Atticus
Hold a key, talk, and your Mac does what you asked
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Hold a shortcut, say what you want, let go. Atticus opens apps, shops for you, fills out forms and answers questions about what's on your screen. It asks before it buys or sends anything. Simple asks run instantly with no AI, and the rest run on your own Claude plan. Free and open source.
PH · launched Oct 15, 2026 · 76 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop ai assistants · 265 launches, 19 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial A hotkey voice assistant with a Mac UI is buildable, but reliably controlling apps, filling forms, and reading the screen requires native macOS accessibility and computer-use work that is hard to get right through vibe coding alone.
What it would actually take: The app would be a native Swift/SwiftUI menu-bar app using global hotkeys, speech-to-text, macOS Accessibility and ScreenCaptureKit APIs, and an LLM agent loop with a confirmation step before purchases or sends. The difficult parts are robust UI automation across arbitrary apps and permission handling, plus safe action gating. This needs experienced macOS and agent-systems engineers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 259 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 260 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 239 days after the earliest competitor.
- Atticus · hn · 2026-10-12 · 115 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- atticus-mac · github · 2026-10-10 · 155 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Tagara · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Super Shortcuts · ph · 2026-10-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Moe · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Knock · ph · 2026-10-26 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Knock · ph · 2026-03-16 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Memoe · ph · 2026-10-21 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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