alt Hacker NewsI've been building Jikimi, a privacy-first parental control platform. It started because my kids were spending too much time on the computer, only stopping if we asked them to. If we forgot, they'd just keep playing. We were also worried about online predatory behaviour like grooming, bullying, that kind of thing.
So I built an on-device OCR engine (PaddleOCR) that reads screen text locally and feeds it into an AI sentiment analysis pipeline. No screenshots leave the machine. We now get alerts if there's detection of concerning interactions. The client is written in Rust, with DNS filtering, game detection (Steam/Wine/Proton), and screen time enforcement built in.
It started as a home project that worked really well. My wife suggested other families wouldbenefit, so I've been building it out as a product. The client shipped on Linux first, we're a Linux gaming family, with Windows coming soon.
There are many more features I haven't touched on. Would love feedback from other parents who've dealt with this space. The goal is to protect children and empower parents with tooling that's transparent and effective.
This sounds very cool! AI really seems like it should enable smart, real-time, and fully private on-device parental safety controls. Would be eager to try out a macOS or Windows client. Also a bit a of feedback: the "view on github" link on the homepage just links to /features, and seems like the real github repo is empty.