foldelight
A native macOS folding-glass effect controlled by the MacBook lid.
Details
- External ID
- 1365848886
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- foldelight
- Website domain
- lufzle.dev
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6369459390212657
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:26 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
- folding glass visual effect for macbook lid movement
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a satire/novelty macOS menu bar app with visual effects is mostly straightforward, but reading MacBook lid angle sensors requires undocumented Apple IOKit/SMC private APIs.
What it would actually take: Built in Swift/Objective-C targeting macOS with a Metal or CoreAnimation glass shader overlay. The specific hard part is tapping into undocumented lid angle sensor (hinge sensor) telemetry via private Apple SMC (System Management Controller) or IOKit keys, requiring reverse-engineering hardware sensor dumps on Apple Silicon.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 869 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #320 of 870 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- fold-glass · github · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- openbendy · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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