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19 tools in your MacBook's notch
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Live activities and 19 tools in your MacBook's notch: music with an equalizer that follows the real audio, volume and brightness HUDs, AirPods battery, calendar heads-ups, AI agents, a file shelf, clipboard history and more.
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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Apple
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Partial The notch UI and most widgets are achievable in SwiftUI, but an equalizer that follows real system audio requires system audio capture, and AirPods battery readings depend on undocumented Bluetooth interfaces. These need deeper macOS platform expertise.
What it would actually take: Build a native macOS app in Swift with SwiftUI and AppKit, using a notch-positioned window. The hard parts are system audio tapping (Core Audio taps or ScreenCaptureKit with permissions) and reading AirPods battery through private or undocumented Bluetooth APIs. Expertise in macOS internals and private framework behavior is needed, and the app may break with OS updates.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #280 of 492 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
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