I'm building a tool to bypass activity tracker + screenshot and safely go idle
I have experienced time tracker myself, and as a dev, this is very stupid especially if they use the activity rate as basis for your performance. Unang una most of our work (lalo na ngayon with coding agents) involves reading and checking if things are right, this means a huge part of our day involves not moving anything to focus on analysis and reviews. Additionally, this method punishes fast worker. If you can finish a 4 hour work in 1 hour, then you're being punished for the next 3 hours and there's literally zero reason to be fast.
That's why I decided to create this tool.
How it works:
- The tool is a combination of a hardware and a software (to be run on a separate computer)
- This means your work PC will never know something is going on as there's no software running to bypass it, and there's a hardware connected classified as a keyboard
- The software has an algorithm that you can "program" (it's just defining how your work is done), and it picks one of the potential work based on your config's chance. It then triggers the necessary keystrokes para maperform yung task na yun
- The hardware will ingest these instructions then "types" it out like a real keyboard
Other cool features:
- All keypress has random millisecond variation kapag "pinepress" eto, meaning it's never uniform
- Harder key combinations are slower to "type". For example mas madaling i-press ang "tp" kesa sa "cz" dahil sa location neto sa QWERTY keyboard. Same with ALT + F4, or CTRL + SHIFT + ESC
- Random pauses on space and dots. So may chance to "think" on sentence endings, like a human would
- Hourly break-time (configurable) to appear like you're taking a CR break, making a cup of coffee, or stretching. Very human.
- Typo mechanism. Configurable rin ang chance neto, so it once triggered it can do two types of typo: 1. type our the wrong letter, then delete, then retype the correct one 2. or finish the whole word, "realize" it's wrong, deletes until the wrong letter and retype. It also has 50% chance to commit mistake again on the same word, and another 20% chance to commit a 3rd typo. Very human design.
Attached below is a screenshot from a demo hubstaff account. I fixed the breakless work and sustained high focus time using the hourly break-time mechanism. Can't do anything on the predominantly keyboard usage, but on an actual use, I'm sure you'll use mouse to do your real work naman, so that will probably not get triggered.
Things it can do:
- Scroll around a document using up and down arrow key OR page up and page down
- Alt tab between windows
- Open anything using windows key + program name
- "Retype" an entire document (you'll put it in the app's files) and pretend you're doing it from scratch. It can also have multiple files, so once it's done with one, i-dedelete n'ya using CTRL + A + Backspace, then type a new real work document
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If you're interested in this, PM me, it's not free of course. But I assure you, as an OE too, the ability to get a second job will far surpass the value.