I made an app that blurs my screen when I slouch
Details
- External ID
- 46747571
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made an app that blurs my screen when I slouch
- Website domain
- tomjohnell.com
- Launched
- Jan. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6324110671936759
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- screen blur reminder for posture
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 231 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #84 of 232 (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
- Tiny macOS app that adds a facecam bubble to screen recordings · hn · 2026-03-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- openbendy · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- fold-glass · github · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- App that shows your screen-free hours every time you look at your phone · hn · 2026-06-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Comfyui-Spectrum-Qwen2.1 · github · 2026-09-21 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.