{"slug": "show-hn-hodor-a-701kb-native-macos-prompt-launcher-for-ai-tools", "title": "Show HN: Hodor – a 701KB native macOS prompt launcher for AI tools", "summary": "A developer released Hodor, a 701KB native macOS app that launches saved AI prompts into any text field via screen edge, keyboard shortcut, or keyword. The free, open-source tool uses SwiftUI and SwiftData with no network requests, analytics, or telemetry, and runs on macOS 15+. The creator built it to replace scattered prompt storage across Raycast, Apple Notes, and Notion.", "body_md": "Hodor is a tiny macOS app that launches saved AI prompts into any text field — from the screen edge, keyboard shortcut, or keyword such as ;git.\n\nI work with different AI tools every day, and had prompts scattered across Raycast snippets, Apple Notes, and Notion — notes that kept getting longer and unmanageable. Raycast snippets are useful, but cumbersome to browse and edit. I wanted one local place to save and review them, and one click to paste them into whatever AI tool I'm using. The test I set was whether I could actually stop using Raycast snippets for this. I think I fulfilled my goal. Hodor has been my daily tool for 3 months now.\n\nThe app is 701 KB — SwiftUI + SwiftData, no web views. Zero network requests anywhere in the code: no analytics, no telemetry, no update checks. You can verify - search the source for URLSession, it's not in code.\n\nRuns on macOS 15+, with native Liquid Glass on macOS 26+. Free and open source.\n\nGitHub: [https://github.com/woody-design/hodor](https://github.com/woody-design/hodor)\n\nLet me know if you have any suggestions — I'd love to hear how you solved the scattered-prompts problem.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296678](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296678)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hodor-a-701kb-native-macos-prompt-launcher-for-ai-tools", "canonical_source": "https://hodor.design", "published_at": "2026-05-27 16:30:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-27 16:45:56.112350+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Hodor", "Raycast", "Apple Notes", "Notion", "SwiftUI", "SwiftData", "macOS", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hodor-a-701kb-native-macos-prompt-launcher-for-ai-tools", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hodor-a-701kb-native-macos-prompt-launcher-for-ai-tools.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hodor-a-701kb-native-macos-prompt-launcher-for-ai-tools.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hodor-a-701kb-native-macos-prompt-launcher-for-ai-tools.jsonld"}}