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Oxide

Capture notes and screenshots without it showing on screen

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Oxide is a lightweight, open-source desktop tool written in Rust for taking notes and screenshots without interrupting your flow. It stays out of the way (invisible when you need it to be), launches fast, and uses minimal memory. - Quick notes, always one shortcut away - Instant screenshots - Invisible mode that stays out of sight - Native Rust performance, small footprint - Open source: contribute on GitHub

PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 216 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • User Experience
  • Notes
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes A small desktop note and screenshot utility. The main platform-specific piece is excluding windows from screen capture, which is a documented OS API that an AI assistant can help wire up in Rust.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 248 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #115 of 249 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 372 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Logpane · ph · 2026-11-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Capso · ph · 2026-04-11 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • CaptureOCR｜Offline OCR Screenshot Tool · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Easyshot · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Socorin · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Look Launcher · ph · 2026-10-20 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • ZaneShot · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Opaline for Mac · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43

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