Shadow
The interface AI needs. One that sees, hears, and runs.
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Shadow is the AI interface for your Mac. It sees your screen, hears your voice, and runs the prompts you build — on a keyboard shortcut, or in your meetings. 🪄 Skills do the work. Quick Reply drafts emails from what you say and what’s on screen. Voice Typing turns talking into clean text, anywhere. Meeting Skills capture every word and screen, then deliver notes and follow-ups the moment you hang up. Build your own — every Skill is a prompt, a context, and an output.
PH · launched May 18, 2026 · 218 upvotes (top 61%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop ai assistants · 275 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -15% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Writing
- Meetings
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Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping audio transcription and vision models into prompts is standard, continuous background audio loopback capture, active window visual tracking, and meeting detection on macOS require specialized native APIs.
What it would actually take: The app needs a native Swift macOS client leveraging ScreenCaptureKit for selective application window capture and CoreAudio / virtual audio loopback drivers (or AVAudioEngine hooks) to capture both mic and system output without echo. Processing requires a robust local or streamed STT pipeline (e.g., Whisper/Deepgram) with speaker diarization before passing context into LLM agent skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 345 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #201 of 346 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 188 days after the earliest competitor.
- Echo · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Silent Shadow Assistant · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- CircleAssist · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Focusel · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OneSecure Shadow AI Guardian · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- What should the GUI for AI agents look like? · hn · 2026-07-31 · 139 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PIP · ph · 2026-09-28 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Wink AI · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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