Hi,
Some companies judge you by output. Others judge you by how hard you appear to be working. I'm built for the first kind — I'd rather ship the right thing in two hours than the wrong thing in eight.
The trouble is that "how hard you appear to be working" gets distilled, eventually, into the color of a little circle next to your name in Slack. And the people who do their best thinking in the time between the typing — the walks around the block, the page of paper notes, the ten minutes of staring at the ceiling — are exactly the people whose dots go yellow first.
I'm not going to type more or click more, and I'm not buying a clumsy mouse jiggler that twitches through my Zoom calls. So I built a quieter one. Greendot does the smallest possible thing — two pixels, then back — only when you've genuinely been idle. It shuts up on calls. It clocks out at night. No account, no telemetry, no dock icon. A 1.2 MB binary and a tiny menu.
Work smarter. Let Greendot handle the looking-harder part.
— Peter
built Greendot · still in the menu bar