SlashVibe is a handheld hardware controller that sits beside your monitor and gives you one place to watch, steer, and talk to the AI coding agents already running on your computer. It works alongside supported AI agents and tools in your existing terminal or IDE, adding a dedicated display, voice input, and physical controls rather than supplying or replacing the model itself. Compatibility at launch spans more than 20 agents including Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Kiro, Qwen, Kimi, and others , which positions it for developers who are now juggling several concurrent agent sessions and losing track of which one is waiting on them.
The device pairs a 3.96-inch LCD display connected to the computer by USB-C with a detachable 2.4GHz wireless controller that uses Kailh ultra-low-profile mechanical switches and a two-axis joystick . A glance at the screen shows which sessions are running, done, or waiting on input, selecting a session brings its window to the front on your main machine, and permission prompts or multiple-choice options can be approved directly on the hardware. Dual MEMS microphones and voice software are built in, and pressing the record button is ready to capture audio in under 100 milliseconds , with the same dictation also usable for emails and notes. A developer SDK lets users connect agents that are not yet supported or design their own dashboards for the display.
This launch marks the lead-up to a Kickstarter campaign on October 27, with first units expected to begin shipping in March 2027 and software offered as a free plan plus optional $8 and $14 monthly tiers for heavier cloud dictation and storage use. The company, also known as 自然映射, is a Shenzhen seed-stage team led by co-founder and CEO Brian with co-founder Luo Danbin, drawing on prior experience from ByteDance, Anker, Huawei, and Apple.
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Niamh O.4h ago
The hero shot in the tweet is doing a lot of heavy lifting but I need to see the latency on that agent-switch flick. If it feels like a laggy Elgato Stream Deck I'm out.
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Lina Okafor3h ago
Nobody is talking about the fulfillment side. Who's doing your injection molding, where are units warehoused, and are you drop-shipping from Shenzhen or holding stock stateside?
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Rohan Veerappan4h ago
This is almost certainly the last hardware product designed by humans without an agent in the loop. Next year's version writes its own firmware and ships itself.
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Tomasz R.4h ago
ok wait, a physical knob for agents is actually the unlock I didn't know I needed. If you ship a developer SDK before December I will buy three.
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Mika Haavisto4h ago
Tagline rewrite, no charge: 'Grab your agents by the dial.' You can thank me by sending me a unit in matte black.
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Yusuf El-Amin4h ago
Mic-enabled device plus agent credentials plus 'speak your next instruction' is a compliance surface area I'd want to understand. Where does the audio get processed and is there an EU data residency story?
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Paola Mendes4h ago
Is the firmware open? Can I write my own agent adapters, or am I locked to whatever integrations ship on day one? Docs link would be clutch.
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Dr. Zola Nkwe3h ago
Curious whether the agent-switching uses a learned intent classifier or just explicit routing. Smells like the latter from the demo, which is fine, just say it.
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Kenji Watanabe4h ago
Reminds me of the early Rabbit energy but with an actual job to do. If the switching UX nails what Raycast did for keyboards, this has legs.
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Ananya K.3h ago
Been prototyping something adjacent in my garage, 3 weeks from launching mine. Genuinely curious how you landed on the puck form factor vs a slider.
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Dmitri Sokolov3h ago
Pacing on this launch is tighter than the last five hardware drops in this category. Clean thread, one product shot, no 14-tweet manifesto, chef's kiss.
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maxcaffeine3h ago
hot take: the voiceover on the launch video sounds like every YC hardware demo from the last 18 months. Get a weirder narrator, you have a weird enough product.
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Sinéad Byrne3h ago
Who's hiring on the firmware side? I have a brilliant embedded eng in Lisbon who ships and doesn't tweet about it.
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SlashVibe is a handheld hardware controller that sits beside your monitor and gives you one place to watch, steer, and talk to the AI coding agents already running on your computer. It works alongside supported AI agents and tools in your existing terminal or IDE, adding a dedicated display, voice input, and physical controls rather than supplying or replacing the model itself. Compatibility at launch spans more than 20 agents including Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Kiro, Qwen, Kimi, and others , which positions it for developers who are now juggling several concurrent agent sessions and losing track of which one is waiting on them. The device pairs a 3.96-inch LCD display connected to the computer by USB-C with a detachable 2.4GHz wireless controller that uses Kailh ultra-low-profile mechanical switches and a two-axis joystick . A glance at the screen shows which sessions are running, done, or waiting on input, selecting a session brings its window to the front on your main machine, and permission prompts or multiple-choice options can be approved directly on the hardware. Dual MEMS microphones and voice software are built in, and pressing the record button is ready to capture audio in under 100 milliseconds , with the same dictation also usable for emails and notes. A developer SDK lets users connect agents that are not yet supported or design their own dashboards for the display. This launch marks the lead-up to a Kickstarter campaign on October 27, with first units expected to begin shipping in March 2027 and software offered as a free plan plus optional $8 and $14 monthly tiers for heavier cloud dictation and storage use. The company, also known as 自然映射, is a Shenzhen seed-stage team led by co-founder and CEO Brian with co-founder Luo Danbin, drawing on prior experience from ByteDance, Anker, Huawei, and Apple.
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The hero shot in the tweet is doing a lot of heavy lifting but I need to see the latency on that agent-switch flick. If it feels like a laggy Elgato Stream Deck I'm out.
Nobody is talking about the fulfillment side. Who's doing your injection molding, where are units warehoused, and are you drop-shipping from Shenzhen or holding stock stateside?
This is almost certainly the last hardware product designed by humans without an agent in the loop. Next year's version writes its own firmware and ships itself.
ok wait, a physical knob for agents is actually the unlock I didn't know I needed. If you ship a developer SDK before December I will buy three.
Tagline rewrite, no charge: 'Grab your agents by the dial.' You can thank me by sending me a unit in matte black.
Mic-enabled device plus agent credentials plus 'speak your next instruction' is a compliance surface area I'd want to understand. Where does the audio get processed and is there an EU data residency story?
Is the firmware open? Can I write my own agent adapters, or am I locked to whatever integrations ship on day one? Docs link would be clutch.
Curious whether the agent-switching uses a learned intent classifier or just explicit routing. Smells like the latter from the demo, which is fine, just say it.
Reminds me of the early Rabbit energy but with an actual job to do. If the switching UX nails what Raycast did for keyboards, this has legs.
Been prototyping something adjacent in my garage, 3 weeks from launching mine. Genuinely curious how you landed on the puck form factor vs a slider.
Pacing on this launch is tighter than the last five hardware drops in this category. Clean thread, one product shot, no 14-tweet manifesto, chef's kiss.
hot take: the voiceover on the launch video sounds like every YC hardware demo from the last 18 months. Get a weirder narrator, you have a weird enough product.
Who's hiring on the firmware side? I have a brilliant embedded eng in Lisbon who ships and doesn't tweet about it.