openbendy
A native Swift macOS app that folds and blurs your desktop as you close your MacBook lid.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 55%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial While the Swift UI shell is straightforward, reading unpublished MacBook lid angle hardware sensor events and implementing low-level macOS private window blur/transform animations requires specialized OS knowledge.
What it would actually take: Requires Swift and AppKit using IOKit to read the HID lid angle sensor (present on newer Apple Silicon MacBooks via private AppleSPU/IOHIDService APIs) and CoreGraphics/Metal to apply continuous perspective warp and blur shaders across the window server. The primary obstacle is reverse-engineering private Apple IOHID / hardware sensor interfaces that are not part of the public macOS SDK.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1962 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1098 of 1963 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
- foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-10 · 182 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- BendMac · github · 2026-09-10 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- DuoHinge · github · 2026-09-12 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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