u/Calm_Assignment_3038

So a bit of background first. I am a developer and like most of us here I used to sit for very long hours in front of the screen. At some point I realized I was doing three things wrong without even noticing.

My posture was bad, slouching for hours without realizing it, and my back started hurting.

I would forget to blink. Sounds weird but it is true, when you are focused on a problem your blink rate drops a lot and your eyes start feeling dry and tired. Most people blame blue light or the screen itself but from what I read and felt, it is mainly the dryness caused by not blinking enough, not the screen.

I would forget to drink water for hours at a stretch.

Around 2 years back I decided to fix this for myself so I built SitBlinkSip. It uses computer vision through your webcam to track your posture and your blink rate, and also gives you reminders to drink water on a set interval.

Sit part watches your posture and tells you when you are slouching.

Blink part tracks how often you blink and reminds you if you have not blinked in a while (default around 60 seconds).

Sip part just reminds you to drink water periodically.

I used it myself for a while and it genuinely helped, mostly by just making me aware of these habits in the moment. But it has been sitting as a private repo doing nothing for 2 years. Recently I thought instead of just keeping it to myself, I should open it up so other people can use it, break it, improve it, or just tell me what they think about the idea itself.

It runs with Docker so it is fairly easy to try out, frontend is Next.js and backend is FastAPI with a computer vision model doing the detection part.

Genuinely curious to hear from this community, is this something you would actually use, do you face the same issues, and what would you add or change.

GitHub: https://github.com/ishworrsubedii/SitBlinkSip