Hodor
a 701KB native macOS prompt launcher for AI tools
Details
- External ID
- 48296678
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hodor
- Website domain
- hodor.design
- Launched
- May 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5516962843295639
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hodor is a tiny macOS app that launches saved AI prompts into any text field — from the screen edge, keyboard shortcut, or keyword such as ;git.I work with different AI tools every day, and had prompts scattered across Raycast snippets, Apple Notes, and Notion — notes that kept getting longer and unmanageable. Raycast snippets are useful, but cumbersome to browse and edit. I wanted one local place to save and review them, and one click to paste them into whatever AI tool I'm using. The test I set was whether I could actually stop using Raycast snippets for this. I think I fulfilled my goal. Hodor has been my daily tool for 3 months now.The app is 701 KB — SwiftUI + SwiftData, no web views. Zero network requests anywhere in the code: no analytics, no telemetry, no update checks. You can verify - search the source for URLSession, it's not in code.Runs on macOS 15+, with native Liquid Glass on macOS 26+. Free and open source.GitHub: https://github.com/woody-design/hodorLet me know if you have any suggestions — I'd love to hear how you solved the scattered-prompts problem.
Enrichment
- Theme
- lightweight and on-device AI runtimes
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- native macos prompt launcher for ai
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building a lightweight native macOS menu bar/hotkey prompt manager using standard Swift/AppKit APIs and accessibility paste commands is a classic weekend vibe-coding project.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: CLI unsuitable for rich text input, prompt disappears on incorrect keypress, Unclear where to store prompts created by agent during coding
Feature requests: Input content via software interface then copy/paste to CLI without saving as prompt, Review and modify prompts before applying to workflow
Competitors
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Attention rank: #7 of 11 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 106 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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