Lennert Soffers

I'm Lennert Soffers, a Belgian full-stack software developer with a focus on building practical solutions to real-world problems. After struggling with nail-biting for over 22 years, I founded Hands Off, an AI-powered desktop app that detects hand-to-face movements in real-time and interrupts unconscious habits like nail-biting and skin-picking before they happen. The app runs completely locally with full privacy protection, helping users become aware of behaviors they don't even realize they're doing. I built Hands Off because I was genuinely tired of catching myself doing it again, and traditional methods never worked for me. Now I'm helping others break free from these surprisingly common unconscious habits through technology that provides the real-time awareness we actually need.<...