ExposeIcons — Mission Control
Present my first MacOS app to improve Mission Control view
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Shows app Icons in macOS Mission Control on top of their window, even when windows aren't grouped by application. Comes with multiple settings. Find the right window faster. Include also buttons to minimise / close. Free 14-day trial.
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
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- User Experience
- Icons
- Apple
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Could you build this?
No It modifies or augments native macOS Mission Control via private system APIs or low-level window server accessibility hooks, which vibe coding cannot produce due to deep OS internals.
What it would actually take: This app requires native Objective-C/Swift development utilizing macOS Accessibility APIs (AXUIElement) and undocumented CoreGraphics Window Server private SPIs (CGS/SLS APIs) to intercept Mission Control animations and calculate accurate window bounding boxes in real time. It requires reverse-engineering the WindowServer compositor and implementing runtime injection or elevated privilege helpers to overlay interactive controls directly over native OS window management.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 441 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #357 of 442 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- mission-plus · github · 2026-10-22 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DeskStag · ph · 2026-10-14 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Orbit · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Mission Boost · ph · 2026-11-02 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- justhide · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Hemmed · ph · 2026-10-31 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Desktops · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- DockLens-app · github · 2026-10-01 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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