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Hearth

a shared family workspace where an agent can build apps

Details

External ID
49292004
Source
HN
Company
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Product
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Website domain
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Launched
Aug. 13, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
9
Upvotes percentile
0.5309139784946236
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Fetched at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.

Description

Hi HN — I built Hearth for my family: https://ourhearth.aiHearth is a shared workspace for a household. We use it for plans, notes, schedules, people, and recurring family rituals, with an AI agent that can work across that context. Kind of like a shared Obsidian with an agent.The cool part is that the agent can also build apps on top of the family's notes and run them inside the same workspace. We have a calendar and a travel app, for instance, and all the apps I use to manage my company's operations are in another Hearth.Hearth is built on Playground, a library we're developing for building collaborative AI coding harnesses. The common primitives are synchronized files, agents, people, app code sandboxing, and a policy layer. Hearth is the family-scale example; we're building Bear for construction projects using the same library.Hearth is beta software! We designed it with isolation and least-privilege in mind, but I recommend that you don't put anything too sensitive in there until the source is out and stable (we're making Hearth open source soon).If this sounds like something you family could use, check it out and let me know what you think!More background: [Hearth: Build your own assistant](https://bear.build/posts/hearth-build-your-own-assistant/)

Enrichment

Theme
personal and family life organizers
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Agent / copilot
Audience
B2C
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
family workspace for ai agents to build apps
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes A shared household wiki/workspace with multi-user sync and an LLM agent capable of invoking tools on family notes can be readily assembled with modern full-stack frameworks and agent tool-calling APIs.

Discussion

3 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Home Assistant

Concerns raised: Limited IoT provider integrations built in, All household members have access to same devices/controls

Feature requests: More IoT providers built in natively, Per-user or per-device access controls

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 33 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #21 of 34 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 245 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.