bluey-by-riley
Googly Eyes: a blueberry character on iPhone that points and acts on your Mac (Mac menu bar app + iOS app)
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Details
- External ID
- 1402049780
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- bluey-by-riley
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 188
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9367516918271733
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS customization and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- companion character app connecting iphone and mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A companion pair consisting of an iOS app and a macOS menu bar app that communicate over local network (WebSockets/Bonjour) to trigger Mac actions and animate an avatar is straightforward to vibe code.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 297 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 298 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
- DuoBar · github · 2026-09-12 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Mac-Duo · github · 2026-09-10 · 854 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Bendable · github · 2026-09-10 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- DuoHinge · github · 2026-09-12 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- A delightful Mac app to vibe code beautiful iOS apps · hn · 2026-02-07 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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