Image: reddit.com · Video still: I built Popwatch - your personal popcorn popping pal
Popwatch, a phone web page that listens for popcorn to finish
Claude Opus 5 built a mobile web page that listens through the microphone, detects popcorn pops and says when the gaps mean the bag is done.
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- Reddit poster dr_hamilton Source ↗
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The full story
The maker had long wanted software to say when to stop microwave popcorn, since instructions usually say to wait until there are 3 to 4 seconds between pops. They gave Claude Opus 5 one prompt: a mobile website that uses the phone's microphone, analyses the audio in real time to detect pops, and estimates when the bag is finished, with the gap configurable.
After about five rounds of small adjustments and features it was done, in under an hour in total. It is free to use and the code is on GitHub.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built Popwatch - your personal popcorn popping palReddit poster: dr_hamiltonPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: I built Popwatch - your personal popcorn popping pal (opens in a new tab)
- The project: olkham.github.io
Linked in the post.