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A tiling window manager for Wayland, built on wlroots. Minimal, flat, one accent colour, spring-animated.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 63%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 103 launches in desktop window managers →
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 : 2648 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1677 of 2649 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- tatami · github · 2026-11-11 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Yashiki · hn · 2026-01-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired · hn · 2025-12-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Vaela · github · 2026-10-26 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- phantomat · github · 2026-09-24 · 193 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- TiGrIS, a tiling compiler that fits ML models onto embedded devices · hn · 2026-04-29 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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