We built Ara for people who want an AI that actually does things on their computer — not just types back in a chat window.
Instead of juggling ChatGPT, Slack, your browser, your IDE, and 14 other tabs, Ara lives in your notch. Hit a hotkey, give it a task, and watch it execute on your Mac.
Things you can text into existence:
🖥️ "Pull this week's Stripe revenue and drop it in our standup doc"
📧 "Reply to the last 5 emails in my inbox"
🔍 "Find every YC P26 AI agent company and put them in a Notion doc"
📅 "Book a 30-min with John and Sarah next week, send invites"
⚡ "Open my repo, pull main, run the tests"
No tab switching. No copy-paste. No babysitting. Just hit the notch, give the task, walk away.
Wispr Flow on the surface. Jarvis underneath.
If you try it, drop the wildest thing you got Ara to do — we ship daily based on what breaks 🚀
Imagine being productive during your coffee chat or while you take a lap around the office. This is sick and will be experimenting with what I can get it to do for my startup without breaking :)
Ara talks about a persistent runtime with files, skills, and memory—how do you decide what gets written to long-term memory vs kept as ephemeral task state, and how do you prevent “stale decisions” or accidental instruction/memory poisoning from affecting future runs?
That’s a really interesting approach. I’m excited to try this.
I imagine it probably takes a while to get used to handing off things that used to be manual work, but once that shift happens, I can see this becoming really powerful.
One thing I’m curious about though: is there some kind of security layer or approval system to prevent accidental file deletions or unintended emails or stuff like that?
Hey Builders & Automators!! 👋
We built Ara for people who want AI to actually do the work, not just chat about it.
Think Wispr Flow, but with hands. Just say it. It's done.
Ara lives in your notch and drives your Mac like you would, moving the cursor, clicking apps, filling forms, navigating the browser. You watch it work.
🖱️ State-of-the-art computer use and ACP running right in your notch
🤖 Bring your own LLM and use Codex like Computer Use, free
🔗 1,000+ integrations (Gmail, Slack, Notion, GitHub, and more)
No prompting gymnastics. No babysitting. Just say it.
Try it and tell us what you automated first 👇
About Ara on Product Hunt
“Agentic Wispr flow computer-use-agent living in your notch”
Ara launched on Product Hunt on May 8th, 2026 and earned 131 upvotes and 15 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. Automate everything. Bring your own LLM provider and use Codex app like Computer use for free, with several agents that can work for you autonomously.
Ara was featured in Open Source (68.4k followers), Developer Tools (512.4k followers) and Computers (2.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 80.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Ara?
Ara was hunted by Garry Tan. 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.
Want to see how Ara stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
Garry Tan
Hey Agent Operators! 👋
We built Ara for people who want an AI that actually does things on their computer — not just types back in a chat window.
Instead of juggling ChatGPT, Slack, your browser, your IDE, and 14 other tabs, Ara lives in your notch. Hit a hotkey, give it a task, and watch it execute on your Mac.
Things you can text into existence:
🖥️ "Pull this week's Stripe revenue and drop it in our standup doc"
📧 "Reply to the last 5 emails in my inbox"
🔍 "Find every YC P26 AI agent company and put them in a Notion doc"
📅 "Book a 30-min with John and Sarah next week, send invites"
⚡ "Open my repo, pull main, run the tests"
No tab switching. No copy-paste. No babysitting. Just hit the notch, give the task, walk away.
Wispr Flow on the surface. Jarvis underneath.
If you try it, drop the wildest thing you got Ara to do — we ship daily based on what breaks 🚀