SlapScroll
Slap your MacBook to skip to the next reel
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Details
- External ID
- 1277444
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- SlapScroll
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Mac, Social Media, Menu Bar Apps
Description
A free menu bar app that turns your MacBook's hidden motion sensor into a "next reel" button. Tap the case or the desk - SlapScroll skips the TikTok, Reel or Short in your browser. No mic, no tracking.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- physical gesture-based reel controller for macbook users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes macOS exposes the Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) via IOKit, and an AI assistant can readily generate a Swift menu bar utility that reads sensor spikes and sends virtual keyboard events to the browser.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 514 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #289 of 515 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
- Knock · ph · 2026-03-16 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ByteMorph · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TikTok™ Video Reels for PC · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- SlapMac · ph · 2026-03-28 · 473 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Viralway · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- mactap · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Tack+ · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- NotchHold · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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