Ben Lang

Shadow - The interface AI needs. One that sees, hears, and runs.

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Shadow is the AI interface for your Mac. It sees your screen, hears your voice, and runs the prompts you build — on a keyboard shortcut, or in your meetings. 🪄 Skills do the work. Quick Reply drafts emails from what you say and what’s on screen. Voice Typing turns talking into clean text, anywhere. Meeting Skills capture every word and screen, then deliver notes and follow-ups the moment you hang up. Build your own — every Skill is a prompt, a context, and an output.

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Jay Song
Hey Product Hunt 👋 Jay here, founder of Shadow. This is our 4th time launching here, and the most meaningful one for me. Each launch shaped what Shadow became. The community here pushed us, called out what didn't work, and stuck with us. I'm a different founder than I was at launch one, and Shadow is a different product. Thank you all 🙏 Here's something most people don't know about us. We never set out to build a meeting assistant. 👉 What we cared about from day one was closing the gap between your world and AI. Meetings were just where we started. The most obvious place where context gets lost the fastest, and the most urgent thing to solve. So we did that first. But meetings were never the whole point. So here's what we've been thinking about. ⌨️ The keyboard and 🖱️ mouse. They have been around for decades. They were built for a world where you do the executing. You type every word, click every button, do every step. But that world is changing. AI writes, codes, replies, decides. Execution is no longer just yours to carry. And yet, every time you want AI to help, you stop what you're doing, open a chat box, and start copying, pasting, prompting. You become the bridge between your world and AI. A new way of working, but the same old interface. ✨ Shadow V2 is what we always wanted to build. An interface built not for execution, but for thought. One that captures what you see, hear, and say, and runs the prompts you build. The biggest addition is ⚡️Action Skills. Press a keyboard shortcut on any screen, say what you want, and Shadow runs your Skill right there. No copy, no paste, no prompt. A few examples: - ⚡ Quick Reply reads the email on your screen and drafts the response from what you say. - 🎙️ Voice Typing turns talking into clean writing in any text field, about 4x faster than typing. Every Skill is yours to edit. A prompt, what Shadow watches, where the output goes. Change any of them and you have a new Skill. 📝 Meetings got better too. We rebuilt the transcription engine from the ground up, faster and more stable than before. Speaker labeling is significantly improved, which was one of your most requested fixes. No bot ever joins your call, audio stays on your Mac, and your meeting becomes whatever Skill you point at it. A few things we cared a lot about: - 🚫 No bot ever joins your call. - 🤖 Fully autonomous, runs without you even knowing. - 🔒 Audio stays on your Mac, local transcription - 🔗 Webhook and Markdown export for everything If you've used Shadow before, thank you for sticking around 🙏 V2 is what V1 was always pointing toward. If you're new, welcome 👋 Would love to hear what Skills you'd build first. Jay
Phoenix J

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 We worked really hard on this one. Hope you enjoy it! If Shadow makes even one part of your day a little easier, that means a lot to us. Would love to hear what you think! Your feedback genuinely shapes what we build next. 🙏

Jay Song

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Pranav Prakash

Quite amazing. What models are included? BYOK?

Jay Song

@pranavprakash Glad you like it! We don't have BYOK available, and we aren't letting users choose specific AI models right now as we're focused on automatically detecting the best context for each situation. That said, it's definitely something we're considering for later.

Kevin Lee

Our team poured a lot into this launch — every detail was deliberate. We focused heavily on making things smoother and more intuitive, so Shadow fits into your workflow rather than the other way around. Hope it genuinely makes your day a little easier. Can't wait to hear how it's working for you 🙌

Jay Song

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Jayden

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 We've put everything into this, and I'm genuinely excited to finally share it with you all. I hope you get to experience firsthand how Shadow can change the way you work. Give it a try, and please share any feedback, what you liked, what felt confusing, or what could be better. Every comment helps us make it better. 💪

Jay Song

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Jim Jeffers

The “prompt, context, output” shape for Skills is a strong abstraction. The place I’d be most curious to see exposed is context boundaries: when a Skill uses screen state, meeting transcript, selected text, or prior notes, can the user see exactly which inputs were used before the output gets sent or saved?

That matters a lot for trust in quick replies and follow-ups. If the interface makes context visible and editable, Shadow feels less like a hidden automation layer and more like a controllable work surface for AI.

Jay Song

@jim_jeffers Appreciate the comment, Jim. We value user privacy, so we've designed Shadow so that you can manually control exactly which data(screenshot, voice input, and etc.) is used for each Skill. For meetings, transcripts, participant data, and others are shared when you use a meeting Skill, but you have full control over which Skill is active and when. Nothing is hidden from the user. It’s meant to be a tool that lets you capture context and run your own prompts with total visibility into what's happening!

Jim Jeffers

That makes sense — the manual control is the important part.

One UX idea I’d be curious about: a small “context receipt” after a Skill runs. Something like: screenshot used, transcript segment used, selected text used, voice instruction used. Even if users choose inputs up front, that receipt would make it easier to audit a quick reply later, especially when the output gets sent into email, Slack, CRM, etc.@jaythesong 

Jared Salois

Four launches in, still Mac-only. For a solo power user that's fine. But the moment this becomes a team tool you hit the wall immediately if anyone's on Windows. Congrats on the launch!

Jay Song

@jared_salois Thanks for the comment! You’re right. The Windows version is taking much longer than we initially anticipated, but we’ve been prioritizing getting the Mac version right first.