Inspiration

Common problems like eye-strain, back-pain and dehydration impacts our life on a daily basis. In a longer run, it negatively affects your health. There’s little to no awareness among budding developers regarding the importance of health and the negative effects of our coding lifestyles.

It’s a problem we’ve personally faced and realized. So we decided to tackle this problem.

What it does

The solution integrates directly into code editors (only VS Code for now). we’ve built a dead simple vs code extension that intelligently reminds you to take regular breaks, correct your posture and drink water to stay hydrated.

How we built it

We used Javascript and vs code extension API to build this.

Challenges we ran into

This is the first time we've build a vs code extension. It was pretty fun.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We've built a working demo of the solution in a matter of hours, and the best thing is we can start using it in our development workflow right away.

What we learned

We learned how to build a vs code extension. And how little things like eye strain impacts our everyday life.

What's next for Healthy Dev

The solution has a lot of future scope.

  • Tracking user patterns to learn the user's coding stamina and productivity
  • suggesting breaks according to user's coding patterns
  • Better reminders

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