In Meeting
A native macOS Mic/Cam observer for home automation
Details
- External ID
- 48995487
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- In Meeting
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.505973715651135
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- macos mic and camera observer for home automation
- Manually corrected
- False
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
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 831 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #423 of 832 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 263 days after the earliest competitor.
- HASSConnect · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Kekoso · hn · 2026-09-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- BetterCapture · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Kipless · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Wokyintosh · github · 2026-09-09 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Safari MCP · hn · 2026-04-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- jev-mac-voice · github · 2026-09-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ha-zepp · github · 2026-09-21 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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