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DuckyHelper in DEV Community

DuckyHelper sees DEV Community on your screen and, in early access, works in it with its own cursor to publish and update articles, browse latest posts, read comments, manage listings, and check your followers. It's built to ask before it sends or pays, and explains or draws on DEV Community when you want to learn it.

Try asking
  • “List the articles and update an article”
  • “Update a listing in DEV Community”
  • “Show me how to create an article”

Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud. Doing the work for you is early access on Mac.

Articles in DEV CommunityDone in 5sExample
List the articles and update an article
  1. Listed the articles in DEV Community
  2. Updated an article

Done in DEV Community.

DEV Community
Done
Updated an articlein DEV Community
Worked for 5s
Listed the articles
Updated an article

Drawn from DEV Community's own actions · early access on Mac

WHAT TO ASK

Things you can ask it to do in DEV Community

Each one is something DEV Community itself lets you do, said the way you'd ask. Questions about your screen work today; having it do the job is early access on Mac.

Ask about it

Works today

It sees your screen, answers out loud and draws on it.

  • “Explain this article to me”
  • “Where do I find the listings in DEV Community?”
  • “Show me how to create an article”
  • “What does this button do?”
  • “Walk me through this screen”

Read and find

Early access

It opens DEV Community and looks things up for you.

  • List the articles
  • List the latest articles
  • List the listings
  • List the user articles
  • Read a comment
  • List the user all articles
  • List the organization articles
  • List the listings by category
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  • List the user's published articles
  • List the user's unpublished articles
  • List the comments
  • List the followers
  • Look up an article
  • Look up an article by path
  • Look up a listing
  • List the tags
  • List the followed tags
  • List the videos
  • List the podcast episodes on DEV.to
  • List the organization users on DEV.to
  • List a DEVTO reading list
  • Look up a user
  • Look up a current user
  • Look up an organization
  • Look up a profile image

Write and send

Early access

It's built to ask before anything is sent or paid.

  • Update an article
  • Create an article
  • Update a listing

Why Use DuckyHelper?

Works in DEV Community like you do

  • Early access: it sees DEV Community on your screen and works in it with its own cursor, while you keep using yours
  • Nothing to set up: it works in DEV Community signed in as you
  • Finishes multi-step jobs across DEV Community and your other apps

Built to ask before it sends or pays

  • Built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything
  • Built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you
  • It listens and looks only while the pill is open

Shows you, not just tells you

  • Explains DEV Community out loud and draws right on your screen
  • Works it out with you on a blackboard when you want to learn it

Always there, in every app

  • Press one key in any app and ask out loud: fn on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux
  • Runs jobs on a schedule (early access)
  • For Mac, Windows and Linux

Want it in every app you use?

One account works in every app on your computer. Try it for 10 minutes, no card, then pick a plan.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

On your screen, the way a person at your computer would. Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask about what you see in DEV Community: it answers out loud and can draw on DEV Community to show you where things are. In early access on Mac it also works in DEV Community with its own cursor, signed in as you, while you keep using yours.

For example: “List the articles and update an article” and “Update a listing in DEV Community”. Or ask about what you see: “Show me how to create an article”. Doing the work for you is in early access on Mac.

No. Open DEV Community and sign in yourself, the way you always do. DuckyHelper works in the window you have open, signed in as you. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you.

It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money.

Yes. Press one key and ask out loud. It answers out loud while you keep working, draws on your screen to show you where things are, or works it out with you on a blackboard.

Yes. DuckyHelper works in any app on your computer, so one job can move between DEV Community and the other apps and pages you use.

Doing the work for you is new and in early access on Mac. Asking out loud, drawing on your screen and the blackboard work today on Mac, Windows and Linux.

No. It listens and looks only while the pill is open. When the pill is closed, nothing is heard or seen.

No, there is no charge per app. Try DuckyHelper for 10 minutes with no card. Plus is $20 a month, $14 a month for your first 3 months. See pricing.

Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later), Windows and Linux. Download DuckyHelper.

No. DuckyHelper is made by MingLLM, Inc. and is not affiliated with or endorsed by DEV Community. It works in DEV Community the same way you do, on your screen.

Try it in DEV Community.Press one key and ask.

It sees DEV Community, explains it out loud and does the work with you.Try it for 10 minutes, no card.

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Questions and jobs

Do anything

Ask it a question or hand it a job, in any app.

Doing jobs for you is in early access on Mac. Asking works on Mac, Windows and Linux.