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Big Brother: AI watches you work

An AI to watch you...and obliterate any distractions

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Youtube is useful...but also distracting I used to have to block it to get any work done With Big Brother I don't need to...he just watches everything I do. All. of. the. time. But at least I can go be productive in unproductive places If he spots me drifting he will either nudge me....or nuke my tab depending on how strict I've set him. Now with Big Brother my computer is only used for work. I am...so happy now...so productive Anyways. If you too, want to be happy and productive get Big Brother

PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views

Niche: distraction and screen time blockers · 257 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • Task Management
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • OpenAI Day

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Could you build this?

Partial Building a macOS native monitor that captures screen video/OCR in real time, interprets workflow intent continuously via AI, and programmatically intervenes requires deep macOS system APIs and high-frequency vision inference.

What it would actually take: The application requires a native macOS app (Swift/Objective-C) utilizing ScreenCaptureKit, Accessibility APIs, and AppleScript to monitor active windows, running processes, and browser tabs. Periodic frame captures must be preprocessed locally (e.g., via Apple Vision framework OCR) or batched to a vision-language model to determine distraction levels, paired with OS-level hooks to close tabs or lock focus. The technical hurdle lies in smooth real-time background screen processing without excessive battery drain, alongside navigating strict macOS privacy and accessibility permissions.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 100 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #18 of 101 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.

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