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omaface

omaFace: face unlock for Omarchy. IR camera for the lock screen, login, sudo and system prompts, with an eyes-open check and ask-first; webcam fallback for the lock screen.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 22 upvotes (top 54%) · 0 views

Niche: screen privacy and sharing utilities · 52 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Security
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • arch-linux
  • face-recognition
  • face-unlock
  • hyprland
  • linux
  • omarchy
  • +2 more

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Could you build this?

Partial The PAM hooks, lock-screen integration, and the eyes-open and ask-first flow are vibe-codeable glue. Reliable face recognition with anti-spoofing on IR hardware, plus secure authentication behavior, requires computer vision and security expertise.

What it would actually take: The stack is Linux PAM modules, an IR camera capture pipeline (V4L2), and an open-source face embedding model such as ArcFace run locally with an onnx runtime. The hard parts are liveness and anti-spoofing checks and tuning false accept and reject rates, so a security-minded CV engineer should review it before it guards sudo or login.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 102 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #52 of 103 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 210 days after the earliest competitor.

  • omarchy-yubikey · github · 2026-11-03 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • omarchy-ring-light-plugin · github · 2026-09-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • FaceMac · github · 2026-09-17 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • MacID · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • omalogi · github · 2026-09-29 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • omacvm · github · 2026-10-01 · 116 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • omarchy-iphone-mirror · github · 2026-09-19 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • omacale · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.42

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