Cortex · Readiness for your mind
Readiness for your mind: on-device focus coach for Mac
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Your watch knows if your body is ready. Cortex knows if your mind is, and protects it. Voice, eyes, screen and body, measured privately on your Mac.
PH · launched Oct 15, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: mindfulness and wellness apps · 230 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▲ +8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Partial The Mac app shell and UI are vibe-codeable, but the core value depends on turning voice, eye, screen, and body signals into a trustworthy readiness score, which needs signal processing and validated models.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a native macOS app (Swift) with access to camera, microphone, and activity signals, plus on-device ML for gaze, voice, and fatigue estimation. The hard part is building and validating the readiness/focus model, which requires labeled data and some cognitive-science or sensor-science expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 388 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #238 of 389 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 216 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Winq · ph · 2026-11-06 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ThermPort · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- LookAway 2 · ph · 2026-04-08 · 281 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Auralo · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- DropDrop: HabitTracker & Todo 1.2.3 · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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