Assist
Invisible assistant, that lives in your MacBook’s notch
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Details
- External ID
- 1274407
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Assist
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 70
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.97
- Tags
- Productivity, Meetings, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
Description
A personal, secure meeting assistant that lives in your MacBook's notch. Listens to your meeting · suggests what to say · invisible on screen share · can run 100% on your Mac
Enrichment
- Niche
- MacBook notch utilities and widgets
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop ai assistant residing in macbook notch
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While an Electron or AppKit notch overlay is easy, real-time local audio loopback capture, low-latency streaming speech-to-text, and stealth screen-share exclusion require native macOS engineering.
What it would actually take: Built with Swift and AppKit utilizing macOS ScreenCaptureKit or CoreAudio HAL taps for internal audio capture without virtual devices, alongside non-sharing window properties (`NSWindowSharingNone`) to evade screen share capture. Audio must be fed into an optimized local inference engine (such as Whisper.cpp via Metal Performance Shaders) running concurrent with an on-device SLM or low-latency streaming LLM.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 142 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 143 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
- Mom · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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- Notch Plus · ph · 2026-09-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Isly · ph · 2026-10-10 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Nibbii · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- NotchMate · ph · 2026-10-04 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Kishi Notch · ph · 2026-10-06 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- NotchBuddy · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51