Big Brother: AI watches you work
An AI to watch you...and obliterate any distractions
Details
- External ID
- 1254093
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Big Brother: AI watches you work
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9378608082103913
- Tags
- Productivity, Task Management, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- media discovery and streaming tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai productivity tracker to eliminate distractions
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 57 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- I was burnt out and failing so I built AI that give shit about me · hn · 2026-01-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Created an AI for myself to achieve goals, it might help you guys too · hn · 2026-01-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Don't Lock My PC · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Hourtick · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- TaskMind AI · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Human Edge · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Sitdown Instead of Stand Ups · hn · 2026-01-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Routine AI · ph · 2026-07-21 · 203 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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- No other launches for this product.
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