openbendy
A native Swift macOS app that folds and blurs your desktop as you close your MacBook lid.
Details
- External ID
- 1364616104
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- openbendy
- Website domain
- openbendy.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4606712785037151
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lid-closing fold and blur visual effect for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
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Partial While the Swift UI shell is straightforward, reading unpublished MacBook lid angle hardware sensor events and implementing low-level macOS private window blur/transform animations requires specialized OS knowledge.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 — 715 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #369 of 716 (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 0.70
- 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 0.64
- MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- DuoHinge · github · 2026-09-12 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.62
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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