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Show HN: Sidekins – Your new social and work companion

https://www.sidekins.com
1•18kage•45m ago
Introducing Sidekins!!!

It is a small desktop character that you can design yourself(We call it a Kin/Sidekin) and it lives around your screen and peeps from the side when not in use.

The platform is social, so you can add your friends to it and your kin runs it for you. You can ask it to "become Michael Jackson and go do moonwalk" on your friends desktop or just about anything...

You can also ask it to help you "guide" through your mac, or any app, it moves and points around telling you how things work. There is also a "do" mode, this actually does things for you on your mac, like play this song on Spotify or add an iPhone 16 to my amazon cart.

design your own kin and watch the demos: www.sidekins.com

Currently, it works on Mac with apple silicon

Try it out, and connect with me on the app: @18kushaljain

Comments

octantes•11m ago
I don't have a mac but seems like a fun concept! I remember loving the pepsiman pet as a kid
verdverm•8m ago
this is like infinite scroll, cool tech thing, disastrous for humanity in the long run (ai companions broadly)

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