AI Shortcut

What it does

Stop switching browser tabs just to chat with AI. AI Shortcut is a feather-light desktop client that puts every major AI model one global shortcut away. Press a key, type your prompt, and get back to your flow—no lag, no context switching, zero browser clutter. Designed for modern workflows, AI Shortcut stays out of your way until you need it, delivering instant AI power right at your cursor.

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  Shortcut2024 · app.poised.com · ▲293

  Your AI partner that works at the speed of voice

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  Google Chrome SkillsApr 2026 · blog.google · ▲273

  Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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  Quicky AI2023 · quickyai.com · ▲280

  Using AI is made easy, productive and instant on any website

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  AI Context FlowNov 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · ▲431

  Reusable AI Memory for Smarter Prompts Anywhere

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  Briefly AI2023 · brieflyai.com · ▲406

  AI meeting summaries, follow-up emails, and deliverables

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  ShortCut AI2025 · ▲10

  Associate AI with keyboard shortcuts.

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  Spira Maxima▲578

  Video model that turns script into viral social media videos

  AI · 20d ago · spira.ai

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  Rill Browser▲540

  The browser where Claude Code and Codex work beside you

  AI · 20d ago · rill.love

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  Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri▲424

  Kolibri is Aleph Alpha

  AI · 22d ago · tej.as

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  Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas▲392

  Paintings by AI models: programs run through a simulation of oil paint.

  AI · 23d ago · stillwet.art

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  Beam.win▲377

  Run AI agents on one Mac and use its windows on another

  AI · 6d ago · beam.win

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  FastRouter.ai▲364

  Route requests to the right LLM for cost, latency & quality

  AI · 24d ago · fastrouter.ai

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  The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude▲710

  Life & fun · Aug 2026 · louisabraham.github.io

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  Hey Noah▲656

  A proactive AI executive assistant for founders

  AI · Aug 2026 · heynoah.io

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  Clipto MCP▲655

  Hey HN, We recently built Clipto. It’s a tool that lets you search over terabytes of video, audio, and images on your computer, without relying on the cloud. Motivation: we probably all had this similar experience, we know a moment exists in a video or audio, but finding it takes hours scrubbing the timeline. You can send all the media to process in the cloud, but it’s slow, expensive and raises privacy concerns. So we decided to build our own on-device media search engine. How it works (high level): 1. We ingest video, audio, image; normalize formats via ffmpeg; run content analysis to…

  Work · Aug 2026 · clipto.com

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  Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones▲627

  Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has. The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for…

  Life & fun · Aug 2026 · toneyalexander.github.io

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  AdAnt AI▲620

  Claude for viral, high-converting social ads

  AI · Aug 2026 · adant.ai

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  Astute▲606

  Automate your B2B brand going viral, with new media creators

  AI · Aug 2026 · company-app.joinastute.com