Show HN: Omi – watches your screen, hears conversations, tells you what to do

Posted by kodjima33 2 days ago

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Spent 4 months and built Omi for Desktop, your life architect: It sees your screen, hears your conversations and will advise you on what to do next

Basically Cluely + Rewind + Granola + Wisprflow + ChatGPT + Claude in one app

I talk to claude/chatgpt 24/7 but I find it frustrating that i have to capture/send screenshots of my screen and that it doesn't help proactively during my work

Whenever omi sees something wrong about my workflow, it will send me a proactive notification with advice. It will also point to something I'm missing.

The hardest part was to nail proactivity - after trying 20+ similar tools I didn't find a single one with smart proactive notifications based on content on your screen. I made it look at your screen every second with 4 main prompts:

1. Is the user productive or distracted?

2. Is there anything useful to say right now?

3. is there any task to add to do later?

4. is there anything important to remember about the user?

Full stack: - Swift - Rust backend - Deepgram transcription - Claude code for messaging - GPT 5.4 summaries - Gemini for embeddings and translation

Open source, stores screenshots locally, uses Claude Code for chat. Has cloud to sync with hardware or mobile app but can be disabled in settings

Comments

Comment by rl3 1 day ago

>1. Is the user productive or distracted?

Pomodoro and todo list apps are so yesterday. Now I can have my graphics card observe me as an ever-vigilant guardian of productivity.

That might sound sarcastic, but moving context between prompts and just keeping the gears turning often isn't really that cognitively engaging these days. Thus, attention suffers.

So, that's actually pretty useful.

sudo humanctl status

Comment by hahooh 1 day ago

It’s funny how some people try so hard to protect their personal data, while others just give it all away.

Comment by cheevly 1 day ago

Oh nooo not my precious daaaata

Comment by esperent 1 day ago

Case in point.

Comment by naomi_lgbt 1 day ago

Woah, this is super cool! I'd love to hear more~

What motivated you to build this? What did you learn? What is your favourite part?

Comment by smartypant 1 day ago

this sounds cool but on the website I saw the previous version where its more like a passive device to listen, transcribe and save. how does it record the screen and doens't capturing the screen and converting that into text takes a lot of time? That will make it super slow. isnt it?

Comment by _aavaa_ 19 hours ago

Something, something, torment nexus.

Comment by jusasiiv 1 day ago

What kind of token usage you have with this setup? Also why both ChatGPT and Claude?

Comment by smartypant 1 day ago

this sounds cool but on the website I saw the previous version where its more like a passive device to listen, transcribe and save.

Comment by nprateem 1 day ago

You could pitch it as your "digital nagging housewife", or a "micromanager in a box". How about "your time wasting interrupt-otron" or just "flow-breaker"?

Seriously why would you think AI could read my mind and tell me what to do next without knowing my goals?

This sounds like the irritating tangential follow-on questions they ask on steroids. Generally irrelevant and take the conversation in a direction you don't want to go.

Comment by bakaev 2 days ago

imagine getting micro managed by this omi lol

Comment by Biologist123 1 day ago

I guess you have to turn it on. Might be handy for things like electrician courses, DIY jobs, maths homework etc. Maybe one day even surgery!

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Comment by kodjima33 2 days ago

You can but don't you think that these days our brains are too precious to think about small stupid things

I'd rather listen to an AI for small things and use my brain on smth big and creative that AI cannot think about

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