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Show HN: macOS app to reduce eye strain (open-source)
my first app, a Mac menu bar utility to remind you to blink more. any feedback would be much appreciated. or make it your own and share :)
- MichaelTheGeek 2y agoGood idea.
- pcdoodle 2y agoVery cool idea. This would also be kind of cool to have a timer that would remind you to look at something in the distance every 5 to 10 minutes to keep your focus range exercise while using computer.
- Remy42 2y agoThanks for the feedback. I am working on this feature!
- thisislife2 2y ago1. Good move to protect yourself as a developer and making the app easily available outside the App Store. 2. Consider supporting older macOS versions. 3. Have a look at https://workrave.org/ https://workrave.org/ and https://www.dejal.com/timeout/ https://www.dejal.com/timeout/ for additional feature consideration (competition research). (Tip: Workrave is better, even if TimeOut looks nicer - focus more on that).
- Remy42 2y agowow thank you for all the feedback, appreciate you!! I’m on it
- cududa 2y agoReally neat -- going to poke around with this!
- pimlottc 2y agoIs this based on any existing research? I would think your body already blinks enough as needed to keep your eyes from drying out.
- thisislife2 2y agoNot OP, but apparently apart from reduced blinking (when watching a screen), there is also something called as incomplete blinking happening ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31152804/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31152804/ ). More here - https://theconversation.com/screen-time-can-seriously-harm-your-eyes-heres-how-to-avoid-it-222468 https://theconversation.com/screen-time-can-seriously-harm-y... .
- MelodyUwU 2y agomacos sonoma is a very high requirement...
- Remy42 2y agoI used SwiftUI :/
- MelodyUwU 2y agothe official apple documentation [0] claims it is available to all macos systems 10.15 upwards, though [0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui
- Remy42 2y agoI added a new .dmg for Ventura+ install. Let me know how it goes. You can also clone and build yourself if you'd like
- MelodyUwU 2y agoah no, i cant actually do that, my osx is 10.6 snow leopard, would be hard to do it :) either way supporting as many versions of macos as possible is always good riddance
- opan 2y agoI don't see a LICENSE file. Do you intend to choose a license? https://choosealicense.com/ https://choosealicense.com/
- Remy42 2y agojust added. this my first app. thanks for the feedback!