Hate Yourself: Productivity through Guilt

Inspiration

People (especially students) often get distracted while trying to do work by websites like Facebook, Reddit, Netflix, etc. We wanted to build something that negatively reinforces visiting those pages.

What it does

Hate Yourself limits the amount of time you can spend on certain websites, and will send you demeaning messages if you stay on them for a while. This causes severe guilt and will make users want to do their work! In extreme cases, electric shock may be employed to physically harm the user.

How we built it

We wrote Hate Yourself as a Google Chrome extension and used an Arduino (and a battery and a bunch of capacitors) to deliver the shock.

Challenges we ran into

Getting enough voltage to actually make the shock hurt! Also centering divs.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Figuring out how to center divs.

What we learned

How to center divs.

What's next for Hate Yourself: Productivity through Guilt

Make the shock aspect work!

Built With

• arduino
• chrome
• css
• html
• javascript