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💤 Fake Focus

The ultimate productivity tool — for looking productive.


🚀 What is this?

Fake Focus is a revolutionary command-line application designed to help developers
maintain maximum focus (or at least the illusion of it).

It continuously performs extremely important background operations like:

  • Initializing neural cores
  • Optimizing dependencies
  • Synchronizing data pipelines
  • Debugging the universe
  • Asking ChatGPT for help

All while making sure your computer — and your colleagues — believe you’re hard at work.


🧠 Why use Fake Focus?

Because sometimes, being active is more important than being productive.
Fake Focus keeps your system alive, your Slack status green, and your conscience quiet.

Perfect for:

  • Long “thinking sessions” 🧘‍♂️
  • Coffee breaks that accidentally last 2 hours ☕
  • Remote work days when “deep focus” means Netflix
  • Those times when your boss says “why are you offline?” 😬

⚙️ Features

✅ Simulates fake background tasks (looks very technical)
✅ Detects real user activity via mouse & keyboard
✅ Automatically “presses” keys when you go idle
✅ Shows fancy spinning progress indicators (instant credibility)
✅ 0 actual productivity gained — 100% appearance maintained


💾 Installation (Just use uv and run it as a tool)

uvx fake-focus

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