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lid-plane

Your MacBook has the folding animation at home. A lid-angle-driven progressive blur for macOS.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 208 upvotes (top 4%) · 2 views

Niche: desktop environment and customization software · 283 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial Reading undocumented Apple Silicon lid angle sensor values via IOKit/private Apple APIs and driving real-time progressive blur shaders requires reverse engineering macOS hardware interfaces.

What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/Objective-C interacting with IOHIDFamily / AppleSMC / IOKit private frameworks to query the MacBook lid angle sensor in real-time. It then couples these readings with CoreAnimation or Metal shader pipelines to render progressive blurs on desktop window layers.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 585 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #52 of 586 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.

  • foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • iphone-duo-macos-animation · github · 2026-09-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • HingeGlass · github · 2026-09-11 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Duoveil · ph · 2026-09-14 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.61

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