Dockly - Your workspace, as a REST API. For humans & AI.

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 The honest origin story: I was building an AI agent on Windows and watching it take a 4MB screenshot just to find the right Chrome tab to click. Then it'd misidentify the tab, take another screenshot, try again... burning thousands of tokens on something a human does in half a second. That's when I realized — the desktop has no API. Everything an AI agent "sees" is a blurry pixel grid. That's insane in 2025. So I built Dockly to fix that. The original version was just a quick REST endpoint — dump all open windows + Chrome tabs as JSON so my agent could read them. Ugly, but it worked instantly. Token usage dropped by ~95%. Then I thought: if I'm already reading all this data in real-time, why not surface it as a side panel for me too? That's how the human sidebar was born — a dark-mode panel that slides in with Ctrl+Shift+Space showing every open app, Chrome tab, and terminal across all profiles at once. The hardest part was Chrome's multi-profile isolation — it genuinely blocks cross-profile data access. I had to build a browser extension that syncs each profile separately back to Dockly. Once that clicked, the whole thing came together. What I'd love to know from you: Are you building AI agents that need to interact with the desktop? What's the most painful part of that workflow right now? Would love to hear it. Happy to help anyone get set up 🙌