ShadowDesk — Your private browser
A private browser workspace for screen sharing
Details
- External ID
- 1244541
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ShadowDesk — Your private browser
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
Description
ShadowDesk is a private desktop browser for focused work during live screen sharing. It stay completely invisible.
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted investment portfolio trackers
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- private browser for screen sharing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Excluding a specific browser window from operating system-level screen capture APIs requires low-level OS hooks, custom display window flags (like WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE on Windows), or native C++/Chromium embedding.
What it would actually take: To build an invisible desktop browser, one must create a custom Electron or Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) shell interacting with OS-specific window management APIs (such as SetWindowDisplayAffinity with WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE on Windows and NSWindow sharingType on macOS). It demands deep knowledge of native OS windowing subsystems and desktop graphics pipelines to ensure screen recorders and WebRTC streams consistently ignore the window.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 42 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 43 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 239 days after the earliest competitor.
- Shadow Link · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Veil for Mac · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Leodesk · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- VeilSend · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- sonicdesk · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- ShadowSelf · ph · 2026-09-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- LinuxDesk — Linux Server Manager · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Focus Shield · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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