Heads Up
Heads Up is a macOS menu bar app that tracks user focus during video meetings in real-time, displaying status as heads up, away, or idle based on app-switching behavior. It syncs with calendars to detect Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams links, matches individual browser tabs, and auto-ends sessions when the meeting app is closed. The app generates post-session summaries with focus percentage, away time, keystroke counts, and team leaderboards for multiplayer accountability.
- Enterprise Software
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Remote and hybrid meetings make it easy to drift into unrelated apps or multitask silently, reducing individual accountability and team presence. Without real-time visibility into when someone has stepped away or shifted focus, meetings lose engagement and productivity declines.
Solution
Heads Up provides a macOS menu bar app that tracks focus during meetings in real-time, displaying a user's status as heads up, away, or idle as they switch between applications. The app syncs with the user's calendar to automatically detect Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams meeting links, then pre-selects approved apps for each session. Browser tabs are matched individually, so only the meeting tab counts as focused rather than the entire browser. When a user closes the meeting app or leaves the Meet tab, Heads Up auto-ends the session and generates a detailed summary with focus percentage, away time, keystroke counts, and longest streak, plus team leaderboards for multiplayer accountability.
Target Audience
The primary users are individual professionals and distributed teams who regularly attend video meetings and want to improve personal focus and mutual accountability during remote work sessions.
Features
- Real-time status updates (heads up, away, idle) driven by app-switching behavior with second-level granularity
- Calendar integration that auto-detects Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams links and pre-selects approved apps for each meeting
- Individual browser tab matching that distinguishes the meeting tab from other open tabs in the same browser
- Automatic session end detection when the user leaves the meeting app or closes the meeting tab
- Post-session analytics with focus percentage, away time, app usage breakdown, keystroke counts, and longest focus streak
- Team leaderboards that compare focus statistics across users to support group accountability