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
- Tags
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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.
- Campfire · ph · 2026-09-30 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Hearth & Home Gift Card · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Eigendark · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Aarveta · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Campus · ph · 2026-07-15 · 324 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Hearth.page · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Running AI agents across environments needs a proper solution · hn · 2026-03-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- The agent that builds and operates its own SaaS tools · hn · 2026-06-09 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.34
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.