I Built a Focus-Scoring Browser Using Camera AI, Claude, and MediaPipe
Social media and content were already saturated. Then AI arrived and multiplied the volume of information and parallel tasks by orders of magnitude. In this world, I wanted to bring the value of fo...

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Social media and content were already saturated. Then AI arrived and multiplied the volume of information and parallel tasks by orders of magnitude. In this world, I wanted to bring the value of focus I learned from meditation practice into a tool anyone could use — a browser that watches how you browse the web and shows you, in real time, how focused you are. That's Gaze Browser — a mobile browser that scores your concentration from 0 to 100 using your front camera and AI face analysis. The Problem I Wanted to Solve We check our phones dozens of times a day. We open a browser to look something up, get distracted by a notification, click a link, and 20 minutes later we've forgotten what we originally searched for. I wanted to build something that gently reminds you: "Hey, are you still focused?" — not by blocking content, but by reflecting your own behavior back at you. How It Works Gaze Browser uses Google MediaPipe FaceLandmarker to detect 478 facial landmark points in real time via