Clippy, but on Steroids
"Hey Siri" with MCP calls and local LLM
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"Hey Siri" with MCP calls and local LLM
260 followers
Clippy is a friendly popup GPT using local LLMs that is aware of your current context and pastes responses right in the text field where you are working, eliminating copy pasting. You can use it with voice commands or dictate, all with local models. And it can create Linear tickets or edit your Google Clendar with your voice.
Clippy, but on Steroids
Hi Product Hunters 👋,
I'm Max,
I am coming from a non-technical background, from film production, and a bit more than a year ago I started building things that I like, that are useful for me, and that are fun.
I built Clippy because I wanted to have a cool way to dictate with local models and later I realised the whole GPT context copy and direct pasting possibility. And then ideas started storming with linear and co. I have a newer version with control of apple calendar and reminders, but thats still a work in progress.
And I chose Clippy for a vintage cute touch.
I did all the visuals myself in Figma and experimented a lot with liquid glass and local models.
Ah and as a fun fact - I coded around 90% of the app on airplane wifi, flying from Germany to SF. That was fun.
Hope you like it too.
Best,
Max
@maximilian_prokopp Hi Max, Congrats on the launch. You're a brave man using the clippy icon....Looks like a cool tool though.
Clippy, but on Steroids
@zolani_matebese thanks! Living on the edge :)
@maximilian_prokopp Congratulations on the launch! There’s a typo in the description — the word “Clendar.”
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Is the extension safe? :D Lately I was trying more extensions and LinkedIn started accusing me I am using some not good tools so they restricted my account for a while. Because this looks like a cool tool but I do not want to risk anything :D
minimalist phone: creating folders
Could you please fix this? I got a confirmation email, but after confirming (clicking the link in the email), I got the Localhost message.
Clippy, but on Steroids
@busmark_w_nika checking! But try the login again. Should work afterwards
Clippy, but on Steroids
@busmark_w_nika all is fixed with the signup mail. Apologies for the friction 😇
Clippy, but on Steroids
@busmark_w_nika my friends didnt have problems installing it :D I did my best to make it the best I can
Eliminating the 'copy-paste dance' between the browser and the text field is a huge UX win. It’s one of those friction points we just got used to, but didn't realize how annoying it was until a solution like Clippy arrived! The Linear and Google Calendar integration via voice is a game changer for productivity. My question: Which local model are you currently using for the 'context-aware' part? And is there a way for users to swap in their own models (like through Ollama)? Does Clippy 'see' the context of the specific app I'm in (like a code editor vs. an email client), or is it based on the text I've already typed in the field?
Clippy, but on Steroids
@yuanyuan_zhang0104 Swapping in is smart! I was using local apple foundation model and Gemma 4B. It is all about the text you have highlighted which makes the current context usage effortless
Congrats on the launch! Love the local-first, context-aware Clippy for frictionless in-app assistance.
Clippy, but on Steroids
@zeiki_yu happy you like it! :)
Context-aware “paste into active field” plus voice-triggered MCP tool calls can go sideways fast at scale: wrong-window injection, secure fields, and unintended side effects (Calendar, Linear) from misheard intent.
Best practice is capability-based tool permissions with explicit usaer-confirm steps and audit logs, plus OS-level allowlists and secure-field detection; for local dictation, streaming whisper.cpp-style on-device ASR with VAD keeps latency predictable and private
How do you sandbox MCP execution and prevent writes unless the focused app and target field pass an allowlist, especially around password or secure input contexts?
Clippy, but on Steroids
@ryan_thill thanks for the thoughts! I was working on a second version which gives you an approval checkbox for the MCP calls. Whisper runs locally, which is hat makes it ultra fast. And I did not have issues of it accidentalyl popping up and pasting wrong stuff :)
This is actually quite useful, could definitely unlock a lot of productivity in my day to day tasks 🚀 Thanks for sharing @maximilian_prokopp 🔥
Clippy, but on Steroids
@laurenz_sommerlad love that Laurenz! Hope you like it :)
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Clippy, but on Steroids
@curiouskitty Good points Kitty - I think tools should be fun and lively and the vibes of Clippy are a USP for me. But editing in place is actually the most usable feature for me and I rarely copy paste anymore. What would it be for you?