Built an AI overlay that disappears on screen share — one Win32 API call, C++, and a week of evenings
Built this after getting frustrated during technical interviews — an AI assistant that's literally invisible on screen share
I kept wondering why there wasn't a clean way to have a personal reference window open during video calls without it being visible on screen.
Then I found out about SetWindowDisplayAffinity — a Windows API that lets you exclude a window from all capture. OBS, Zoom, Teams, Google Meet — none of them pick it up. The window exists on your screen, nowhere else.
Spent a week building an overlay on top of it. Floating AI assistant. Only you can see it. That's the whole thing.
Shipped it at www.unviewable.online.
For anyone curious about the tech — it's C++ with CMake, the magic is literally one Win32 API call. Windows has had this since Windows 10 2004 and barely anyone talks about it. Wild.
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