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HeadsUp
Notice digital absence. Reclaim collective presence.
Unlike traditional screen-trackers, Heads Up is a reflective, screenless app that maps collective digital distraction. Instead of tracking your screen, you log observed phone absorption around you using a simple tap or volume-key gesture, acting as a sensory micro-meditation. These anonymous observations populate a live, aggregated ambient map of shared attention. Built privacy-first with a zero-cost architecture, it helps us notice our own habits by seeing the patterns we create together.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I’m the creator of HeadsUp.
Most screen-time trackers treat digital distraction as an individual failure. With HeadsUp, I wanted to reframe it as a collective, atmospheric condition like fog or smog that we generate together.
To break the cycle of checking your own phone, HeadsUp has no interactive screen logger. Instead, you hold the phone by your side and click the volume buttons to register when you notice screen absorption around you. It functions as a physical micro-meditation, returning you immediately to your own surroundings.
I would love to get your thoughts on the mapping philosophy, the screenless gesture mechanism, or the Kotlin architecture! 🙏
love the angle here. quick question though, how do you keep people from gaming the system if there's zero cost and no accountability tied to an account?
curious how the live map handles location precision, does it just show city-level trends or can you zoom into specific neighborhoods and venues?
Noticed my bus ride differently after one evening of logging glances. The whole "observe, don't track" framing actually made me put my own phone down more than expected.
About HeadsUp on Product Hunt
“Notice digital absence. Reclaim collective presence.”
HeadsUp was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #99 on the daily leaderboard. Unlike traditional screen-trackers, Heads Up is a reflective, screenless app that maps collective digital distraction. Instead of tracking your screen, you log observed phone absorption around you using a simple tap or volume-key gesture, acting as a sensory micro-meditation. These anonymous observations populate a live, aggregated ambient map of shared attention. Built privacy-first with a zero-cost architecture, it helps us notice our own habits by seeing the patterns we create together.
HeadsUp was featured in Android (57.4k followers), Productivity (656.3k followers), Open Source (68.6k followers), Meditation (12.7k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 230.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted HeadsUp?
HeadsUp was hunted by Harsha Vardhan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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