Hey Product Hunt, Tomasz here
I'm very excited for the launch of Clyde! Working on it for a long time and glad to be able to share this with everyone. I wanted to share more about the rationale behind why I built Clyde.
Everyone wants to make their cowork UI a group of agents working tirelessly or their fav strategy rpg. But I feel like cowork doesn t need gamification or more visual noise. My take is the opposite philosophy. I think it s way better suited to become a Clippy 2.0.
Smol = it takes up way less screen real estate than most tools out there.
A few things people notice right away:
1. Recipes
Instead of abstract prompts, Clyde ships with recipes concrete, interesting use cases you can run or remix to help you in your everyday life. This makes it way easier to go from what can I do? to oh, that s useful.
2. Claude Code, personified
Clyde is basically Claude Code but as a monkey personification that feels warm, fun, and not intimidating. Clyde is the first Claude Code companion.
3. Smol footprint
No massive panels, no dashboards. Clyde lives on the edge of your workflow like a buddy that helps you out.
I'm launching an initial MacOS version and actively working on PC and mobile next. The goal is to keep Clyde fast, simple, and genuinely useful, not bloated.
If you re curious, please download it and play around with it at launch. I d love to hear:
Cowork
Hey Product Hunt, Tomasz here 👋🐒
Everyone wants to make their cowork UI a group of agents working tirelessly or their fav strategy rpg. But I feel like cowork doesn’t need gamification or more visual noise. My take is the opposite philosophy. I think it’s way better suited to become a Clippy 2.0.
Smol = it takes up way less screen real estate than most tools out there.
A few things people notice right away:
1. Recipes
Instead of abstract prompts, Clyde ships with “recipes” — concrete, interesting use cases you can run or remix to help you in your everyday life. This makes it way easier to go from “what can I do?” to “oh, that’s useful.”
2. Claude Code, personified
Clyde is basically Claude Code… but as a monkey personification that feels warm, fun, and not intimidating. Clyde is the first Claude Code companion.
3. Smol footprint
No massive panels, no dashboards. Clyde lives on the edge of your workflow like a buddy that helps you out.
This is the initial MacOS version — I’m actively working on PC and mobile next. The goal is to keep Clyde fast, simple, and genuinely useful, not bloated.
If you’re curious, download it and play around. I’d love to hear:
What features or recipes you want next
What feels confusing or missing
Issues you encounter
Drop questions, feedback, and requests here — I’m reading everything and adding features directly based on this launch 🙏
@tomasz888 Very cool Tomasz. Congrats on the launch. Do you have custom recipes? multi step?
Love the Clippy 2.0 framing but redesigned into a cute monkey. Curious to see how the recipe library evolves over time!
@josh_stilwell Thanks Josh!
Honestly, I had the opportunity to test Clyde and found my lil monkey assistant very helpful, besides being adorably cute! It explains things clearly, responds quickly, and makes tasks feel way less overwhelming which is what slows me down the most and gives me mental fatigue. Sometimes it needs a little clarification to get exactly what I want, but once it does, it’s spot on.
The monkey animation is very funny and smooth, and its integration with other software is quite complete. It would be even better if it could connect to some social media platforms.
@yan20 Appreciate your feedback Yan! Which social media platforms were you thinking of?
PROCESIO
looks great!!!
@madalina_barbu thanks so much Madalina!
Vozo AI — Video localization
Hey, Tomasz @tomasz888 How many bananas does Clyde need to do his job? 🐒🍌
Great work Tomasz!