What Just Pinged Me?
Details
- External ID
- 49689178
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- What Just Pinged Me?
- Website domain
- whatjustpingedme.com
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 25
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7695374800637959
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
My wife kept getting some random-seeming notification sounds on her macbook that we couldn't identify - a little quarter second "bloop" that would play and then go away without any trace we could find.So I made (prompted) this app that will listen to the audio on the system and identify the sound. It will identify system sounds and use system logs to try to work out what caused it, it will tell you which apps were making sounds when the sound is played, it will look in app bundles for sound files that contain the sound it heard.If the source is the web browser and you install the bundled browser extensions it will tell you the name of the tab that played it.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio utilities and sound management
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- notification sound tracer for desktop operating systems
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author prompted the app using modern macOS APIs (such as CATapDescription in macOS 14+) to identify audio streams and correlate them to running processes and browser tabs.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #48 of 206 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Keybit · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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