A desktop app that blocks work when you bite your nails
Details
- External ID
- 46759850
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A desktop app that blocks work when you bite your nails
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6212121212121212
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Saw this repo: https://github.com/tldev/posturr and wanted to share my solution to avoid nail biting :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- habit and daily routine trackers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- productivity blocker for nail-biting habit
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an Electron or native wrapper leveraging standard webcam ML models (e.g., MediaPipe Hands or face mesh) to detect hand-to-mouth proximity and trigger a screen block.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Habit substitution (nail biting to lip biting) may not address root cause, Interconnected nature of body-focused repetitive behaviors
Competitors
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Attention rank: #45 of 91 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 84 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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