Caret – tab to complete at any app on your Mac

Name: Caret – tab to complete at any app on your Mac
Availability: InStock
Author: ronadin

by ronadin·Feb 27, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●●SolidShip ItDark Horse

Global tab-complete for any app, but execution and moat remain unclear.

Strengths

•Solves a real friction point: most autocomplete lives in IDEs or browsers, not everywhere.
•Hands-on onboarding with founders signals serious intent and user research focus.
•macOS-native accessibility hook approach could be genuinely harder to replicate than it looks.

Weaknesses

•No public demo, code samples, or architecture details — hard to assess real differentiation from Copilot in VS Code or similar.
•Beta-stage landing page (form submission signup) gives no sense of feature depth, latency, or model choice.

Post Description

We've been heads-down building this for a few weeks and want real feedback before we open it up. Caret runs in the background and completes your thoughts across every app: email, terminal, notes, wherever. Hit Tab and it finishes the sentence. We're onboarding the first users ourselves, one by one. So if you're interested, one of the three of us will get on a call with you to set you up and understand how you work. Looking for 20 people.