DeskRipple
Shortcut groups in one desktop icon, open on hover or click
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I'm the developer of DeskRipple. I built it to keep each shortcut group in one Windows desktop icon. Hover or click to open a group, then it closes as you move on. Five layouts: Grid, Column, Row, Fan and Ring. Windows 10 (22H2) and Windows 11, x64. Try DeskRipple free for 14 days, with every feature included. No account or payment details are required to start. If it fits your workflow, DeskRipple is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 2 views
Niche: desktop environment and customization software · 283 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial Creating a desktop launcher layout is easy, but integrating custom interactive UI directly onto the native Windows desktop surface and shell requires low-level Win32/C++ shell hook knowledge.
What it would actually take: DeskRipple requires Windows C++/C# development using Win32 and Shell API integration (such as subclassing the desktop worker window `WorkerW`/`Progman` or managing global mouse and shell hooks). The hard part is reliably intercepting desktop icon hover/click events, maintaining proper Z-ordering over desktop wallpaper without flickering, and ensuring seamless compatibility across different Windows 10/11 shell updates and multi-monitor DPI scaling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #159 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 162 days after the earliest competitor.
- Deskloom · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- SpringDesk · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- DeskPile · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Clean Desk · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ALT · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Tallspace · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Thumbtile · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- QuiltMac · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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