hinge
Your MacBook desktop follows your lid.
Details
- External ID
- 1364557221
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- hinge
- Website domain
- noveum.ai
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 74
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8921983089930823
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- foldable and dual-screen UI utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos utility to adapt desktop state to lid position
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and window display can be vibe-coded, but reading MacBook lid hinge angle sensors requires undocumented private IOKit/AppleSMC APIs and real-time Metal shader pipeline integration.
What it would actually take: A functional version requires Swift or Objective-C communicating with undocumented macOS IOHID/SMC services to extract the lid angle sensor data (specifically available on M-series MacBooks) at 120Hz. The application must use ScreenCaptureKit or desktop window capture APIs to stream the screen buffer into a Metal pipeline that applies 3D perspective distortion and depth-of-field blurs in real time. Handling private Apple APIs and high-refresh-rate GPU rendering requires native macOS systems and graphics programming skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 309 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #59 of 310 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- DuoBook · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Sway · ph · 2026-09-13 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Crack · hn · 2026-03-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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