MiniAI lives in your macOS menu bar. Select any text — a PDF, an email, a code snippet. Hit ⌥Space. Get a clean AI explanation in a floating panel. No app switching. No copy-pasting into ChatGPT. Your focus stays where it was. Built by a med student who got tired of breaking focus while reading papers.
Hey PH! I'm a med student from Korea who started coding 2 months ago.
Built MiniAI because I got tired of jumping to a browser every time I hit an unfamiliar term while reading papers. Now it's a little AI that lives quietly in my menu bar — I select text, hit (⌥ space), and get an explanation without breaking focus.
Fair warning: I'm a solo maker with limited time (exams coming up), so the polish isn't Raycast-level. I chose shipping over perfection.
What I'd love feedback on: - Does the hotkey UX feel natural? - What situations would you use this in? - What's missing?
I mean to say it has context for all of the applications I'm using, right? So how is security being handled yet? Because if the app can see everything on my screen, then yeah, security will be a major issue. Let me know on that also.
About MiniAi on Product Hunt
“Select text, hit (⌥ space), get AI explanations”
MiniAi launched on Product Hunt on April 15th, 2026 and earned 82 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #25 on the daily leaderboard. MiniAI lives in your macOS menu bar. Select any text — a PDF, an email, a code snippet. Hit ⌥Space. Get a clean AI explanation in a floating panel. No app switching. No copy-pasting into ChatGPT. Your focus stays where it was. Built by a med student who got tired of breaking focus while reading papers.
MiniAi was featured in Mac (103.5k followers), Productivity (649.7k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (466.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 221.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted MiniAi?
MiniAi was hunted by Juhyeon Hwang. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Juhyeon Hwang
Hey PH! I'm a med student from Korea who started coding 2 months ago.
Built MiniAI because I got tired of jumping to a browser every time
I hit an unfamiliar term while reading papers. Now it's a little AI
that lives quietly in my menu bar — I select text, hit (⌥ space), and get an explanation without breaking focus.
Fair warning: I'm a solo maker with limited time (exams coming up),
so the polish isn't Raycast-level. I chose shipping over perfection.
What I'd love feedback on:
- Does the hotkey UX feel natural?
- What situations would you use this in?
- What's missing?
Free to try. Would love to hear your thoughts 🙏