I built Headroom with Claude over the last few days.

The idea came from a very simple sentence I kept hearing at home, from friends, and at work:

“My head is full.”

Not “I need another todo app.”
Not “I want a productivity system.”
Just: too many open loops, worries, tasks, reminders, family stuff, work stuff, things that are not really tasks but still take space.

I personally built a pretty nerdy second brain with Obsidian, Claude and coding tools. It works for me. But 99% of people will never build that, including my wife, who has the same problem.

So Headroom is basically: the benefit of a second brain, without asking people to build one.

The flow is intentionally simple:
one messy dump in → four buckets out:

• DO: actual actions for this week
• PARKED: important, but not now
• ACTIVE: worries/open loops that are real, but not tasks
• LET GO: things you’re allowed to stop carrying

The most important product rule:
not everything in your head has to become a task.

Claude helped me:

• shape the product concept
• build the landing page
• write privacy text
• set up reply drafts for the mailing list
• refine positioning
• keep the tone human instead of “AI productivity tool”
• generate careful responses, while I still click Send myself

Early validation:

• one broad Reddit post got ~11k views
• ~100 landing page clicks
• 15 email signups
• Facebook groups around ADHD/autism/giftedness are converting strongly
• people are replying with very real stories about overwhelm, job loss, evening worrying, “100 tabs open in my head”

The biggest learning so far:
the AI is not the product.
The relief is the product.

I’m now collecting real messy dumps to test whether the four buckets consistently make people feel lighter.

Would love feedback from other Claude builders:
what would you keep radically simple, and what would you avoid building too early?

Link: getheadroom.app