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A tiling window manager for Wayland, built on wlroots. Minimal, flat, one accent colour, spring-animated.
Details
- External ID
- 1382253255
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- daro
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3866256725595696
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- tiling window manager for wayland
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a custom Wayland compositor/window manager requires deep systems programming in C or Rust with wlroots, Wayland protocols, low-level graphics subsystems, and seat management.
What it would actually take: Requires an idiomatic C/Rust implementation binding directly to wlroots and libwayland-server, handling input devices via libinput, rendering through OpenGL/Vulkan, and managing Wayland surface lifecycles and IPC protocols. AI vibe coding struggles heavily with low-level protocol event loops, asynchronous frame callbacks, and memory safety in C graphics pipelines.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 866 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #517 of 867 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- Yashiki · hn · 2026-01-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired · hn · 2025-12-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- phantomat · github · 2026-09-24 · 193 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- TiGrIS, a tiling compiler that fits ML models onto embedded devices · hn · 2026-04-29 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager · hn · 2025-12-26 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- fathom · github · 2026-09-23 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
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