glassdesk-open-source
GlassDesk Windows 11 glass Dock and launcher. Apache-2.0 source snapshots for 1.2.2 and 1.3.1.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 12, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 78%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial A launcher UI is simple, but achieving native Windows 11 Acrylic/Mica visual blur effects and accurate shell integration requires low-level Win32/C++ system APIs.
What it would actually take: Requires C++/C# desktop programming using Windows SDK, WinUI 3, or WPF with native P/Invoke calls to undocumented DWM (Desktop Window Manager) APIs for blur/backdrop effects. It must handle shell process hooks, multi-monitor DPI scaling, and custom window hit-testing. This requires solid systems-level Windows API programming knowledge rather than typical web/CRUD development.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 134 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #113 of 135 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 295 days after the earliest competitor.
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- External ID
- 1415148649
- Company
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- Product
- glassdesk-open-source
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
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- Upvotes percentile
- 0.22
- All tags
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- AI summary
- desktop dock and application launcher for windows 11
- Manually corrected
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