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PH · launched Sep 25, 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
- Open Source
- GitHub
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More like this: all 448 launches in macos system utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes It is an open-source, lightweight Swift/macOS utility that listens for global key events via standard Accessibility APIs to launch or switch applications.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 882 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #757 of 883 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tabnax · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Riffle · hn · 2026-09-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- ARCFUL · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- DockThumb · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- snapdock · github · 2026-10-21 · 110 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Qesture · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- switch-macos-launcher · github · 2026-10-20 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Super Shortcuts · ph · 2026-10-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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