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DesktopVisionMCP. Show, don't tell.
Stop describing your screen or pasting screenshots to AI.
You describe your screen to your assistant. You screenshot it, crop it, paste it, and still leave out the thing that mattered. DesktopVisionMCP lets it look instead. A macOS menu bar app and a plain MCP server, so it works with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini, or whatever you move to next. It captures only when asked. It never records, never clicks, never types, and its state is always in the menu bar. Captures go to the assistant that asked, and nowhere else.
Thanks for taking a look. A few things I expect to come up:
- Privacy: DesktopVisionMCP captures only when your assistant asks, never continuously, and the capture goes to the assistant that asked and nowhere else. Nothing reaches me. Worth being straight about the other half: if your assistant runs in the cloud, then your screen reaches that provider, the same way a screenshot you paste would. The app shows its state in the menu bar at all times and stops completely when you stop it.
- Other options (screenshot and paste, screen-sharing tools): the point here is that there is nothing new to live in. It is a plain MCP server, so it shows up inside Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini, or whatever you switch to next. You ask your actual question instead of narrating what is on screen, and the assistant sees the real stack trace, the real diff, the real spreadsheet.
- It does not click, type, or act on your machine. It reads the screen and hands back an image. That is the whole surface.
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About DesktopVisionMCP. Show, don't tell. on Product Hunt
“Stop describing your screen or pasting screenshots to AI.”
DesktopVisionMCP. Show, don't tell. was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #42 on the daily leaderboard. You describe your screen to your assistant. You screenshot it, crop it, paste it, and still leave out the thing that mattered. DesktopVisionMCP lets it look instead. A macOS menu bar app and a plain MCP server, so it works with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini, or whatever you move to next. It captures only when asked. It never records, never clicks, never types, and its state is always in the menu bar. Captures go to the assistant that asked, and nowhere else.
DesktopVisionMCP. Show, don't tell. was featured in Developer Tools (517.4k followers), Artificial Intelligence (475.9k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 195.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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DesktopVisionMCP. Show, don't tell. was hunted by Gorka Ludlow. 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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