Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load
Details
- External ID
- 46592376
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 84
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8801054018445322
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- entertainment from javascript loading
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a humorous, single-purpose web app or terminal animation visualizing simulated JavaScript bundle loading.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Sound machines
Concerns raised: Loading screens activate sympathetic nervous system, opposite of sleep requirements, Induces adrenaline and arousal instead of relaxation, Can trigger anger/frustration with slow loaders, Psychologically misaligned with sleep onset mechanisms, Jerky CSS transitions detract from experience
Feature requests: Make background fully black for dark room use, Add fullscreen button to hide all UI elements, Remove next button, advance on touch instead, Slower word appearance timing, Remove unnecessary JavaScript/service worker
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 111 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 55 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built a zero-latency developer tool suite in pure Vanilla JavaScript · hn · 2026-07-23 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Gatling Studio · hn · 2025-11-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive) · hn · 2026-04-27 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Kipless · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Insomnia-Modern1 · github · 2026-09-22 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- sleep-not-allowed · github · 2026-09-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Insomnia-Modern · github · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video · hn · 2026-03-04 · 115 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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