Duoveil
An iPhone Duo-inspired lid animation for your MacBook
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Your MacBook deserves a closing scene. Inspired by the iPhone Duo animation, Duoveil makes your desktop fold and melt into a soft blur as you lower the lid. You might open it just to close it again.
PH · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 6%) · 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
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- User Experience
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
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More like this: all 283 launches in desktop environment and customization software →
Could you build this?
No Reading undocumented Apple Silicon MacBook lid-angle sensor hardware values and triggering low-latency custom window-server animations requires specialized macOS internal systems programming.
What it would actually take: Building Duoveil requires Swift/Objective-C interacting with low-level macOS IOKit or HID private frameworks (specifically AppleLMU or LidSensor registers found in Apple Silicon). The visual effect requires tapping into private CoreGraphics / WindowServer APIs or using Metal/CoreAnimation overlays that intercept lid-closing transitions before sleep triggers. This requires reverse engineering macOS hardware sensors and private display-server hooks that an AI coding assistant cannot reliably generate.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 549 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 550 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- Foldelight · hn · 2026-09-11 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- iphone-duo-macos-animation · github · 2026-09-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Mac-Duo · github · 2026-09-10 · 854 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- NUEM · github · 2026-09-15 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- DuoBook · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- DuoHinge · github · 2026-09-12 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- iphone-duo · github · 2026-09-10 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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