HingeGlass
Desktop perspective and blur for macOS, with an experimental Windows version. Automatic lid following requires a compatible angle sensor.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 52%) · 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
- B2C
- 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?
No Manipulating desktop perspective and blur dynamically while reading hardware-level laptop hinge angles requires low-level OS window server hooks and hardware sensor access.
What it would actually take: Building this requires C++/Objective-C code hooking into undocumented or private OS compositor APIs (macOS SkyLight/CoreGraphics or Windows DirectComposition) to warp and blur arbitrary desktop windows. Additionally, it requires writing custom GPU shaders and accessing low-level IOKit/ACPI driver interfaces to poll proprietary lid-angle sensor telemetry.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 660 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #329 of 661 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
- lid-plane · github · 2026-09-10 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- DuoBook · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- hinge · github · 2026-09-10 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- lidtap · github · 2026-10-30 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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