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Your Mac speaks up when Claude Code or Codex needs you
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Heads-up speaks a short line on your Mac when Claude Code or Codex finishes a task or needs your review, input or approval. It stays quiet on a call, in Focus or away from home. 20 alerts in 7 voices, no key needed. Free and open source, by Brand Bakery.
PH · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: developer productivity and workflow management · 146 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu-bar or background app that watches for Claude Code or Codex events and speaks short alerts can be built with Swift, macOS speech APIs, and focus or call detection. It is a small, well-scoped app.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 624 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #203 of 625 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 350 days after the earliest competitor.
- Speechy · ph · 2026-10-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Lunavect · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Lidnight · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Vigil Companion · ph · 2026-10-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Cyan Voice for Claude Code · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Heard · ph · 2026-07-25 · 310 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Takes for Mac · ph · 2026-10-13 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Kenko · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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