Show HN: Someone Was Here – Find out who used your Mac while you were away

Many thanks to my ex for inspiring my new MacOS app, Someone Was Here.

It takes a photo of whoever uses your Mac while you're away, whether you left it unlocked or they know your password, and sends their photo to your iPhone if the face isn't yours.

I built Someone Was Here as a menu bar app making use of Apple Vision and a local face recognition run via Core ML. It all runs locally on your Mac with no tracking or ads.

Real-time remote alerts are available via one-time $4.99 lifetime purchase via the free companion iPhone/iPad app, Pushover, ntfy, Telegram or a webhook.

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nikolay 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

How about the free DND (DoNotDisturb) [0] by Objective See foundation?

[0]: https://objective-see.org/products/donotdisturb.html

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thisislife2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nice idea.

> Real-time remote alerts are available via one-time $4.99 lifetime purchase via the free companion iPhone/iPad app, Pushover, ntfy, Telegram or a webhook.

Instead of making users download 2 apps (one on the Mac and one on the iPhone), you should instead consider sending the alert by email (through Mail extensions) and / or iMessage (iMessage Extensions) - you can still charge for it.

	▲	4onthefloor124 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Fair suggestion! The real-time remote alerts are optional. The companion app gives you encrypted delivery through your own iCloud account without involving my servers, but I can see the appeal of email. For anyone comfortable wiring things together, there’s also a built-in MCP server alongside webhooks, so there’s plenty of room for custom integrations.

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ludsan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Many thanks to my ex for inspiring my new MacOS app

story implied?

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4onthefloor124 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh yes...some relationships end in closure, others end in software.

	▲	ostacke 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe in Clojure, even

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hyperjeff 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ads for spyware on HN. Is the goal entrapment instead of proper account boundaries?

	▲	4onthefloor124 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The goal is an audit trail of someone trying to use your Mac, including at the lock screen. Much like a doorbell camera or home security system. It complements proper account boundaries. There's nothing hidden about the app. It sits visibly in the menu bar, and the camera light comes on whenever it takes a photo. Face recognition happens locally. Photos stay on your Mac unless you enable an alert destination. They never touch my server. No ads or tracking. I built it how I would want an app to function from a privacy standpoint.