LazyBonsai: A Digital Bonsai That Grows Only When You Stop Working

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LazyBonsai is an anti-productivity app built as a digital bonsai garden that grows only while the user remains still. The tree gains buds after five minutes of stillness, full bloom at fifteen minutes, and a gold aura at thirty minutes, with frantic mouse movement merely pausing the clock. A local AI companion, the Slow AI Sloth, offers poetic reflections, helps users defer urgent-seeming worries, and hosts slow conversations. The app runs entirely on the user's own machine with no accounts, analytics, or API keys, and its ambient soundscape is synthesized live in the browser. It was created for the Slow and Steady challenge, in the spirit of International Sloth Day.

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