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Sidebar based/tabbed tiling window manager for macOS

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WinMux is an easy to use tiling window manager that makes stacking intuitive and improves visual awareness of workspaces. Does not support multi-monitor yet.

HN · launched Apr 6, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 1 view

Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No macOS window managers require deep low-level systems programming using private Accessibility APIs, SkyLight/CoreGraphics internals, and macOS event taps.

What it would actually take: The architecture requires Objective-C or Swift interfacing directly with macOS Accessibility APIs (`AXUIElement`), CoreGraphics event taps, and undocumented SkyLight private frameworks to manipulate third-party window frames. Handling complex edge cases like SIP restrictions, space transitions, multi-display arrangements, and sandboxing quirks requires specialized macOS reverse engineering and window server systems experience.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 422 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #400 of 423 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 141 days after the earliest competitor.

  • TileMyMac · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired · hn · 2025-12-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • tatami · github · 2026-11-11 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • KiwiDesk · ph · 2026-09-27 · 148 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • SlideScroll · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Tessera · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Wimi · ph · 2026-11-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56

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