I run a vision model on every screenshot, locally, on a 4GB GPU
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HN · launched Jun 13, 2026 · 36 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: computer vision software and models · 225 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 225 launches in computer vision software and models →
Could you build this?
Yes A background script that captures the desktop screen on an interval and sends frames to a lightweight local vision model via Ollama or Hugging Face is readily vibe-codeable in a weekend.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Rewind app, Microsoft Recall
Concerns raised: Cloud-based versions caused backlash over privacy, Data being uploaded to servers where companies can monitor user activity, Small language models (gemma-e4b) too limited for text generation
Feature requests: Open-ended image generation capability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1305 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #246 of 1306 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 224 days after the earliest competitor.
- openfield · github · 2026-10-28 · 125 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- A 6M-token movable window on a single 46GB GPU · hn · 2026-07-28 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- localmesh-engine · github · 2026-09-10 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- nsight-perf-sdk-for-ai · github · 2026-11-03 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU · hn · 2026-08-04 · 139 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- NovaField · github · 2026-10-30 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- code-map · github · 2026-09-17 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- stratum · github · 2026-09-18 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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