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Notch Buddy

Your MacBook's Notch Can Do All This

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Notch Buddy brings revenue, traffic, timers, files, clipboard, system stats, and more to the space around your MacBook's notch — always just a hover away.

PH · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Apple

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Could you build this?

Yes This is a Swift/SwiftUI macOS utility that creates a borderless, transparent floating window positioned over the MacBook notch coordinates to display system stats and widgets.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 363 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #322 of 364 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 295 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Notch Plus · ph · 2026-09-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.76
  • NotchMind · ph · 2026-10-01 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • NotchLedge · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • NotchDude · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • Perch · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • NotchBuddy · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • Peninsula - Your macbook notch remade · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Notch Design · ph · 2026-09-18 · 65 upvotes · similarity 0.62

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