Building Ziggy: making an AI that stays on your screen instead of another tab

Hi Product Hunt 👋

I’m currently building Ziggy, an on-screen AI companion that helps based on what you’re actually looking at — without forcing you to switch tabs or copy-paste content into a chat.

This week I’ve been focusing less on “new features” and more on UX polish.

One small but meaningful change:
Instead of making users wait in silence, Ziggy now instantly responds with “Thinking…” and then replaces it with the real answer once it’s ready.

It sounds tiny, but it made the experience feel much faster and more alive.

I’m trying to build Ziggy as something that feels more like a quiet companion than a noisy tool — helpful when needed, invisible otherwise.

Still very early, still learning a lot, and very open to feedback.

If you’re building something similar or care a lot about UX details, I’d love to hear:

• what small UX change made a big difference for you?

• or what you’d expect from an on-screen AI?

Thanks for reading 🙏