Cue
Put your AirPods in, your Mac starts focusing
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Details
- External ID
- 1273350
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cue
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 160
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.99
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
Description
Your headphones become a focus switch. Put your AirPods in and your Mac turns on your Focus mode, blocks distracting sites and starts a timer in the notch. Take them out: break time, sites come back. Also in the notch: now playing, volume and brightness, your own colors, session history and two tiny buddies that react to everything. Free, private, macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon. Vibe-coded by one person and Claude.
Enrichment
- Niche
- MacBook notch utilities and widgets
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- focus mode trigger for mac and airpods users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No It requires native macOS development to listen to Bluetooth device connection states, manipulate private macOS Focus state APIs, manage network/host filtering for site blocking, and draw custom UI overlays directly over the MacBook notch.
What it would actually take: Requires Swift and macOS system frameworks including CoreBluetooth and IOBluetooth to monitor specific AirPods insertion states, along with System Extensions or local packet filter (pf) rules to handle system-wide website blocking. Manipulating macOS Focus modes requires scripting private distributed notifications or Shortcuts integration, while notch rendering requires low-level AppKit window manipulation (NSWindow levels and CGDirectDisplay). Managing system permissions, battery efficiency, and cross-hardware compatibility requires dedicated native macOS engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 583 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2 of 584 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
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