Host a Mom's Watching room
Friends of Screate Labs · Host playbook
Mom's Watching is a new ritual from Screate Labs, built on our latest experiment, Have You Eaten? It's a co-working room where one AI Asian mom nags everyone at once. You host it. You own it. You don't need us.
Every 30 minutes she yells at the whole room: drink water, sit up, rest your eyes. At lunch and dinner she asks the question: ăn cơm chưa? Khana khaya? 吃饭了吗？ People laugh, get back to work, and actually eat.
The one rule: run Have You Eaten? on screen for the whole session, and say its name out loud at least once. Your room, your crowd, your vibe.
Pick your room
Two rooms, same rules. Builders is the weekly default. Cram opens in exam season.
| Room | For | Length | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Builders room | Founders, freelancers, anyone with something to ship | 4 hours, leave anytime after 90 min | Every week |
| Cram room | Students | 4 to 10 hours, drop in and out | Exam season |
Both rooms: camera on, so we know who's in the room. Mics muted. Everyone works on their own thing. Mom is the only voice.
Want a 2-hour Sunday sprint instead? Run it. Just keep Mom on screen.
Set up in five minutes
- Make an event on Luma. Name it “Mom's Watching: <your room>” and add a Google Meet, Zoom or YouTube Live link.
- On the laptop you'll share, open
screate.co/have-you-eaten/?room=<yourname>&mom=<lang>. Room mode hides everything but Mom and a QR code. - Pick her language with
mom=:viVietnamese,hiHindi,hgHinglish,taTamil,bnBengali,paPunjabi,mrMarathi,zhMandarin,yueCantonese,nanHokkien,sgSinglish. Or leave it off and choose on screen. - Share your screen with audio on. If people can't hear her, it's not a room.
- Press Start. She takes it from there.
The QR sends people to their own Mom on their phone, tagged to your room. Drag it anywhere; double-click to shrink it.
Run of show
You don't run the clock. Mom does.
| When | What happens | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | You press Start. | One line, then mute: “Mom's watching. Cameras on, mics off. Scan the QR to get her on your phone for the rest of the week.” |
| Every 30 min | She nags: water, sit up, rest your eyes, stand up. | Do it on camera. Everyone copies you. |
| Anyone eats | Nothing stops. | Camera off, stay in the call. Don't break the screen. |
| 12:00 | Ăn cơm chưa? | Lunch. Go eat. |
| 18:00 | Ăn cơm chưa? | Done for the day. End the room, go eat dinner. |
Press Start on the hour and she asks at 12:00 and 18:00 on the clock of the laptop you share. Hosting across time zones? Say whose lunch it is. In Meet, turn on “mute everyone on join” before you start.
Make content
The best clip is the first time she yells and everyone jumps. Be ready for it.
- The jump. Film the room, not the screen, the second she yells. 5 to 8 seconds.
- The roll call. Screenshot the camera grid when she yells. Everyone mid-sip.
- The plate. At the meal nag, everyone holds their food up to the camera.
- The time-lapse. One phone on a tripod, the whole session, sped up to 15 seconds.
- The before and after. Your to-do list at 0:00 and at the end.
Going live on YouTube? Put the room link in the first line of the description and keep Mom's audio loud. Lo-fi under her, never over her.
Tag @screate.co and use #MomsWatching. That's how we find your clip and share it.
What hosts get
- On the calendar. Submit your room to the Friends of Screate Labs calendar. It reaches 1,000+ people in 11 cities.
- On our feed. The best #MomsWatching clips each week get reposted on @screate.co with your handle.
- Membership on us. Hosts who keep their room going become contributors. Membership is on us, and you hear news first.
Ready? Email hi@screate.co with your room name and date. Hosting a walk instead? Read the CWC Culture Playbook.