Chute
Drag a file, give it a shake, press one key
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Chute is a drop tray for your Mac. Shake a file while you drag it and Chute appears beside the pointer. Drop it and press one key: T trash, Z zip, R resize, C convert, N rename, A AirDrop, E email, I install a DMG, O send it to your other Mac, 1 to 9 file it into your folders. Results stay in the tray so keys chain, a Control tap builds a queue, and ⌘Z takes back trashes, moves, zips and resizes. Native, notarized, no account.
PH · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop file management utilities · 185 launches, 29 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial Building a system-level macOS tray that detects mouse shake gestures while dragging global file promises requires specialized macOS event tap and Cocoa APIs.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift/Objective-C targeting AppKit, using low-level CGEvent taps to monitor global cursor velocity during drag-and-drop operations, and integrating with NSDraggingDestination. It needs robust handling of Finder file operations, shell scripting for DMG mounts/resizing, and inter-process communication that standard vibe coding frequently struggles with due to macOS sandbox and accessibility permission quirks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 578 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #240 of 579 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 245 days after the earliest competitor.
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