Clean Desk
Your whole Windows desktop, tucked into one orb
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Clean Desk puts a small floating orb on your Windows desktop. Click it and every open window and desktop icon is pulled inside with a real Genie animation. Click again and everything pours back out, exactly where it was. Nothing is deleted or moved.
PH · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: desktop environment and customization software · 283 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Design Tools
- Productivity
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More like this: all 283 launches in desktop environment and customization software →
Could you build this?
Partial Manipulating system-level desktop window handles, icon layouts, and rendering custom hardware-accelerated 3D window deformation animations (Genie effect) on Windows requires deep Win32/DirectX systems programming.
What it would actually take: Requires native C++/C# Windows development leveraging Win32 APIs (`EnumWindows`, `SetWindowPlacement`, `GetWindowDC`) and the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) shell hooks to enumerate, capture, hide, and restore application window states and desktop icons (`Progman`/`WorkerW`). Generating the Genie mesh-warp animation requires custom DirectX or DirectComposition shaders to deform live captured window textures into screen coordinates, necessitating low-level Windows shell and graphics pipeline expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 397 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #331 of 398 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
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