Mermaid
Remote voice control for your Mac is one of those ideas that sounds obvious until you think about the security implications. If I can tell my computer what to do from anywhere, so can anyone else who gets hold of that same channel. I'd want to know how Mermaid handles authentication before I let it listen to my whole desk setup.
That said, the convenience factor is real. I can imagine a founder dictating notes while walking to a meeting, or telling their Mac to start a deploy from the coffee line. The pitch leans into that fantasy of total control, and for solo builders and small teams, that kind of hands-free workflow could genuinely stick.
The bigger question is whether this becomes a standalone product or a feature that Apple just folds into the next macOS update. Voice control has been a native thing for a while, so Mermaid needs to be meaningfully better at the "from anywhere" part to earn its keep. I'm curious to see how they handle latency and reliability, because a voice command that fails when you need it most is worse than no command at all.