LidBendy
Make your MacBook display bend with the lid
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LidBendy turns the physical motion of your MacBook lid into a live desktop effect. As you close the lid, your actual desktop bends, blurs and shades toward the hinge in real time. It uses the MacBook’s lid-angle sensor and Metal rendering - no prerecorded animation or fake transition. Built as a lightweight native macOS utility.
PH · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
No Accessing undocumented Apple private APIs for internal lid angle sensors (e.g., IOHIDEventSystem) combined with low-level Metal shaders to distort the live desktop compositor requires specialized macOS systems and graphics engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires reverse-engineering private IOKit / IOHID Apple Silicon sensor registers to continuously read the hinge angle without root, alongside capturing live display buffer streams and applying non-linear 3D mesh deformation shaders via Apple Metal. A developer needs deep expertise in low-level macOS internals, undocumented system frameworks, and high-performance GPU programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 535 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #457 of 536 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sway · ph · 2026-09-13 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- lidtap · github · 2026-10-30 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- hinge · github · 2026-09-10 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- BendMac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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