SecAIQ Watch for Mac
A local security monitor for the AI tools on your Mac
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SecAIQ Watch shows which AI tools run on your Mac, what files and permissions they can reach, which MCP servers they use and where their traffic goes. Read-only, 100% local, no account. 14-day free trial, then $19.99/year.
PH · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views
Niche: ai compliance and risk monitoring software · 129 launches, 11 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Privacy
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and reporting are straightforward, but reliably monitoring file access, permissions, network traffic and MCP servers on macOS requires system-level security APIs that vibe coding alone won't produce.
What it would actually take: The UI and inventory views (installed AI tools, MCP config parsing, permission summaries) are vibe-codeable in Swift. Real-time visibility into file access and outbound traffic needs Apple's Endpoint Security framework and/or a Network Extension, which require Apple entitlements and notarization. Building it well takes macOS internals, security engineering and privacy-focused design.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 246 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #49 of 247 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 229 days after the earliest competitor.
- Watchflows · ph · 2026-11-09 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- WhoIsCooking · ph · 2026-10-26 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Keysi · ph · 2026-10-14 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Dial • Time Tracker · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ChosenRank · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Switchy · ph · 2026-11-07 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- MacMetric · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- SecQon · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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