BendMac
Your desktop bends as you close your MacBook. Free and open source.
Details
- External ID
- 1364330196
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- BendMac
- Website domain
- bendmac.app
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 122
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9392774788624135
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop bending visual effect for macbook users
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 406 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 407 (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 0.64
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- DuoBook · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- hinge · github · 2026-09-10 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.55
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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