foldelight
A native macOS folding-glass effect controlled by the MacBook lid.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 22 upvotes (top 36%) · 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
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 283 launches in desktop environment and customization software →
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 : 2354 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #811 of 2355 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 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 0.71
- 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 0.65
- Wobbly · github · 2026-10-06 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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