BendMac
Your desktop bends as you close your MacBook. Free and open source.
Get picks like this daily. Today's launch numbers, the top launches, AI and tech news, and a daily opportunity pick, straight to your inbox.
Want to reach these readers? Sponsor an issue.
GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 122 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 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
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 283 launches in desktop environment and customization software →
Could you build this?
Partial Reading undocumented Apple Silicon IOKit lid-angle sensor properties and smoothly animating window blurs/transforms requires deep native macOS and IOKit reverse-engineered APIs.
What it would actually take: A native Swift/macOS menu bar app interfacing with IOKit / IOHIDService to poll undocumented sensor values from Apple Silicon lid angle sensors. It captures or overlays the screen with CoreGraphics/Metal and applies real-time warp and blur shaders at 60-120Hz. The hard parts are reverse-engineering undocumented hardware sensor services across varied M-series hardware and maintaining high-performance full-screen graphics overlays without permission or performance bottlenecks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1058 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #119 of 1059 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
- BendMac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- openbendy · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Wobbly · github · 2026-10-06 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- DuoBook · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
The niche, labels, vibe code rating and competitor comparison on this page are analysis by Nicheloom. If you use them, please credit nicheloom.com. How you may use our data.