Hey HN, I built Depressbot – a sarcastic AI "screen watcher" that monitors your work habits and guilt-trips you into touching grass.
It sits in the background, watches how long you've been glued to your screen, and delivers increasingly unhinged roasts until you actually step away. Think of it as a passive-aggressive wellness coach with the emotional range of a lobster (which is also the mascot, naturally).
I built it with Claude Code over a weekend. The idea came from running an AI automation startup (Geome) where our whole philosophy is: have your computer do work for you so you can spend more time in nature. Felt hypocritical that I was spending 14-hour days staring at a screen building software that's supposed to free people from screens. So I made a bot to call me out on it.
A few things it does: tracks active screen time, delivers tiered sarcasm (gentle nudge → concerned friend → full existential crisis mode), and logs your "outdoor breaks" so you can see how badly you're failing at being a human.
It's dumb, it's mean, and it actually works. I've been averaging 2 more outdoor breaks per day since I started using it.
Would love feedback. What would make you actually listen to a bot telling you to go outside?