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SlapMac

Slap your MacBook. It screams back. That's it.

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I don't think this product should be here.

PH · launched Mar 28, 2026 · 473 upvotes (top 11%) · 1 view

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Funny
  • Side Project
  • Memes

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Could you build this?

Yes SlapMac is a novelty macOS menu bar utility that hooks into the MacBook accelerometer/Sudden Motion Sensor via IOKit and plays audio clips when a physical shock threshold is detected.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 179 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #52 of 180 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 50 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Crack · hn · 2026-03-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • SlapGlitch · ph · 2026-10-31 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • SlapScroll · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • CrackMac · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • BendMac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • BendMac · github · 2026-09-10 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Knock · ph · 2026-03-16 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • KnockKnock · ph · 2026-10-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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