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Your MacBook desktop follows your lid.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 74 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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 : 744 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #166 of 745 (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
- foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Crack · hn · 2026-03-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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