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Product Hunt Bugrahan Zeki Kadak
sideOS is a Mac app that sits in the notch and does commands by voice. It can work offline or plug into your Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or Grok key.
Based on reporting by Product Hunt, Bugrahan Zeki Kadak — read the original for the full story.
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sideOS is launching on Product Hunt with a simple pitch: press Control + Option, say what you want, then let go. The app lives in the Mac’s notch and claims it can read the screen, open apps, click around, type, and tell you when the task is finished.
That makes it less a chatbot and more a hands-on Mac operator. The hook is speed, but also control: the whole thing is built around a shortcut, not another chat window sitting in the way.
The other part of the pitch is flexibility. sideOS can run fully offline with local models, or it can use a user’s own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or Grok key. That gives it a foot in both camps: the privacy-minded crowd that wants local execution, and the model-hopping crowd that just wants the job done.
Product Hunt lists it as a productivity and AI agents product, with payment required. It’s a familiar kind of launch page now: a small app promising to turn a Mac into something closer to a obedient assistant than a machine you have to micromanage.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the sort of agent demo that always sounds magical right up until it starts clicking the wrong thing. Still, the best angle here is obvious: let people choose local models or bring their own key, and the hype machine gets a little less obnoxious. Not every assistant needs to phone home like it’s filing taxes.
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