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CaughtShipping
The app that snitches when you code past bedtime
You keep promising yourself a 9 PM cutoff. CaughtShipping holds you to it, publicly. Set a Curfew and a tiny desktop app watches your work apps. Leave Cursor open past cutoff, and you get 5 minutes of grace (or none, if you're brave); then your fall lands on the public Blotter: streak reset, timestamp, roast. Keep your word and climb the Wall of Rest. Two emergency overrides a month for real life. It only ever sees app names, never your code. Free on macOS and Windows.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Mihai, and I built CaughtShipping because I kept telling myself "one more commit" at 11 PM and believing it.
The idea is simple: you set a Curfew. A tiny desktop app watches your work apps (Cursor, VS Code, terminal, Slack, etc.). Leave one open past cutoff, you get 5 minutes of grace, then your fall goes on the public Blotter with a timestamp and a roast 🔥 Your streak resets. Keep your word, and you climb the Wall of Rest instead.
It never blocks anything. No force-quit, no screen lock. It just tells on you. Turns out that's enough.
🔒 Privacy: it only ever sees app names and timing. Never window titles, file names, URLs, keystrokes, or screenshots. Your code stays yours.
This is a relaunch. Since the first version shipped, a lot has changed:
🪟 Windows support (macOS 12+ and Windows 10/11, both auto-update)
🎨 Full redesign, light by default with a proper night mode
🆘 Two emergency overrides and four pause nights a month, because real life happens
📊 A new Reports window
💳 Rested ($7/mo or $60/yr): all-day per-app tracking, weekly Rest Report Card, a README badge, and one automatic pardon a month for that first slip
Getting caught is free and stays free. Rested just adds the receipts.
I'd love to hear two things from you:
1. What time is your cutoff supposed to be, and what time is it actually?
2. Which app do you want watched that we don't cover yet?
I'll be here all day answering questions. Probably past my own curfew, which the Blotter will confirm 😅
About CaughtShipping on Product Hunt
“The app that snitches when you code past bedtime”
CaughtShipping was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #101 on the daily leaderboard. You keep promising yourself a 9 PM cutoff. CaughtShipping holds you to it, publicly. Set a Curfew and a tiny desktop app watches your work apps. Leave Cursor open past cutoff, and you get 5 minutes of grace (or none, if you're brave); then your fall lands on the public Blotter: streak reset, timestamp, roast. Keep your word and climb the Wall of Rest. Two emergency overrides a month for real life. It only ever sees app names, never your code. Free on macOS and Windows.
On the analytics side, CaughtShipping competes within Productivity and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how CaughtShipping performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted CaughtShipping?
CaughtShipping was hunted by Mihai Joldis. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of CaughtShipping including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Mihai Joldis