A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
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Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#2I would pay $10 for this.
Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#3I think the idea is wonderful, but a not-audited application that uses things like the camera is a “no go” for me.
Get it notorized and ask for some money! I will gladly pay it (and I hope others will do it as well).
Awesome concept: ergonomics and/or posture monitoring is a market opportunity for heavy users.
Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#4I think the idea is wonderful, but a not-audited application that uses things like the camera is a “no go” for me. Get it notorized and ask for some money! I will gladly pay it (and I hope others will do it as well). Awesome concept: ergonomics and/or posture monitoring is a market opportunity for heavy users.
It's literally a single .swift file. Ask your LLM to audit it.
Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#5I think the idea is wonderful, but a not-audited application that uses things like the camera is a “no go” for me. Get it notorized and ask for some money! I will gladly pay it (and I hope others will do it as well). Awesome concept: ergonomics and/or posture monitoring is a market opportunity for heavy users.
Are you serious? It's open source. And there's less than 1000 lines total. Get Codex or Claude to review it if you're paranoid.
Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#6Once launched, Posturr runs in the background and displays a brief "Claude Mode Active" notification.
I haven’t checked the code yet, but what does the “Claude Mode” mean? Is it a poor naming choice? It implies that the local app is somehow connected to Claude (?)
Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#7I think the idea is wonderful, but a not-audited application that uses things like the camera is a “no go” for me. Get it notorized and ask for some money! I will gladly pay it (and I hope others will do it as well). Awesome concept: ergonomics and/or posture monitoring is a market opportunity for heavy users.
While I disagree with you, thank you for sharing your decision-making process: you're probably not the only one who thinks this way.
In general, would you pay for a notorised build of free software, if you had use for that software, even if an un-notorised build or the source code were available?
Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#8Once launched, Posturr runs in the background and displays a brief "Claude Mode Active" notification. I haven’t checked the code yet, but what does the “Claude Mode” mean? Is it a poor naming choice? It implies that the local app is somehow connected to Claude (?)
A codebase search for "claude" only has 1 hit in the code (the markdown that you referenced) and 4 commits which include the word in the commit message, or one commit includes .claude/ in the git ignore. See https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atldev%2Fposturr+claude&ty...
Same with a codebase search for "anthropic"
Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#9Why use a proprietary stack for building this when there is a far more capable open ecosystem available at your fingertips?
Re: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
#10Once launched, Posturr runs in the background and displays a brief "Claude Mode Active" notification. I haven’t checked the code yet, but what does the “Claude Mode” mean? Is it a poor naming choice? It implies that the local app is somehow connected to Claude (?)
Hi - this is the author. I can explain that, ha!
Right now I'm using a vision library to detect head height which was good enough. I went down a tangent where I hooked it up to my Claude Code instance to take a screen shot and have Claude Code assess how bad my slouch was. Claude would watch a folder for screen shots, read it in, and if it detected bad posture, write to a file the program was watching to adjust blur.
I did this weird work-around so I could use my Claude Code subscription as opposed to the API.
Anyways, it was too slow and Claude was a bad judge of slouchiness. Head height works well enough!
I'll clean this up.