Hey everyone! 👋 I'm an 18-year-old student and solo developer.
Like many of you, I struggle with procrastination. I've tried dozens of Pomodoro timers, but they all have the same fatal flaw: they only track time, not actual focus. You can stare at a wall for 25 minutes, and the app will still congratulate you.
That felt broken. So, I spent the last few months designing and building Aurora — a desktop Pomodoro app that uses AI to verify if you were actually working and actively kills your selected running processes on your device.
When you start a focus block in Aurora, you tell it what you are studying (e.g., "Web App Architecture" or "Photosynthesis").
When the timer rings, instead of just taking a break, Aurora uses the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite API to generate a quick, personalized quiz about your topic. You only earn XP and level up if you can prove you actually learned something. It turns studying into a game where you can't cheat the system.
