MacLayout
Save and restore window layouts on macOS
Details
- External ID
- 47518630
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- MacLayout
- Website domain
- maclayout.com
- Launched
- March 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- save and restore macos window layouts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar utility that saves and restores window frames using standard macOS Accessibility APIs (AXUIElement) can be easily scaffolded with vibe-coding.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #374 of 394 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 145 days after the earliest competitor.
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