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Show HN: Realwork – Proof of work for the AI era

https://www.realwork.app/
1•Anuranjan_Vikas•2h ago
Today, AI can generate anything from text, art, code to even music. The output is often indistinguishable from human work. And the people getting hurt aren't just consumers of slop, it's creators who now have to prove they didn't use AI.

Writers avoid em dashes because they "look AI." Artists get accused before they're appreciated. Students get flagged by inaccurate detectors.

Realwork is a macOS app that records your creative process: keystrokes, pauses, revisions, the messy parts and generates cryptographic proof that your work was shaped over time, not generated in seconds.

Think of it like a digital witness. You get a shareable proof page showing the timeline of how something was made. No surveillance, no productivity tracking, just receipts when you need them.

Tech: Native Swift/SwiftUI, ScreenCaptureKit for recording, Vision Framework OCR, blockchain-style session blocks with SHA256 hashing + Secure Enclave signatures.

I wrote the manifesto with Realwork running: Manifesto: https://www.realwork.app/manifesto Proof: https://www.realwork.app/anuranjanvikas31/launch-blog

Would love feedback on the concept, the UX, or whether this even matters to you. What would make you actually use something like this?

Comments

lerp-io•1h ago
ironically, this could maybe sell for ai training.
vitaelabitur•1h ago
I am struggling to understand the need for this. If AI output is indistinguishable, that could mean -

1. It is as good as human output. For this to happen with the current state of AI, a human still needs to be an expert to guide and review. In this case, I don't think it hurts anyone to use AI.

2. It is worse than human output but the humans consuming it don't know any better. The AI reproduces successful patterns to produce books, paintings, music, films, instead of producing novel ideas/concepts that add to society. This is a deeper problem, and humans in pop culture have been doing it for years without AI. And besides art, bad outputs like vulnerable code or inaccurate text get detected naturally sooner or later.

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