A Mobile Developer Built a Distraction Tracker That Keeps Him Accountable at Work
A context-switching tracker with real-time audio alerts, session controls, and focus metrics. Built and deployed in minutes by a developer who knew what he was losing.
The Problem
Michele's problem affects developers and knowledge workers equally: the workday is full of context switches, and most of them go untracked. You open YouTube to check something, you end up on LinkedIn, and twenty minutes later you're back at your editor with no clear account of where the time went. The cost isn't only the distraction; it's the absence of data on how often it happens.
Michele wanted a tool that counted context switches in real time, alerted him each time he came back from a distracting tab, and gave him an end-of-day picture of how often his focus broke. Not a general productivity app. A lightweight tracker built around his working pattern.
The Build
We took the problem description and turned it into a deployable product in one session. Natural language did the build logic.
The output: the Context Switch Tracker. A browser-based tool that emits an audio alert each time the user navigates back from a distracting tab, with session controls to start, pause, and resume tracking across the workday. CreateOS deployed it to a live URL Michele can share or use privately. For a developer who builds for a living, the reaction was immediate: intuitive, immediately usable, already part of his workday.
“Very intuitive, regardless, very simple the interface and also the immediate use, so I will definitely use it to improve and especially to speed myself up.”
Michele · TAC
Highlights
- Distraction tracker built and deployed in one session, from problem to live URL
- Audio alert fires every time the user switches back from a distracting tab; session start and stop controls
- A mobile-stack developer had a working productivity tool live faster than writing it himself would have taken
- Deployed via CreateOS, available immediately as a shareable URL
Builder profile
Michele is a mobile developer at TAC, responsible for the company's full app development and release cycle. He came to this session not because he couldn't build it himself, but because he wanted to see how fast CreateOS could ship it.
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