Hey beautiful folks, Abhishek here.
2 Weeks ago, I build Assist out of frustration.
I was using native mac screenshot app for cropping and sending the image to codex. Along with long prompt I have to type (now speak).
This process is not bad but if you do this 100 times a day, annotating, cropping then it become frustrating.
Now, using Assist I hold option key and start annotating while speaking. The local model transcribe my voice, and create a optimise prompt which I can copy and send to codex, claude code or anywhere.
Assist is native macos notch so, when I take screenshot a quick screenshot editor appear right then and there with option like crop, blur and style.
All the data is stored locally and nothing is send to any server(there is no server). There is not subscription(one time only). Hope you like it.
A clipboard manager that keeps history is a secrets store whether you designed it as one or not. Everyone pastes an API key or a password out of a manager at some point, and now it's sitting in the notch ready to be reused. Do you detect and skip those, or is there at least a retention window I can set? The voice half is the interesting bit, most annotation tools make you type the thing you'd have said out loud in two seconds.
Congratulations on the launch! As someone who has carpal tunnel syndrome, this is really helpful.
About Assist on Product Hunt
“Voice annotate your Mac, get screenshots + clipboard manager”
Assist launched on Product Hunt on September 7th, 2026 and earned 129 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Annotate your Mac screen with voice, capture full-screen screenshots, and keep copied text ready to reuse from the notch.
Assist was featured in Mac (103.7k followers), Productivity (660k followers) and Audio (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 172k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Assist?
Assist was hunted by Abhishek Kumar. 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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