Clippy for macOS
retro floating paperclip with computer use
Details
- External ID
- 49223981
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Clippy for macOS
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5309139784946236
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ai assistant with computer use for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a floating desktop web/native window overlaying retro animations while sending screenshots and user commands to Anthropic's Computer Use API.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Bonzai Buddy
Feature requests: work with local models without using Claude Code in local mode
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 540 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #255 of 541 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
- Imagin Raw · hn · 2026-07-21 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Compositor · github · 2026-09-16 · 3456 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- BetterCapture · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- omarchy-clippy · github · 2026-09-13 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ClipStudio-Desktop · github · 2026-09-22 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Simple Screenshot Copy · hn · 2026-08-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Vinyl · hn · 2026-08-03 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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.