StopIt!

Inspiration

I have seen people around me, including myself, fall prey to minor negative behaviors because we think it's not a big problem. In reality, the effects compound, and your reinforcement continues to overpower your efforts to overcome it. One personal bad habit that I picked up was pulling my mustache, which is essentially very similar to biting your nails. Back When I used to live with my family I would always find my sister biting her nails and it somewhat disgusted me. Funny enough, a few years later, I started playing with and pulling my mustache and it continued to get worse. Now it is wasting so much of my time and I couldn't find any way to overcome it other than building this app

What it does

Empower users to be more mindful of their actions by having their laptop camera monitor them and alert them when they commit a bad habit/addiction they have configured in the web app.

How I built it

With the motivation of helping myself. Saving me around 30 minutes every day. I also believe it's a pain point in other people's lives as well. Used convex as a backend to store user's data and to enable the ability to have friends to expose your bad habits to. Implemented several 'Actions' that I used for several external APIs that I used like cohere, Elevenlabs, and resend. I also found the process very smooth with adding an auth system with Convex Auth. I'm a big fan of tRPC so I'm glad y'all took inspiration from them and made Convex also end-to-end type-safe.

Challenges I ran into

Convex's way of doing things. Nothing can beat a stack you've already worked with before. Especially if you want speed.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Unfortunately, I worked solo but managed to get into the flow, got a lot done, and enjoyed myself in that process.

What I learned

Image Recognition in the Web Convex backend The value of having teammates in hackathons. Makes it a whole another experience compared to hacking solo.

What's next for StopIt!

You can follow other people who you trust them in knowing your bad habits A team of habit breakers who put some money in. Whoever loses will have to give out the money among the other breakers Gamifying