World Clock Live
The LED world clock that lives behind your desktop icons
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A live world clock as your desktop wallpaper on Windows and macOS. It shows real 7-segment LEDs on a world map, handles daylight-saving time automatically and dims cities that are in darkness, based on the real position of the sun. It pauses while a game or window covers it, so it uses almost no CPU. Free with 12 cities. Pro (€4.99 one-time) adds unlimited cities, all colors, a light theme and more map styles. Available on the Mac App Store, Microsoft Store, Wallpaper Engine and in the browser.
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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Wallpaper
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Partial The LED-style world map and timezone and DST logic are vibe-codeable, but a working wallpaper app needs native per-OS desktop-layer integration on Windows and macOS. Pausing when a game or window covers it also needs OS-level window and fullscreen detection.
What it would actually take: Build native clients: a Windows app (C# or C++ with WorkerW/desktop-window embedding) and a macOS app (Swift with a desktop-level NSWindow). The render layer can be shared, using a canvas or Metal/Direct2D drawing of the 7-segment LEDs and a solar-position calculation. The hard parts are reliable desktop-icon layering across OS versions and low-CPU fullscreen/occlusion detection, which call for someone comfortable with OS windowing APIs and code signing and distribution.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 309 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 310 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
- Horula · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Time Atlas World · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Dayside · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Asight · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- DepthTick · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WorldTimeBase · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- TimeZoneBar · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SkyWallpaper · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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