XAnnotate
Free screen recording as prompts for coding agents
Details
- External ID
- 1253043
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- XAnnotate
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Design Tools, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
Description
Record your screen, point and speak, and hand it off to AI. Video prompts for Cursor, Claude, and Codex — local-only and free.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- screen recorder for generating coding agent prompts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The desktop recording UI is straightforward, but synchronizing frame-level screen capture, audio transcription (Whisper), cursor/annotation telemetry, and packaging it into a standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) server involves non-trivial systems programming.
What it would actually take: The core application is built with Swift (macOS ScreenCaptureKit) or Electron/Rust with native bindings to capture screen video, audio, and drawing overlays simultaneously. It runs a local Whisper model for speech-to-text, aligns timestamped audio with specific frame crops or mouse clicks, and exposes this metadata over an MCP server interface for tools like Claude Code and Cursor. The hard part is low-overhead native screen and audio capture combined with local multi-modal packaging under strict local privacy constraints.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 210 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 211 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
- ScreenCast Studio · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ScreenRec · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Screen Recorder by Mamonov · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Recordwow · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Snowfairy AI OS Pen · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ScreenCursor · ph · 2026-09-13 · 195 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ClipCast · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Capture Studio · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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