sideOS.ai
Local AI for dictation, meetings, background tasks and more
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sideOS lives in your Mac’s notch. Hold Control + Option, say what you want, let go! It reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types and tells you when it’s done. Run it fully offline local models or use your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Grok key.
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 83 upvotes (top 2%)
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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Partial The notch UI, voice input, and API wrappers are buildable, but reliable screen-reading and clicking across arbitrary apps and running good local models are hard to get right.
What it would actually take: A native macOS app in Swift/SwiftUI would use the Accessibility and ScreenCaptureKit APIs for screen reading and control, with speech-to-text (on-device Whisper or Apple's speech APIs) and a provider-abstraction layer for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Grok. The hard parts are making computer-use actions reliable across apps and shipping local model inference that runs acceptably on consumer Macs. That requires macOS systems expertise, model-optimization experience, and extensive testing and signing/notarization work.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #23 of 362 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
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