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MacBook-Duo

A macOS utility that uses the MacBook lid angle as an interactive dual-screen control.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 127 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views

Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →

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

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Could you build this?

Partial The dual-screen UI concepts can be vibe-coded, but reading MacBook lid angles requires reverse-engineering undocumented Apple private IOKit / SMC hardware sensors.

What it would actually take: Needs a native Swift/Objective-C macOS app interfacing with undocumented IOKit APIs or the Apple SMC (System Management Controller) to poll the lid angle sensor present in modern MacBooks. The hard part is reverse-engineering unpublished Apple Silicon sensor keys and maintaining stability across macOS versions without official public APIs.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2905 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #224 of 2906 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.

  • foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.76
  • DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • Wokyintosh · github · 2026-09-09 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • MetalNX · github · 2026-10-27 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • DuoBar · github · 2026-09-12 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • MacViewer · github · 2026-10-17 · 165 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • DuoBook · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.66

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