Annotate

Annotate showed up on Product Hunt with a simple pitch: stop typing paragraphs describing a bug or a design tweak, just record your screen and let that become the prompt. The idea sits at the intersection of two things everyone's been fumbling with lately — screen recording tools that have gotten dead simple to use, and AI models that are increasingly good at parsing video and turning messy input into structured instructions.

Anyone who has tried to explain a UI glitch to a developer over Slack knows the pain this is aimed at. You click around, you say "see, right here, it does the thing," and then you try to type that into a bug tracker in a way that makes sense six months later. Annotate's bet is that the recording itself, plus whatever you say while making it, is a better prompt than anything you'd type afterward. Feed that to a model, and in theory you get a usable task description, a bug report, or a spec, without the translation step.

This fits a pattern that's been building across dev tools and design tools all year: less typing, more showing. Tools like Loom already made screen recording casual and disposable. What Annotate adds is the AI layer that reads the recording and spits out something structured — a prompt, presumably, that a coding assistant or another AI tool could act on directly.

The Product Hunt listing itself is barebones, just a title and a discussion link, which is typical for early-stage launches fishing for feedback before a fuller rollout. No pricing, no demo video breakdown, no word yet on which AI models it plugs into on the back end. That's the kind of detail that usually surfaces once the comments section fills up and the founders start answering questions.