AppControl
A Modern Windows Task Manager with History
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HN · launched Feb 10, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 103 launches in desktop window managers →
Could you build this?
No Writing a performant low-level Windows task manager requires deep systems programming, ETW (Event Tracing for Windows), native Windows APIs, and kernel/driver hooks for hardware sensor tracking and hardware resource monitoring.
What it would actually take: This requires low-level C++ or Rust systems programming interfacing directly with Win32 APIs, WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), ETW, and kernel diagnostics like NT Query System Information. Capturing real-time CPU/GPU temperatures, background device access (webcam/mic), and persistently storing time-series telemetry with negligible system overhead requires specialized native OS expertise and high-performance local time-series storage (e.g., SQLite WAL mode or custom ring buffers).
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Task Manager
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2828 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1593 of 2829 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 104 days after the earliest competitor.
- wintoolps · github · 2026-11-06 · 149 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- pagico-task-manager · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Ghist · hn · 2026-02-24 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- raven · github · 2026-10-24 · 517 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- MemSignal · hn · 2026-07-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Argus · github · 2026-10-12 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- lightning · github · 2026-10-20 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- advanced-recent-access · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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