I built Greendot over the weekend

Remote work has a funny little trust problem: the green dot. Somewhere along the way, this tiny status indicator became a proxy for work. Green means available. Yellow means suspicious. Grey means dead. But work is not always typing. Sometimes it is reading a pull request, thinking through a messy problem, or walking around the room because staring at the screen is not helping. Slack does not know that. Teams does not know that. They just see no movement and quietly mark you as away. So I built Greendot, a tiny macOS menu bar app that moves your cursor by two pixels, then moves it back. That is the whole trick. No account. No dashboard. No productivity score. No AI summary of your fake focus time. Just a small app that says: “I am still here. I am just thinking.” There are already mouse jigglers, but most of them are too dumb. They wiggle while you are on a call, move while you are presenting, or keep you green at 11 PM, which somehow looks more suspicious than being away. Greendot is…