decade-long failure of software parental controls, and what comes next when families give up trying to outsmart their kids.
Hardware and design. Why a product with fewer features wins a category where the user is the adversary. The "no app, no subscription, no API" positioning as a design choice, not a corner cut.
Business and startup. Egghead Labs's "one job per product" brand portfolio (OneClickReboot, WiFiCurfew, others coming). Each product is named after the job it does, which doubles as its search query.
Downloadable imagery
Hero · Nightstand
The kit
Button · nightstand
Lifestyle · Bedtime story
Lifestyle · Dinner
Hallway · lights out
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About Egghead Labs
Egghead Labs Inc. is a consumer hardware studio in Lindon, Utah. Founded and operated by Jared Eggett, a 20+ year veteran of product development. The studio's first two consumer products are OneClickReboot (a battery-free button that hard-resets a stuck router) and WiFiCurfew. The energy-harvesting switch hardware is sourced from a long-standing wireless-controls partner.