Saiful Islam Adar
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I've wanted a really minimal focus timer for a long time. One screen, calm, no clutter. So I finally built it: Aura. You pick a mood and the whole screen turns into a soft glow that breathes with the sound while you work.
How it came together:
- I designed it in Stitch. I just described what was in my head and it drew it for me. I kept nudging it with prompts and clicks until it felt right (I even ripped out a soundscape picker partway through, and turned an early "orb" into a soft breathing gradient), then exported the code.
- Then I used Claude Code to make it actually feel alive. A custom audio-reactive shader so the gradient moves with the sound, plus little milestones that save your focus hours on your device.
- Pick a mood (Calm, Flow, Energized, Dream) and the whole screen re-tints. It does one thing and it does it nicely. Honestly it's become the timer I actually use.
Try it: https://aura-focus-2026.web.app
(https://aura-focus-2026.web.app)Stitch really surprised me with how fast it went from a sentence to a real, consistent design. New screens just picked up the style without me re-explaining anything, and the in-place editing is the magic.
A few small things:
- Sometimes an edit made a new screen instead of changing the one I'd selected
- I wish I could've kept the custom shader and audio inside Stitch instead of exporting. But it carried the whole design part for me.
- There's a bug in the prototype, for some reason it was showing me wrong layouts
Credits:
Pixabay for royalty free musics
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