GhostDeck
Offline Mac music player with living low-poly worlds
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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.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 81 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop music players · 99 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Music
- Audio
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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 : 219 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 220 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Sonata · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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