Not to mention is open source and MIT licensed...!
Looks like another contender has entered the stage!
About Hermes Desktop on Product Hunt
“The agent that grows with you”
Hermes Desktop launched on Product Hunt on June 3rd, 2026 and earned 140 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Hermes Desktop — the open-source agent that grows with you, now a native app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. By Nous Research.
On the analytics side, Hermes Desktop competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hermes Desktop performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hermes Desktop?
Hermes Desktop was hunted by Chris Messina. 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.
For a complete overview of Hermes Desktop including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Chris Messina
On the heels of the demise of Windsurf, clearly the future is agents writing software, not humans.
Which is why Hermes Desktop is very interesting.
It combines elements of @Claude Code or @OpenAI Codex CLI with that of @OpenClaw ... and supports a large number of connectors out of the box:
Not to mention is open source and MIT licensed...!
Looks like another contender has entered the stage!