Lumen
AI that Lives On your Desktop.
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Lumen is a desktop AI assistant for Windows and macOS. Press Ctrl+Space, drag a box over anything on screen, and Lumen reads it and answers - solving problems, explaining code, and summarizing documents and PDFs. Ask advanced AI models anything, anytime.
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PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Menu Bar Apps
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Yes A desktop overlay that captures a screen region, sends it to a vision-capable LLM API, and shows the answer is achievable with Electron or Tauri plus a hotkey library and existing model APIs.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #79 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 343 days after the earliest competitor.
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