Pawvis

@heresalexandria The phone camera trick solves my whole desk situation, trying that tonight. Thanks for the properly thorough answer, and congrats on the launch!

@heresalexandria Scrolling by slinging pages around like a web shooter sounds genuinely fun haha. What happens when my hand drops out of frame mid drag though, does the click just release wherever the cursor happens to be? My webcam sits at a weird angle so half my desk is out of shot.

Does it work well using your iPhone as a camera?

local processing is the right call for something that's watching you through the camera all the time. curious about the false-positive side though - if I'm on a video call and gesture naturally while talking (pointing at something, raising a hand to make a point), does Pawvis pick that up as a click/scroll command since it's presumably still watching in the background, or is there some way to pause tracking specifically for calls without fully quitting the app

Cheers, Product Hunt!I'm Alexandria, the creator of Pawvis. I made Pawvis because I wanted to use my computer the way we've been promised for decades that we would in the future. Pawvis reads your hand through the webcam and lets your control your mouse, manage windows, and bind custom actions to any gesture (even user-trained).Dip a finger to click, fold middle and ring finger in like you're slinging web pages up and down to scroll, dip your pinky in to right click - these are the initial primitives but only the start, and all tracking is performed on-device with code you can read/clone/build yourself from the open source repo.While I've seen other concepts for hand/gesture tracking through video and voice control none had hit the mark of where I felt that technology could go from a usability and extensibility standpoint.A good input mechanism needs to be frictionless, it needs to be intuitive, and it needs to be able to adapt to the unique user using it when possible.Pawvis tackles this through opinionated but configurable gesture mapping, aggressive optimization to make a capable detection process work smoothly and privately on your local machine, and fully user specified custom trained gestures tied to any action you want to make things like window management or launching apps and shortcuts a breeze.I also added voice control (using Apple Intelligence) to further round out touch points, which supports its own native agent control harness or can hand computer use tasks off to Claude Code or Codex (if you set that up and have them installed).Pawvis provides the an ideal blend of utility, technology, and whimsy - and I hope you all enjoy using it as much as I have! Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions, and feel free to clone it (it's open-source MIT licensed) or open any PRs/issues you think might take it to the next level.Excelsior,Alexandria