alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Someone Was Here – Find out who used your Mac while you were away
Many thanks to my ex for inspiring my new MacOS app, Someone Was Here.
It takes a photo of whoever uses your Mac while you're away, whether you left it unlocked or they know your password, and sends their photo to your iPhone if the face isn't yours.
I built Someone Was Here as a menu bar app making use of Apple Vision and a local face recognition run via Core ML. It all runs locally on your Mac with no tracking or ads.
Real-time remote alerts are available via one-time $4.99 lifetime purchase via the free companion iPhone/iPad app, Pushover, ntfy, Telegram or a webhook.
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ludsan • today at 7:41 PM
> Many thanks to my ex for inspiring my new MacOS app
story implied?
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hyperjeff • today at 8:02 PM
Ads for spyware on HN. Is the goal entrapment instead of proper account boundaries?
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Nice idea.
> Real-time remote alerts are available via one-time $4.99 lifetime purchase via the free companion iPhone/iPad app, Pushover, ntfy, Telegram or a webhook.
Instead of making users download 2 apps (one on the Mac and one on the iPhone), you should instead consider sending the alert by email (through Mail extensions) and / or iMessage (iMessage Extensions) - you can still charge for it.