A creator gives away the hand-gesture control layer from his personal Jarvis AI assistant for free on GitHub, and draws a hard line about what's actually free versus what stays behind his paid community.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
A single open-source gesture-control layer, built on free browser-based hand tracking, can sit underneath both a throwaway demo and a serious personal AI assistant, and giving away just that layer is enough to build goodwill without giving away the product it powers.
Who This Is For
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
You're building a personal AI assistant or 'second brain' and want a free, no-API-key way to add spatial, camera-based interaction to it.
You're curious what's currently possible with browser-based hand tracking (MediaPipe) without buying hardware or a paid SDK.
You want to see a concrete example of a creator separating a free lead-magnet feature from a paid flagship product inside the same demo.
SKIP IF…
You want a finished, ready-to-use personal AI assistant out of the box — the free release here is only the gesture-control UI, not the assistant.
You're not interested in tinkering with a GitHub repo, a zip file, or prompting Claude Code to extend it yourself.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
Zubair Trabzada built H.O.L.O Hands, a browser-based hand-gesture control system that uses free MediaPipe hand tracking (no external app, sensor, or API key) to let a webcam replace a mouse: pinch to grab, two hands to zoom, a peace sign to reset, two hands overhead to auto-arrange into a grid. He gives the entire gesture layer away free on GitHub and as a downloadable zip, plus a PDF prompt pack for extending it with Claude Code. What he does NOT give away is Jarvis, the full AI assistant the gestures control inside his own setup, which has calendar, inbox, drive, and phone access and lives behind his paid AI Workshop community. The video is as much a demo of the interaction model as it is a transparent free-vs-paid funnel.
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Cold open: Zubair pinches and grabs floating notes and 3D objects on screen while Jarvis reads files aloud, framed as an Iron Man moment.
00:33 – 01:31
02 · What Is H.O.L.O Hands?
He names the H.O.L.O Hands system and explains it lets him control his whole screen with hand gestures, no external app required.
01:31 – 02:16
03 · Get H.O.L.O Hands Free on GitHub
He shows the GitHub repo, credits a creator named Jared as inspiration, and gives a single-command install.
02:16 – 02:49
04 · Prompt Pack + Community Resources
He points to a free Skool community ('AI Workshop Lite') holding a zip file and a PDF prompt pack for extending the tool.
02:49 – 03:25
05 · H.O.L.O Hands Inside Jarvis
He switches to his real Jarvis setup, a node-graph 'second brain,' and shows the same pinch/zoom gestures controlling it.
03:25 – 04:10
06 · Jarvis Introduces Himself
Jarvis (voiced AI) introduces itself, describing its access to notes, calendar, inbox, drive, and a real phone line.
04:10 – 05:37
07 · What Is Actually Free?
Zubair clarifies on camera that Jarvis itself is not free; only the H.O.L.O Hands gesture feature is, and explains the paid community tier.
05:37 – 07:29
08 · H.O.L.O Hands UI Tour + Setup
Walkthrough of the H.O.L.O interface controls: hands toggle, camera brightness, reset, effects, and debug/retry camera.
07:29 – 09:45
09 · Core Hand Gestures Demo
Live demo of pinch-to-grab, double-pinch-to-close, flick, and two-hand zoom on folders and 3D objects (a spaceship, a dinosaur).
09:45 – 10:56
10 · Peace Sign Grid Effect
Demo of the 'effects' toggle, the peace-sign reset gesture, and the two-hand gesture that auto-arranges everything into a grid.
10:56 – 11:33
11 · Customize H.O.L.O Hands With Claude Code
He explains downloading the zip file into Claude Code and describing desired changes in plain language to customize the tool.
11:33 – 12:31
12 · Wrap Up + Resources
Recap of where to find the free resources and the paid community link, plus a standard subscribe CTA.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
A hand-gesture control layer running entirely in a browser tab needs nothing but camera permission and free MediaPipe hand tracking, no external app, sensor, or paid API.
Distributing a tool as a single terminal command (clone plus run) removes almost all friction between 'saw a demo' and 'have it running locally.'
The creator explicitly separates what's free (the gesture UI) from what's paid (the full Jarvis assistant behind it), stating it on camera to avoid viewers feeling baited by the opening demo.
A five-gesture vocabulary, pinch to grab, pinch again to close, two hands to zoom, peace sign to reset, two hands overhead to grid-arrange, covers nearly every interaction shown in the video.
The tool ships as both a GitHub repo and a plain zip file specifically so it can be dropped into an AI coding tool like Claude Code and modified by describing changes in plain language, not just cloned by developers.
Visualizing a personal knowledge base as a force-directed node graph, where node size and color encode topic and connection strength, makes an abstract 'AI memory' feel physically explorable.
Giving an AI assistant a distinct voice and named integrations (a real phone number, calendar, inbox, drive) builds more credibility in a demo than describing 'AI capabilities' in the abstract.
A free community used purely as a resource funnel, hosting the zip file and PDF guide without gating them behind a hard paywall, still captures attention and emails before any paid pitch happens.
Objects bouncing off the edge of the screen when flicked gives a gesture interface a sense of physical feedback even with no haptics involved.
Crediting the creators who inspired a build, by name, while shipping a genuinely original implementation, is a low-cost way to earn goodwill instead of quietly copying the idea.
Takeaway
A free gesture layer, a paid assistant behind it, and a hard line drawn between them.
WHAT TO LEARN
Camera-based hand tracking is now free and good enough to replace a mouse for spatial tasks, and giving away just that interaction layer, while keeping the assistant it controls behind a paywall, is a clean way to convert attention without giving away the real product.
02What Is H.O.L.O Hands?
A gesture control layer can run entirely inside a browser tab using free tools (MediaPipe hand tracking) — no external app, sensor, or paid API required.
Camera-based interaction is now good enough to replace a mouse for spatial tasks like moving cards, opening folders, and manipulating 3D objects.
03Get H.O.L.O Hands Free on GitHub
Publishing a working demo as a single-command GitHub install (clone and run) removes almost all friction between 'I saw a cool video' and 'I have it running.'
Crediting an inspiration source publicly, while shipping an original implementation, is a low-cost way to build goodwill instead of copying quietly.
04Prompt Pack + Community Resources
Bundling a PDF 'how to extend this' guide alongside the code turns a one-off repo into something non-developers can still customize.
A free community tier used purely as an unlisted resource funnel, not a hard paywall, still captures attention before ever pitching a paid tier.
05H.O.L.O Hands Inside Jarvis
The most advanced version of a feature is usually built on top of a much simpler released version — the free gesture library and the full assistant share the same underlying interaction code.
Visualizing a personal knowledge base as a force-directed node graph makes an otherwise abstract 'AI memory' feel tangible and inspectable.
06Jarvis Introduces Himself
Giving an AI assistant a consistent persona and voice, not just task completion, is what makes a demo memorable enough to share.
Naming concrete integrations out loud, calendar, inbox, drive, a real phone line, builds more credibility than describing 'AI capabilities' abstractly.
07What Is Actually Free?
Drawing a hard, explicit line between what's free and what's paid mid-video prevents the ill will that comes from viewers feeling baited by a flashy opening demo.
Keeping the free component deliberately narrow, one feature, while the impressive parts of the demo stay gated, is a common and fair way to convert attention without giving away the whole product.
08H.O.L.O Hands UI Tour + Setup
Reducing setup to a single browser permission dialog is what makes a gesture demo actually triable by a viewer, not just watchable.
A visible brightness/contrast control for hand-tracking sensitivity is a small UX detail that decides whether the tool works in a bright versus dim room.
09Core Hand Gestures Demo
A small, consistent gesture vocabulary is more learnable than many one-off gestures, because each one maps to a mouse action the viewer already understands.
Physical feedback, like objects bouncing off the edge of the screen, makes a gesture interface feel responsive even without haptics.
10Peace Sign Grid Effect
A single reset gesture that snaps a messy workspace back to its default layout solves the clutter problem that any freeform spatial UI eventually creates.
Offering a second, different reset (auto-arrange into a grid) covers the case where the viewer wants a new organized layout, not the original one.
11Customize H.O.L.O Hands With Claude Code
Shipping the raw project as a zip file specifically so it can be dropped into an AI coding tool and modified by prompt targets non-programmers, not just developers.
Writing extension instructions as literal prompts to paste into an AI coding tool, rather than a technical API doc, lowers the bar from 'read documentation' to 'describe what you want changed.'
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
H.O.L.O Hands
The free, open-source hand-gesture control system demoed in this video. It uses a webcam and free hand-tracking software to let you pinch, grab, and move on-screen objects without a mouse.
MediaPipe
Google's free, open-source computer vision library that detects and tracks hand landmarks from a camera feed in real time. It's what powers H.O.L.O Hands' gesture recognition.
Jarvis
The creator's personal AI assistant, named after the Iron Man character, that manages his calendar, notes, inbox, drive, and even makes real phone calls. It's the paid product the free gesture layer plugs into.
second brain
A personal knowledge-management system, shown here as an interactive node graph, that stores a person's notes, projects, and connections so an AI assistant can reference them.
Claude Code
Anthropic's command-line coding assistant. The creator points viewers to load the downloaded project into it and describe changes in plain language to customize the tool.
AI Workshop
The creator's Skool community, split into a free 'Lite' tier (resources, prompt packs) and a paid tier (access to the full Jarvis assistant and other AI 'employees').
10:56toolClaude Code (used to customize the downloaded project by prompting)
Quotables
Lines you could clip.
00:00
“This is so cool. I swear I feel like Tony Stark in Iron Man.”
instantly recognizable hook line paired with a visual pinch-and-grab gesture→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
03:31
“Certainly, sir. Good evening. I'm Jarvis, Zubair's second brain, running on Claude Opus 5.”
AI voice introducing itself in character, strong cold-open for a shorts cut→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
04:09
“This Jarvis is not free on GitHub. What I'm giving you guys free on GitHub is this hollow feature.”
the exact transparency line that defines the free-vs-paid split→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
The Script
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This is so cool. I swear I feel like Tony Stark in Iron Man. Jarvis, can you pull up the free school community folders?
I've pulled up all the information, sir. You can read it yourself, or if you'd like, say, read it out loud, and I shall. hey guys so i incorporated hollow hands with my ai assistant and ai second brain jarvis now i'm going to show you a full demo of what this is and then i'm going to give you this entire thing completely for free on github and i'm going to show you how you can actually improve this because i'm going to give you also a prompt pack so that way you can add more features to this so this is hollow hands basically it's where i can move my hands i can control my entire screen using my hands without any external applications so for instance I have a bunch of files here so you can see I can pinch this I can grab it I can move it around or I can double click on this and this opens this thing further with a bunch of different features I just have some cards here like just a few notes here so that way you guys can see what this thing is capable of but you can do so much more with this thing right so I can use two hands to zoom in everything zoom like kind of twist things around right I have 3d objects here and of course I can always double pinch this and this closes all of the notes
I have 3D objects here. So as you can see in the bottom here, let me zoom in a little bit. There you go.
So this is a 3D object. Now I put this big circular thing. So when I'm grabbing a 3D object, I know exactly what I'm grabbing here.
You can flick things around, move things around. This is so cool. Again, I'm going to give you a full demo.
But before that, let me show you how you can grab this completely for free. So I've made you guys this GitHub repo. So by the way, just as a call out, this was inspired by...
watched a couple of videos i believe a gentleman named jared and then i watched two other videos as well to be honest i completely forgot their names this was on youtube so this was inspired by them but obviously i did not steal anything from them this is a complete brand new repo i built this uh from scratch but i just saw their videos and i got inspired by them so i built all this thing out now again inside the github you'll have the direct link so you can just go directly and have i've created this one command for you guys so you can just basically copy Copy this, post it in your terminal, and this hollow hands will show up for you.
And then on top of that, I've also created this free page on my free community here. So this is a complete free community. It's called AI Workshop Lite.
I'm going to put this link as well. You can go to the classroom section, YouTube resources. So I've also given you guys a zip file.
If you don't want to use GitHub, you can just download the zip file. And most importantly, I've given you guys this PDF prompt pack where it gives you the entire guide on how. to update this how to make it your own how to create additional features so that way you can incorporate this for whatever project you're using of course for mine i used it inside my jarvis ai assistant so this is a very complicated version of this but essentially it's the same thing i can control like my entire ai second brain with my hands and gestures so for instance if i throw a peace sign everything kind of goes back to normal same thing i can pinch any node so all of these nodes that you're seeing Let me go back here.
All of these notes that you're seeing, this is my AI second brain inside my computer. So it's very responsive, as you can see. So I can click on something, it brings it up.
If I double pinch something, it opens up an additional card. Same thing, I can zoom in, zoom out, and all sorts of good stuff. And of course, my AI assistant here, Jarvis, go ahead and introduce yourself to my YouTube audience.
Certainly, sir. Good evening. I'm Jarvis, Zubair's second brain, running on Claude Opus 5.
I hold his notes, his calendar, his inbox, his drive, and a real telephone line, which means when he says, book a table, a phone actually rings somewhere in the world, and a human being answers it. I also draft his invoices, set his reminders, and shout at him through a focus timer when he wanders off to YouTube mid -build.
Think of me as a butler who never sleeps, never forgets, and never once pretends to have done something he hasn't. He built me with Claude Code, which, and I say this with genuine admiration, means the man's assistant is also his product demo. Do watch to the end.
He's about to make me do something. Yeah, exactly. All right.
So again, just to be clear, I want to make sure you guys are not being deceived. This Jarvis is not free on GitHub. What I'm giving you guys free on GitHub is this hollow feature.
So these hand gestures and basically exactly this. So that way you guys can either use the GitHub or the zip file. So you'll be able to download this.
And like I said, I have that guide on that PDF where you guys can make this completely your own. Obviously, Jarvis is my full AI assistant. And as you saw it has just like you mentioned he has access to multiple different tools He has a phone number that I call him if you guys have seen my previous videos You are pretty familiar with Jarvis at this point This hollow gestures is just an additional feature that I added and also right now on I'm on Jarvis version 7 So he's getting a bunch of different upgrades if you want access to this Jarvis that one is going to be inside the paid community That's the AI workshop paid community where you have access to AI assistance again Jarvis versions seven and six and then also other ai employees like a social media ai employee and of course a community of people so if you ever need tech support or if you ever get stuck uh we're all there to help you guys out but anyways let's get back to the video so uh let me give you guys a quick demo of what you're going to get noted free on github jarvis hold on i'm talking to my audience be quiet off you go sir i'll do my best to look competent on camera
All right, Jarvis is always listening, so he tries to interrupt me. But anyways, okay, so this is what you guys are going to get, okay? So this exact thing that you're seeing in front of me.
So I have a few different notes here. So let me give you guys a full guide, a full demo here. In the bottom, you have...
Oops, I didn't mean to do that. In the bottom, you have all of the different functionalities of what you can do with this thing. So pinch, grab, flick, two hands, all of that stuff.
You see it in the bottom right here. On top, hands -on, make sure that's on because otherwise it's not going to detect your hand. You just need your camera.
You don't need any additional details or any additional tools. So it will just work very easily there. And then right next to hands, if you click on cam right now, it's at 80%.
This is just basically the darkness and brightness of the... screen here. So feel free to play around with that.
The cam 15 % means it's very dark. So that way you can still like see the, as you can see, I can point at these things and it'll exactly show me what I'm talking about. If I pinch on it, it's going to open it.
If I pinch back, it's going to close it. But anyway, so this 15 % is just the light and it goes to 55 % and 80%. So I'm just going to keep it at 80 % so that way you can see my face here.
But essentially that's how you can, you know, change the different lighting option there reset if you click on this it's going to bring everything back to this kind of default and you can always move things around with your with the mouse as well so if you just click on it the mouse works as well but obviously the best part is using your hands and fingers there effect so i'm going to talk about this in a little bit debug you can if you run into any issues you can click on debug and then retry camera so obviously you want to make sure that your chrome because this is going to be running on local host you're giving this local host or this tab in chrome permission to your camera so that way it can see you because obviously it's going to detect your hand gestures based on camera okay so that's kind of like all of the features that are here so now let me show you what you guys can do with this thing So let me move a few of these things around.
So I have these two 3D objects. And by the way, like I said, in that PDF guide, you guys will see that you have different options to add other things as well. This is just, you know, an example.
But on the PDF guide, I show you exactly how to add other things. But essentially, these are folders, right? So as you can see, if I move my palm around, right, like nothing really happens.
It just kind of goes over that particular folder. So let me actually move this a little further so that way there's no interruption. but as soon as I come close and I click pinch my finger now you see I'm grabbing this particular one right so as you can see the mouse is this side and my other hand is here so I can move this thing around right And if I double click on it, there you go, it opens up, right?
Let me just move them back around. I can open these individual cards, right? So again, this could be anything.
You guys can add your own folders, your own files. It could be whatever you wanted to add, right? And same thing, if I go back to on top of that particular folder, if I pinch back, it's going to close all of the files that are inside it, right?
And same thing, I can move things around. I can also flick this. It goes kind of like bounces off the screen.
I did this on. purpose because i was like i don't want to flick this completely out of the screen but it's kind of cool to like grab these things and kind of flick them around and they bounce off the the screen there okay so that's how you can um you know select or grab something and open it and of course you can use two hands so if you pinch two hands it grabs the entire screen you can zoom in and zoom out here so if you want to reorganize it kind of just follows your hand right here as you can see right and of course i have a couple of 3d objects here So this one, for instance, this is like this little spaceship thing, right?
So if I just flick this, you can see it spins around. It's kind of cool. And I can always zoom in.
And if I zoom in, these things come close. And the 3D stuff starts to kind of open up even more, right? So same thing.
If I just flip this thing around, it kind of moves around. Again, not very useful, but kind of cool, right? And then I also have this kind of dinosaur thing.
same thing you can just like throw this around it starts to spin around so very cool there and then if i enable effects so you can do do more functionality so for instance i can just come next to this and i can do this and the closest folder or the closest object comes next to me and same thing i can just move things around now because i'm holding everything right and I can like release my hand, it goes back to normal.
And if I just have a palm, right, right next to these things, and if I hold the same thing, it highlights the object that I'm trying to grab, right? So I can same thing, grab this thing around. And then another thing is I can also throw a peace sign.
So if I throw a peace sign, everything is going to go back to its original form. So same thing, like I incorporate this inside my Jarvis here. So if I throw a peace sign, it goes back to my normal default there, right?
Same thing, the peace sign just puts everything to its original spot. And then also if I do two hands and do this, everything kind of gets organized in a grid, right? So take a look at this.
Let me just move things around so you can see it's kind of a mess. So now if I put my hands up, do this. There you go.
Everything kind of gets organized in a grid. So some really cool functionalities there. So feel free to play with this thing around.
It's a lot of fun. And just run this zip file. When you download the zip file, you can put it in your cloud code.
Let me move this around my face. You can put it in cloud code. So the zip file that I showed you guys right here in the free community.
Right. So on the YouTube resources in the free community, this zip file, if you download it along with the prompt pack, you can actually upload the zip file into Cloud Code. And then you can talk to Cloud Code and say, hey, I want to add more features or I want to do this.
I want to make these changes. I want to change the lighting. I want to add this effect.
So that's where you can completely make this on your own. Anyways, well, hopefully you guys have a good time here. Enjoy your your fun little project there.
I also have. a bunch of other free resources here, like a bunch of prompt packs for building Jarvis and TARS and a bunch of other employees inside the free community, inside the classroom section. So again, all you have to do is click on the link, it's going to bring you to about page, click on join, and then you will have access to all the free resources.
And of course, like I said, if you need tech support or you want your own personal AI assistant Jarvis like this, then that's going to be inside the paid community. That link is also going to be in the description. Anyways, Hopefully, you guys will have a good time.
Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions. I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible. If not, thanks for watching.
Make sure you like, subscribe, because I'm going to try to add more functionalities to Jarvis here and other employees that I'm planning to build that you don't want to miss. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you on the next one.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
He opens mid-demo, pulling up files with a pinch of his fingers like Tony Stark, before pulling back the curtain: the flashy assistant is his, but the gesture-control layer underneath it is free on GitHub for anyone.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
07:29list
H.O.L.O gesture vocabulary
Pinch to grab and move an object
Double-pinch to open/close a card or folder
Two hands pinched to zoom/pan the whole canvas
Peace sign to reset everything to its original layout
Two hands overhead to auto-arrange everything into a grid
Flick to throw an object, which bounces off the screen edge
A small, fixed set of hand gestures that together cover nearly every interaction demoed: selecting, moving, closing, zooming, resetting, and organizing.
Steal forany browser-based spatial UI or camera-controlled interface
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Low-friction: the ask is to join a free community, not to buy anything. The paid tier is mentioned but only as a second, softer option for people who want tech support or the full Jarvis assistant.
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