Spending 8 hours coding and your back looks like a boiled shrimp? A dev on Product Hunt just released SuperShrimp, an AI tool that roasts your bad posture.
Sit at your desk for 8 hours coding, and have you ever caught your reflection looking exactly like a boiled shrimp? Recognizing our collective back pain and terrible ergonomics, some mad lad just dropped a posture-checking app that lowkey roasts you. Enter SuperShrimp.
The app's creator, Marc, straight-up admitted his posture was absolute garbage, so he built this tool to fix himself. Dogfooding at its finest.
How it works: It hijacks your Mac's webcam and uses local ai tools to watch you code. If you start slouching like a 🦐, it throws a notification in your face with a live preview of your gremlin posture so you can fix yourself.
Privacy freaks, take a breath. It runs 100% locally and offline. No need to worry about your stream of weird thinking-faces or nose-picking sessions leaking to the cloud.
The absolute best part? Devs are dopamine-starved creatures, so Marc actually added an XP system. Maintaining good posture gives you XP to evolve your virtual shrimp (the dude claims he's currently level 7). Big brain move.
The community is eating it up. Here are the main vibes:
Look, we spend countless hours optimizing our tech stack, debating spaces vs. tabs, and deploying hotfixes at 3 AM. But we completely ignore our most critical hardware: our back. You can reboot a crashed server, but a slipped disc will permanently drop your production to zero.
SuperShrimp is a brilliantly quirky example of using code to solve a real, physical problem you face, instead of building another useless crypto wrapper.
Whether you download the app to level up your shrimp, or just finally invest in a decent ergonomic chair, do yourself a favor: stop sitting like a shrimp, folks. Your future self will thank you.
Source: Product Hunt - SuperShrimp
