HingeGlass
Desktop perspective and blur for macOS, with an experimental Windows version. Automatic lid following requires a compatible angle sensor.
Details
- External ID
- 1366434579
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- HingeGlass
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4914168588265437
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop perspective and blur effects utility for macos and windows
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 261 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #115 of 262 (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 0.62
- 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 0.57
- MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.56
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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