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HN · launched Jul 21, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 49%) · 1 view
Niche: smart home automation software · 107 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 107 launches in smart home automation software →
Could you build this?
Yes macOS provides CoreMediaIO and AVFoundation notifications for hardware camera/mic usage, which can be wrapped in a simple Swift menu bar daemon that fires home automation webhooks or MQTT messages.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2080 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1045 of 2081 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
- HASSConnect · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Kekoso · hn · 2026-09-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- VoxFlowAir · github · 2026-10-23 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- rec-rs · github · 2026-10-11 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- storymotion · github · 2026-11-02 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Slice · github · 2026-10-16 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- MacViewer · github · 2026-10-17 · 165 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- DaisyCap · github · 2026-11-02 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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