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Open Doc

An open-source Mac dock with app folders and widgets

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Open Doc is a free, native macOS dock. Group apps into folders, keep separate docks for work and personal projects, and add clocks, focus timers, notes, checklists, and system stats. Build custom widgets with web values and JavaScript, or configure them through an agent-friendly CLI. Local data, no analytics, MIT licensed. For Apple silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 14+.

PH · launched Sep 23, 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
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Open Source
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Partial Creating a standard macOS utility is feasible, but replacing/overriding the native macOS Dock, integrating deep system window management APIs, and running custom desktop widgets requires non-trivial low-level macOS system programming.

What it would actually take: The app requires deep macOS systems development using Swift, AppKit, and undocumented CoreGraphics/Accessibility APIs to handle multi-display workspace events, hide the native Dock, and position floating borderless windows at specific window levels. It needs a secure plugin architecture (JavaScriptCore / sandboxed webviews) for widgets and a daemon/CLI bridge communicating via IPC (Mach ports or Unix domain sockets). Builders need solid native macOS systems engineering expertise beyond high-level vibe coding.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 410 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #345 of 411 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.

  • MacDock · github · 2026-11-06 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • ContainerDesk · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • PejavaDock · ph · 2026-10-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • macOSDocker · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • OpenMacApps · ph · 2026-11-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • TinyFolder · ph · 2026-10-04 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • ContainerDesk · github · 2026-10-29 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Container · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46

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