Cue

Strong signal

Put your AirPods in, your Mac starts focusing

Launched 22h ago

Signal

Velocity

What this means

1.7×Growing 1.7× faster than the typical Productivity launch.

Compared to 3 Productivity launches at the same age.

Low discussion activity despite the attention.

Audience is voting but not engaging — could signal weak product-market fit.

17Founder Conviction Index: 17 — low signal.

Few of the conviction sub-signals (reputation, velocity, buyer-intent, tagline clarity) are firing yet.

Prediction

Top-5 finish probability

29%

today

Projected end-of-day votes

121range 91–163

Trajectory

stable

Vote pace holding steady.

Speed vs peers

1.7×

3 Productivity launches

About

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.

AI Summary

Cue is a macOS app that activates Focus mode and blocks distracting websites when AirPods are inserted, while providing session history and media controls in the menu bar. It is compatible with Apple Silicon and requires macOS 14 or later.

Attention & discussion velocity

Performance

Velocity0

Vote pace vs average

Momentum6

Sustained over 6h

Virality0

Spread × engagement

Engagement7

Discussion per unit of attention

Editorial read

Scored deterministically. Only candidates that fire a story trigger are sent to a model, so this one has no written angle.

ThinLittle evidence and no strong angle. Nothing to build on yet.

105/8

Timeliness5%100

carried 7%

Novelty15%33

carried 20%

Trend20%31

carried 27%

Business15%4

carried 20%

Story20%0

carried 27%

Not measured · 3 of 8

Revenue10%—

Founder10%—

Cross-platform5%—

Gaps in our data, not findings about the product. Their weight is redistributed across the 5 we did measure.

measuredmeasured, zeronot measured

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Signal sources

3 of 6 active

Launch tracking4 readings since we picked it up
AI analysisProductivity
Comment intelligencethread not yet analysed
Outside discussionnot checked — domain is a storefront or shared
Revenue signalsno match on this domain
Editorial scoring13% evidence coverage

A source that found nothing is a measurement. A source that has not run is a gap. Neither means the launch lacks the thing.

Cue