Willpower is a buggy mechanism for focus. DustOff is an active OS agent that monitors your "Mental RAM" and physically adapts your environment to prevent burnout.
The HUD floats on your screen, tracking capacity in real-time without interrupting your code.
A single Slack interruption costs 23 minutes of refocus time.
Most tools tell you to "focus harder." That’s like fixing a server crash by running more threads.
We don't track time. We track Capacity—the biological fuel that drives code quality.
You monitor your server load, your API latency, and your memory usage. But you run your most expensive hardware—your brain—with zero telemetry.
Your focus is not infinite. It is a biological battery with a specific discharge rate.
The Mistake: Treating fatigue like a "lack of discipline."
The Reality: Once your bandwidth drops below 30%, your error rate spikes by 40%. Pushing harder here is technically inefficient.
Every context switch is a memory leak.
The Cost: It takes ~23 minutes to re-index your mental context after a single Slack interruption.
The Drain: Erratic mouse movements (anxiety) and rapid tab switching accelerate your battery drain. We measure this "Leak Rate" in real-time.
You cannot run at 100% load indefinitely. You need active recovery to clear the cache.
The Fix: DustOff forces "Micro-Resets"—short, high-quality breaks (breathing, visual rest) that physically regenerate your capacity score.
The Result: Sustainable velocity. No afternoon crash.
THE ALGORITHM
Current Capacity = Baseline - (Load + Leakage) + Regeneration
You can't manage what you don't measure. DustOff floats a minimalist "Pill" on your screen that visualizes your current Cognitive Voltage.
The OS adapts the environment to match your intent.
The "Safe Mode". Perfect for low-energy days or high-level planning.
• Muted Notifications
• Gentle Nudges Only
• No Penalties for breaks
The "Daily Driver". Engineered for consistency.
• 45/15 Rhythm Enforced
• Social Media Firewall
• Parking Lot Active
The "Overclock". For crisis management or elite shipping.
• Total OS Lockdown
• Dead Man's Switch (Idle Detection)
DustOff adapts as your cognitive battery charges, depletes, and recovers. Here's what a protected workday looks like.
The key insight: Most engineers push through fatigue and crash by 4 PM. DustOff detects the signals early and forces recovery before damage accumulates. You end the day with capacity left — not empty.
Standard tools are passive. They watch you fail and send you a report. DustOff is active. It intervenes to protect your capacity.
You know the feeling: mid-flow, a random thought appears — "I should email Sarah about the API." You either interrupt yourself to write it down, or you white-knuckle it and risk losing the thought.
The Parking Lot kills this problem. Hit the hotkey, dump the thought, return to code. Zero context switch. Flow preserved.
Refactor auth middleware after this session
Captured during Legend Mode · 10:23 AMMemory leak in worker pool — check before merge
Captured during Flow Mode · 11:47 AMEmail Sarah about API rate limits
Captured during Legend Mode · 2:15 PMWe measure Cognitive Capacity and System Signals — never content, keystrokes, or screen data.
All telemetry processing (mouse jitter, context velocity) happens on your CPU. We do not stream video, keystrokes, or raw window titles to the cloud.
The only data that leaves your machine is anonymized "Session Stats" (e.g., "User completed 45m Flow"). And only if you opt-in for cross-device sync.
We built on Rust for safety and speed. The agent is open to inspection. We optimize for low latency and zero interference with your dev environment.
This isn't just software access. It is a commitment to a level of discipline.
"I want to understand my capacity and build habits without pressure."
Join Waitlist — Observer"I want structure, protection, and daily consistency."
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Join Waitlist — Founding LegendYou have questions. We have the architecture.
DustOff isn't a VC-backed growth hack. It is a protocol built by two experts to solve their own burnout.
"I built DustOff because I was tired of 'frying my brain' by 2 PM. I wanted a Digital Exoskeleton that would protect my flow state aggressively. I handle the Rust agent, the active defense systems, and the technical privacy architecture."
"Burnout is a system failure, not a personal one. I design the 'Human Protocols'—ensuring that the software respects biological limits, enforces regeneration, and treats your mind as a renewable resource, not a machine."
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