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Re:Show HN: Sidekins – Your new social and work buddy on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:49PM (#49982438)
which one? "A companion that lives on your Mac and hangs out with your friends’ sidekins." I call it a companion because it lives right on your screen like cute little person. It does make your interaction with friends much for fun, think of it like an emoji you'd add to your message to express yourself, with sidekins you can send a whole character expressing and doing stuff on their screens + all the work it gets done.

sorry if the message is not clear, I can reword it, hehe.

Do check out the demos on the website, that'll probably give a better picture.

Trust me, farting on your friends screen could only bring good to society ;)

Re:Show HN: Sidekins – Your new social and work buddy on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:37PM (#49981663)
I'm very much in favor of your idea, but this product is not that, this is just a very powerful tool with a funny face on it. The idea of Sidekins is not to just give you company and listen to you, it is actually meant to get things done and make talking to real people more fun.

I added the social angle to it because L never wanted to give people an AI companion which will just validate their feelings and isolate them, rather use AI to make an assistant that can help taking to friends more fun.

for example, I regularly ask my kin to go to my friends screen and do a fart animation and make a prrrrr sound, it irritates them and gives me joy, haha

Re:Show HN: Sidekins – Your new social and work buddy on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:29PM (#49981563)
Hehe, it is very fun to be honest, it's much more than just a pet. I use it to chat and disturb my friends and have started using it to do things on my mac handsfree.

never thought I'd make something so fun and useful and get hooked to it myself.

P.S. don't worry I'll make it available for non mac users soon, it's just the start

Wondering how the song matching works, are you using the standard Fast Fourier Transform?

Show HN: Sidekins – Your new social and work buddy

https://www.sidekins.com

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...

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hehe, thanks, that's the best reference. It's maybe Clippy reimagined in the AI world, more social and powerful.

I just wanted to make something fun at the end of the day, hope it meets the right people!!!

Show HN: Sidekins – a Mac companion that visits friends and does your work

https://www.sidekins.com

I'm a small indie developer, I've made a mac app called SidekinsIt is a small desktop character that you can design yourself(I call it a Kin/Sidekin) and lives around your screen and peeps from the side when not in use.It is a very social app, you can add your friends and chat with them using your Kin. It is an AI agent so you can ask in the main chat to delivery some message to your friend and...

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Re:Show HN: Are You in the Weights? on Friday June 19, 2026 @03:25AM (#48595792)
this is super fun, interesting to see how much these LLMs know things without internet as a knowledge base
Sounds like an interesting approach to the problem. Saving and maintaining agent session, would help resume work and recall old context.