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tiling wm for macOS. No honey, we have hyprland at home

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GITHUB · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 24 upvotes (top 34%) · 9 views

Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Building a tiling window manager on macOS that keeps System Integrity Protection (SIP) enabled requires low-level macOS system programming and deep familiarity with undocumented Accessibility APIs and SkyLight/CoreGraphics frameworks.

What it would actually take: Built using Swift, Objective-C, or C/Rust interacting directly with the macOS Accessibility (AXUIElement) APIs, CoreGraphics event taps, and private window server connections. The primary hurdle is managing asynchronous window state transitions, multi-display spaces, and menu bar behaviors cleanly without crashing or requiring SIP bypass. Requires deep macOS systems engineering expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 3373 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1148 of 3374 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.

  • tatami · github · 2026-11-11 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.87
  • Yashiki · hn · 2026-01-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.84
  • Tinywm · hn · 2026-10-16 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.81
  • tinywm · github · 2026-10-14 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.81
  • OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired · hn · 2025-12-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.77
  • SlideScroll · github · 2026-10-22 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • Wobbly · github · 2026-10-06 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.73
  • window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.71

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