Devamine

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DEVAMINE — Professional Developer Productivity Suite™

Work smarter, not harder. Or don't work at all and just look like you do."

Inspiration

We've all been there. It's 2pm on a Tuesday, your contribution graph is a desert, your manager is walking over, and your screen is showing a YouTube Short about a dog learning to parallel park.

DEVAMINE was born from a simple question: what if the tools we use to look productive were actually more impressive than being productive?

We didn't find an answer. We built a dashboard instead.

What It Does

DEVAMINE is a full-stack developer productivity theater platform with five core modules:

  • Commit Factory** — Generates statistically realistic GitHub commits with believable messages, fake diffs, and proper Dirichlet-Multinomial scheduling so your contribution graph never has a suspicious gap. Messages include classics like fx: it works on my machine — shipped my machine nd tst: tests passing (deleted the failing ones).

  • Meeting Lab** — Schedules fake meetings directly into your real Google Calendar. Pre-loaded with 12 enterprise-grade templates including "etrospective on the Retrospective Format" nd "ross-Functional Strategic Alignment Synergy Session".Generates Zoom links. Sends invites to eeryone@company.com.

  • Boss Mode** — Computer vision motion detection via your webcam. When someone walks behind you, it instantly switches your screen to Cursor. Powered by OpenCV background subtraction with configurable sensitivity and cooldown.

  • Cover Story** — Six developer personas (10x Dev, Principal Architect, DevRel, etc.) with matching Slack status presets and a fake terminal that types out convincing git commands in real time.

  • Doomscroll** — Opens YouTube Shorts. Tracks how many videos you've watched and brain cells lost. Has a "Reset Stats (lie to yourself)" button.

How We Built It

  • Backend:** Python 3, stdlib htp.server no dependencies = no excuses), Google Calendar API via gogle-api-python-client Computer vision:** OpenCV BckgroundSubtractorMOG2 or motion detection, oascript or macOS app switching
  • Frontend:** Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, zero frameworks, maximum vibes. GitHub dark theme. Animated contribution graph. Confetti on commit.
  • Commit engine:** NumPy Dirichlet-Multinomial model for realistic burst scheduling weighted by weekday and hour-of-day distributions
  • Calendar integration:** OAuth 2.0 Desktop App flow, cached token, full read/write Calendar scope

Challenges We Ran Into

  • cOS uses port 5000 for AirPlay and port 8080 for something else. We are now on port 7777.
  • e Google OAuth token cached at ~.larpmax_gcal_token.pickle idn't have write scope. We deleted it and started a new one at ~.devamine_gcal_token.pickle.
  • thons not a command on macOS.pthon3` s. This affected 100% of our team.
  • uTube cannot be embedded in an iframe. We opened a new tab. Problem solved.

Accomplishments We're Proud Of

  • e commit graph looks genuinely indistinguishable from a real developer's
  • ss Mode has a sub-200ms response time from motion detection to app switch
  • e meeting template "uick Sync (30 min max, I promise)" efaults to 1-hour duration
  • got Google Calendar integration working and it does in fact add real meetings to your real calendar
  • ro actual features were shipped during the development of this tool

What We Learned

  • richlet distributions with concentration < 1 produce overdispersed, bursty patterns that look exactly like how real developers commit
  • enCV background subtraction is surprisingly good at detecting someone creeping up behind you
  • eryone@company.com` s almost always a valid email
  • e gap between "looking productive" and "being productive" is exactly one hackathon weekend

What's Next

  • bile app so you can fake commits from your phone
  • -generated PR descriptions that sound deeply technical
  • tegration with Jira to auto-move tickets to "In Progress" and back to "To Do" on a schedule
  • eep Work" mode that plays lo-fi music and blocks Slack (does not block YouTube)
  • tual productivity features (unlikely)

Built With

pthon oencvgogle-calendar-api hmlcs jvascriptnmpy oascriptvbes

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