HeadsUp
Notice digital absence. Reclaim collective presence.
HeadsUp launched on July 12, 2026 with 5 votes, #4,557 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
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.
A local-first, privacy-respecting Android application built with Jetpack Compose that maps collective digital absence (mindless screen absorption) via screenless hardware gestures to help users reclaim physical presence. - harvatechs/headsup
"Notice: as you see digital absence in others, where does your own presence go?" HeadsUp is a local-first Android application designed to map collective digital attention patterns and assist users in cultivating physical presence. Instead of traditional screen-time trackers that treat digital distraction as an individual failing, HeadsUp reframes it as a collective, atmospheric condition—like fog or pollution—that we generate together. Observers use a hardware-key, screenless logger to register incidents of phone absorption around them. This data is geohashed, stored locally in a Room database, and synced in real-time to a serverless, user-owned Google Sheets backend to construct an ambient…from github.com
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