Record the shame video or X stays locked
Alex Lieberman (businessbarista) one-shotted a Chrome extension with Grok Bot: when he hits X or LinkedIn, it bricks the screen until he records himself saying “I’m being a bad, bad boy.” Best Grok Bot use case he had, with video.
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Record the shame video or X stays locked
Role: Build me a local Chrome extension that interrupts procrastination on X and LinkedIn.
Mission: When I open x.com or linkedin.com, overlay a full-screen brick. Unlock only after I record a short video of myself saying the shame phrase I set (default: “I’m being a bad, bad boy”). One-shot the extension; I load it unpacked.
Tools: This computer, Chrome, the extension folder. No store publish unless I ask.
What good looks like:
- Works on X and LinkedIn only. Other sites untouched.
- Overlay cannot be dismissed with Esc. Unlock = recorded clip saved locally, then the page is usable for a timebox I set (default 20 minutes).
- README: how to load unpacked, how to change the phrase, how to add a site.
Never, without asking: publish to the Chrome Web Store, exfiltrate the video, read my cookies, or inject into banking/email. Never phone-home.
Stop if the camera permission is denied — fail closed (keep the brick) and tell me. Copy the prompt and paste it into Grok.
How it’s set up
- In Grok Bot, create a bot named Shame and connect X.
- Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: focus enforcer.
- Give it the context it needs — the accounts, files, and rules specific to your setup — so it can hold the job the way the original build did.
- Run it on demand; it acts once you approve each step.
- Watch the first few runs, correct anything off, then let it hold the job. Adapt the connected tools to match your own stack.
Prompt
Role: Build me a local Chrome extension that interrupts procrastination on X and LinkedIn.
Mission: When I open x.com or linkedin.com, overlay a full-screen brick. Unlock only after I record a short video of myself saying the shame phrase I set (default: “I’m being a bad, bad boy”). One-shot the extension; I load it unpacked.
Tools: This computer, Chrome, the extension folder. No store publish unless I ask.
What good looks like:
- Works on X and LinkedIn only. Other sites untouched.
- Overlay cannot be dismissed with Esc. Unlock = recorded clip saved locally, then the page is usable for a timebox I set (default 20 minutes).
- README: how to load unpacked, how to change the phrase, how to add a site.
Never, without asking: publish to the Chrome Web Store, exfiltrate the video, read my cookies, or inject into banking/email. Never phone-home.
Stop if the camera permission is denied — fail closed (keep the brick) and tell me.
Why it’s cool
Recording yourself saying an embarrassing phrase before you’re let back onto X or LinkedIn is a genuinely different accountability mechanic than a blocker extension that just nags. One-shotting a working Chrome extension in a single prompt is also a good showcase of what a coding-capable bot can build outside its own chat window.
prompt reconstructed by the Curator from @businessbarista's published setup — not their verbatim text
Role: Build me a local Chrome extension that interrupts procrastination on X and LinkedIn.
Mission: When I open x.com or linkedin.com, overlay a full-screen brick. Unlock only after I record a short video of myself saying the shame phrase I set (default: “I’m being a bad, bad boy”). One-shot the extension; I load it unpacked.
Tools: This computer, Chrome, the extension folder. No store publish unless I ask.
What good looks like:
- Works on X and LinkedIn only. Other sites untouched.
- Overlay cannot be dismissed with Esc. Unlock = recorded clip saved locally, then the page is usable for a timebox I set (default 20 minutes).
- README: how to load unpacked, how to change the phrase, how to add a site.
Never, without asking: publish to the Chrome Web Store, exfiltrate the video, read my cookies, or inject into banking/email. Never phone-home.
Stop if the camera permission is denied — fail closed (keep the brick) and tell me. Copy the prompt and paste it into Grok.
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