GhostDeck
Offline Mac music player with living low-poly worlds
Details
- External ID
- 1263092
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- GhostDeck
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 81
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9797145606157793
- Tags
- Mac, Music, Audio
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
GhostDeck plays your own music files in the classic late-'90s deck layout, with a ten-band EQ and a playlist that snap together. Behind your album, a jewel case turns over one of five low-poly worlds that move to the music. Native Metal, offline, no tracking.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline music player with low-poly visual worlds for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic audio playback is simple, building custom 3D low-poly scenes that react to music in real-time using native Apple Metal requires specialized computer graphics knowledge.
What it would actually take: The app needs a native macOS Swift backend paired with custom Apple Metal shaders and a 3D rendering pipeline for the low-poly models. The difficult parts include writing custom Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) audio spectrum analysis algorithms tied to low-latency frame rendering and custom snap-together window management UI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 100 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 101 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- Crimson Player · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- EffectDeck · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- VibeDeck · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Spool Box - Agentic Music Listening · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Riffly — hear it. play it, Beta Launch · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Rmp, a Subsonic music player for generating playlists on the fly · hn · 2026-08-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Stream Deck · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- PPPlayer · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.