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Show HN: AI watched my screen for a year. Weather beat sleep

https://donethat.ai/blog/dogfooding-donethat
4•christoph123•1h ago
Hey HN!

I wanted a time tracker accurate enough to be useful and easy enough to not require a new habit while protecting your privacy.

Most trackers (RescueTime etc) only use activity logs and that isn't enough to be very useful. DoneThat uses LLMs to parse your screenshots, which makes it much more accurate but also requires much higher privacy standards, so let's start with those:

- Source-available desktop app (https://github.com/donethatai/donethat-electron) screenshots every few min.

- App exclusions (password managers, personal comms, etc.) are blanked before the screenshot leaves your machine.

- The rest goes to an LLM (BYO possible) for a short text description, and the raw screenshot is discarded immediately.

- That data then gets further processed on GCP (EU) for analyses, sharing, or agentic stuff.

- Sharing is opt-in and only possible at an aggregation level that balances privacy and usefulness. You can also limit to relative data.

- Data flow visualization & more privacy features: https://donethat.ai/data.

- Not fully local. If that's a hard requirement, look at Dayflow or Screenpipe (just changed their licensing). I made a list of tools in this space here: https://donethat.ai/compare.

Currently working on a proactive Clippy-like coach because it's the highest-requested feature (mostly from self-identifying ADHD folk). Surprisingly hard to make this actually useful and not just gimmicky or annoying.

Give it a try: https://donethat.ai

Comments

pixel_popping•54m ago
It's really a great project, however I feel that most people are actually not that "ready" to get judged objectively about their own behavior, most people shield themselves from it.
christoph123•49m ago
Thanks! I think part of it is unrealistic expectations for what's normal. When you read everywhere 9/9/6 is the way to go you don't want to face your "low productivity". My brain stops working after 7 hours and I get headaches if I work weekends. I hope that by putting out more data like this we can move the expectations to healthier norms again.

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