Productivitazer ⚡️

H̶e̶l̶p̶i̶n̶g̶ Forcing you to break your bad habits

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👀 Inspiration

I was watching a young chinese boy scroll YouTube Shorts today. I noticed this horrible #habit of his, and in an effort to #help, I #slapped him across his face. This was the beginning #of #our #intense iteration processs to land on Productivitazer.

💀 What it does

Productivitazer sends an electrical shock to the user whenever they go on a website they are trying to stop using. Not only does Productivitazer stop the website from opening and loading, it also provides that pain for the brain to recognize that that app has got to go away. bars.

🚀 How we built it

We built it with WXT, Vite, React, Tailwind, and some other things, yo. We even used hardware, like 5 9 volt batteries, and arduino, bluetooth receiver.

😭 Challenges we ran into

"DUDE WHY IS IT NOT WORKING?! IT LITERALLY WON'T LET ME CONNECT TO BLUE TOOTH FROM THIS STUPID WEB THING! ARGHHHHHHHH" - Daniel.

We faced challenges in connecting to Bluetooth successfully to deliver the shock wirelessly. We also couldn't find a capacitor, which was very important for the functionality of Productivitazer. We ran around to like 5 different walmarts, nofrills, dollaramas, cyber stores, phone repair, and convenience and none of them had capacitors.

🙏 Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of getting the Bluetooth working. At the time of writing, we haven't yet, but I'm sure we will in the next 8 hours.

We listened to about 5 hours of Santo & Johnny.

Somebody knocked on our door to wake us up probably like 5 times.

❌ What we learned

We learned not only about how to connect to Bluetooth, but also more important skills that transfer everywhere; we learned the importance of preparation. We originally did not prepare our materials correctly, and so we had to go around Guelph trying to buy different components, wasting a lot of time and creating unnecessary stress.

⚡️ What's next for Productivitazer

We hope to get into big retailers like www.mrbeast.store

Built With

  • 5-9-volt-batteries
  • allan-joe-george
  • arduino
  • chinese
  • curry-king-straight-from-mumbai
  • english
  • flowboat
  • fortnight
  • french
  • le-fang
  • le-xing
  • mongolian-exchange-student
  • nonhazardous-chemicals
  • react
  • serial
  • skull-emoji
  • spanish
  • thankyoumoulikfordrivinghereandbringinguscapacitorsat1am
  • theres-always-next-year
  • wxt
  • youcantsleephere
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Updates

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I went to GDSCHacks this May. It was a great hackathon overall, except for one thing: they had a no-sleeping policy, for some reason. It was really strange. None of the organizers were involved, but there were some very insufferable UofG faculty that went around waking people up. Yeah, pretty strange, I know.

Anyway, after being woken up a few times, my friends and I got fed up. We were like “man we tired of this, yo!”. So we decided that the next time one of them came by to wake us up again, we’d try to talk them out of it. We’d be super serious and diplomatic. Straight Ben Shapiro on these people to stop them from waking us up.

We spent a few minutes deciding what to say. It had to be calm and collected, beautifully articulated, and we had to sound at least a little bit awake.

After a few minutes, another faculty came by, to check if anyone was asleep. We cleared our throats and got ready to deliver the most diplomatic, down to earth, wholesome answer possible.

The guy says, “anyone sleeping in here?”

My friend, after sleeping -5 hours, forgets the whole script and says “we’re not sleeping, we’re just mewing intently.”

“That’s not a sleeping bag you’re seeing, it’s a mewing pod.”

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