HeadOrbit
Your AirPods know where you're looking. macOS menu bar app: look-away blur and posture reminder from AirPods head tracking.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 13, 2026 · 41 upvotes (top 21%) · 1 view
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes The project is a lightweight macOS menu bar app leveraging Apple's standard CoreMotion API (CMHeadphoneMotionManager) to measure head orientation and trigger a screen overlay in Swift.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 652 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #189 of 653 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.
- LookBack · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- AirVeil · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- AirPoise · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Veil · ph · 2026-09-24 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Cue · ph · 2026-10-10 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Avert · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- AirCursor · github · 2026-11-04 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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