I made an app that blurs my screen when I slouch
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HN · launched Jan 24, 2026 · 17 upvotes (top 37%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 171 launches in desktop and display utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight macOS utility that reads the webcam feed using AVFoundation, passes frames to Apple's Vision framework for face/pose detection, and applies a system blur overlay when coordinates shift downward.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: iTerm
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 470 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #173 of 471 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 75 days after the earliest competitor.
- LookBack · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- openbendy · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Tiny macOS app that adds a facecam bubble to screen recordings · hn · 2026-03-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- fold-glass · github · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Nudge · github · 2026-11-12 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Comfyui-Spectrum-Qwen2.1 · github · 2026-09-21 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Shittyscreenshares.com · hn · 2026-10-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- MotionCalm · github · 2026-11-06 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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