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I stare at screens 10+ hours a day and ignore every break reminder I've tried. A notification pops up, I dismiss it on reflex, eyes hurt by evening. So I built Peeka. A small ghost lives on your desktop and gets visibly sleepier the longer you look at the screen. Every 20 minutes it pulls a dim blanket over your screens, covers its eyes and counts to 20 while you look at something far away (the 20-20-20 rule). Then it pops out: boo. The bet: people skip timers, but they might not skip a character they like. Some things from building it: - Native Swift, about 2 MB. The ghost runs on spring physics so it squashes and wobbles instead of playing canned animations. - It waits until you stop typing, hides when your camera or mic is on, and pauses when you're away. Getting "don't be annoying" right took longer than the animation. - Worst bug: it froze at 141% CPU because its own closed menu was redrawing 60 times a second. - Licensing is a signed key checked offline, so the app has no account and makes no network calls. - I built it with Claude doing most of the typing. The code was the fast part; deciding how it should feel took most of the week. It's a one-time $14.99 (launch price), Mac only: meetpeeka.com What I'd love feedback on: 1. Does the landing page make you want to try it, or is something unclear? 2. Is $14.99 one-time right for this, or would you expect a free trial first? 3. Would a character like this charm you or annoy you after a week?   submitted by   /u/sameed_a [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/29 22:36:00