Slouching in front of a computer all day isn’t great for your body and over time can lead to lots of issues. SitApp monitors your posture in real time and reminds you to sit up straight when you start to slouch.
Hey Product Hunters!
As a person who uses a computer all day for work, I eventually realised that my poor seated posture was contributing to my chronic back pain issues. Despite my best efforts to consciously correct my posture, I would always somehow slip back to the hunched slouch I was accustomed to.
I created SitApp to solve that problem, and also to have a go with a few technologies I was interested in.
It's currently free to download and use. I just hope some people will find it useful, and help them to fix their bad backs!
There's already a million things I would like to do to improve it, but getting this out there is a big milestone for me 😅 . In future I'd like to team up with some other people to help further improve the design, UX and well, every aspect of it! If you're interested in teaming up to help take it to the next level, please get in touch.
@ali_sitapp Congratulations on the launch!
SitApp seems to be addressing the need-gap in 'Remind me to take break when working from home' posted on my problem validation platform - https://needgap.com/problems/130... .
You're welcomed to explain how SitApp solves their problem so those who need it can find it easily.
@mahadeepray Thanks for your comment! 😀 Yes the webcam aspect is always going to be a bit tricky for people with security concerns. I plan in future versions to have an option where the webcam only turns on for 1 second every, say, 30 seconds, which would at least minimise the intrusiveness.
I think with any app that uses your webcam, whether it's Zoom, Teams or something a little more subtle like this - people need to feel like they trust that their webcam feed is not going to be abused. SitApp doesn't store/transfer any of the images coming from the webcam, so hopefully it's possible to communicate that fact to people. But I agree, there will always be a proportion of people who will simply not want to have their webcam used in this manner.
Hey Enoch thanks for your interest. I've been meaning to get round to this for a loooong time, and now I own an M2 mac myself, so I don't have any excuses left 😄. Will keep you posted if I can get it to work.
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