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Hoy for Mac

Walkie-talkie meets AirDrop meets Messages

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Hoy puts your people in your Mac's menu bar, on top of everything you do. Drop a file on a face. Hold to talk, and Hoy writes it down as you speak. Show your screen. Hand over a to-do. Every face is a channel, with one person or a group, and a link is all it takes to bring someone in. No sign-up, no middleman: your channels live in your own iCloud and there is no Hoy server. Free, with a pay-once Pro. Needs macOS 26. iPhone and iPad are coming soon.

PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 102 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views

Niche: team and live chat software · 81 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +14% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Communication
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • Messaging
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Partial The menu-bar UI, file drop, screen-share trigger, and link-based channels are standard macOS app work a solo builder can vibe-code. Real-time voice with low latency, reliable screen sharing across networks, and live transcription need real-time infrastructure that vibe coding alone won't deliver.

What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/SwiftUI menu-bar app with a WebRTC stack for voice and screen sharing, plus a lightweight signaling and relay server (e.g., LiveKit or a managed TURN provider). Transcription can use a streaming speech API such as Whisper or Deepgram. The hard parts are NAT traversal and call reliability across networks, and keeping latency low enough that hold-to-talk feels instant, which requires someone with real-time systems experience.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 453 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #7 of 454 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 358 days after the earliest competitor.

  • AirFliq · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Speaklively · ph · 2026-11-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Babblekey · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Hearby · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • MacSway · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Tetherly · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Mermaid · ph · 2026-10-16 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • AirWave · ph · 2026-11-12 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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