SHRIMP CHECK

The surprise posture ping. Random checks on the channels you choose, and the shrimp will follow up if you leave it on read.

Get vertical →

How it works

Step 1

Hand over your channels

Email, browser push, Discord DM, Slack webhooks, Telegram, and more. The shrimp finds you wherever you actually live.

Step 2

Set the envelope

Your hours, your intensity: Chill, Regular, or Drill Sergeant. We control the surprise; you cannot pre-slouch for a check you cannot predict.

Step 3

Answer honestly

“I'm vertical” 🧍 or “caught shrimping” 🦐: both count. Honesty builds your streak, vertical rate, and weekly report card.

Step 4

Get called out

Ignore a check and the shrimp follows up: maybe on a different channel. You left me on read in Discord, so now I am in your email.

Solo or Social

Mode 1

🧘 Solo Play

Set your personal posture schedule envelope, choose your favorite persona voice (Classic, Coach, Drill Sergeant, Roommate, or Eldritch), and receive surprise posture pings across your preferred notification channels.

Mode 2

👥 Friending (Dial-a-Shrimp)

Exchange single-use consent invite links with your friends. Once linked, you can dial a posture check directly at each other whenever you catch a buddy slouching.

Mode 3

🦐 Squads

Form small groups (up to 8 members) with a shared majority quorum streak. Initiate simultaneous group raids where every unmuted squad member gets pinged at once.

A day with the shrimp

[09:00] [email] 🦐 Random posture audit. Nobody saw you fix it, so it never happened. [09:02] you answered: "vertical" 🧍 [10:50] [push] 🦐 Surprise! Shoulders back, chin up, sip of water. [11:10] [email] 🦐 You left me on read. The shrimp does not forget. Posture. Now. [11:25] you answered: "shrimping" 🦐 [23:59] report card: 3/4 acked · vertical rate 33% · streak 1 day

Channels

✉️ Email🔔 Browser push🎮 Discord💼 Slack✈️ Telegram🔗 Webhooks🔔 ntfy.sh📱 SMS (soon)

Why bother?

Your head weighs 10 to 12 pounds upright. Craned toward a screen, the effective load on your cervical spine passes 40 pounds: hello, tech neck. Fixed-interval reminders get tuned out in a week. Surprise does not. That is the whole trick, and it is why streamers have been doing this to each other for years.