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Handrail
An arrow to the control you need
A desktop overlay that sees your screen, answers questions about it, and points at the control you need. Ask a question; Handrail sends your screenshot and question to your chosen vision model, then draws arrows at real controls. It watches multi-step checklists as you work. Electron, Apache-2.0; local threads, OS-keychain API key, no account/telemetry; web search off by default. BYO OpenRouter/OpenAI/Anthropic key. Working daily by maker; author-only so far.
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Built because software help usually assumes you already know what things are called. It looks at your screen, answers about that screen, and points at the control it means.
About Handrail on Product Hunt
“An arrow to the control you need”
Handrail was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #141 on the daily leaderboard. A desktop overlay that sees your screen, answers questions about it, and points at the control you need. Ask a question; Handrail sends your screenshot and question to your chosen vision model, then draws arrows at real controls. It watches multi-step checklists as you work. Electron, Apache-2.0; local threads, OS-keychain API key, no account/telemetry; web search off by default. BYO OpenRouter/OpenAI/Anthropic key. Working daily by maker; author-only so far.
On the analytics side, Handrail competes within Developer Tools, GitHub and SDK — topics that collectively have 562.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Handrail performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Handrail?
Handrail was hunted by Maaz Kazi. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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