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SplashMonitor

First native macOS desktop app and menu bar monitor for Inco AI's Splash local inference engine on Apple Silicon

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GITHUB · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 48%) · 3 views

Niche: llm inference and deployment tools · 188 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • apple-silicon
  • inference
  • llama
  • machine-learning
  • macos
  • splash
  • +2 more

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Could you build this?

Yes Building a macOS menu bar monitor that queries a local inference engine API and displays status metrics is easily built using Swift/SwiftUI or Electron.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 3426 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1660 of 3427 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.

  • splash · github · 2026-09-18 · 610 upvotes · similarity 0.76
  • Vehla · hn · 2026-09-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • systemANE · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • coachwhip · github · 2026-10-01 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Context-Aware AI Assistant for macOS [Open Source] · hn · 2026-01-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • swimore.ai · github · 2026-10-12 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • coreglass · github · 2026-10-02 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • kapitsa · github · 2026-10-16 · 155 upvotes · similarity 0.60

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