Meet Marv, your cursor’s new plus-one. Hold a hotkey and ask about anything on your screen. Marv answers out loud while drawing arrows, circling buttons and writing notes directly on your screen to walk you through it. Debug some code, work out a spreadsheet formula or find the right control in your video editor, all without leaving the app you’re using.
Hey, I’m Cameron. I’ve been building Marv for Windows.
The idea came from a pretty simple frustration: you’re looking at an app, you know what you want to do, but you have no idea which button or setting gets you there.
Marv sits beside your cursor. Hold a hotkey and ask about what’s on your screen. It answers out loud and can circle things, point at buttons and draw over the screen while it explains.
A couple of examples: finding the right export option, working out a spreadsheet formula, or getting through a task in software you don’t know very well.
I’ve also put a lot into the character. I wanted Marv to feel like a little companion you’d actually want on your desktop.
I’m collecting early-access signups at meetmarv.org. I’d love to hear what you’d use it for. What’s one Windows app you always end up searching for help with?
I’ll be around in the comments to answer questions!
Thanks!
Cam
This is awesome, and I love the angle where it helps you actually do the actions yourself, not for you like every other agent people are building. That way you get the work done AND can reproduce it later without AI, love it!
Drawing the arrow is a much stronger claim than saying the answer, and that's the part I'd be careful with. If a chat reply is wrong I argue with it, but a circle around a button reads as certainty and I'll have clicked before I've thought about it. The feature I'd want is Marv visibly hedging when it's guessing, because confidently pointing at the wrong control is the failure that actually costs someone their afternoon.
the "draws arrows and circles buttons on your actual screen" part is the thing that would make this stick for me over a wall of text explanation. most AI help ends up describing where to click in words, and words are a bad medium for pointing at a specific pixel. does Marv work across multiple monitors, or does the overlay get confused about which screen you're actually looking at when it draws the arrow
i joined the waitlist! congrats for the launch!
i think ur strategy of launching before actually releasing the product makes a lot of sense!
I run into this problem all the time. I can’t find the button the LLM is referring to, waste a lot of time looking for it, and eventually just let it control my screen, which burns even more time and tokens. Great product idea, joined the waitlist!
Hhehe loved the character, and even more the idea. Wish you all the best here!
About Marv on Product Hunt
“An AI cursor companion that shows you what to click”
Marv launched on Product Hunt on October 5th, 2026 and earned 93 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. Meet Marv, your cursor’s new plus-one. Hold a hotkey and ask about anything on your screen. Marv answers out loud while drawing arrows, circling buttons and writing notes directly on your screen to walk you through it. Debug some code, work out a spreadsheet formula or find the right control in your video editor, all without leaving the app you’re using.
Marv was featured in Productivity (663.5k followers), Developer Tools (521.5k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (481.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 390.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Marv?
Marv was hunted by Cameron McHardy. 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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