Sunlight
the camera-based infinite canvas window manager for Mac
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Hey HN, I'm Darin. You might know me from my work at Webflow (YC S13) and currently Ploy (YC P26).Sunlight is the way I imagined the Mac working before I got my 1st-gen MacBook Air in high school (2008). I had looked at a bunch of Apple videos of Mission Control (Exposé back then) and somehow decided it worked like an infinite canvas. I even told my mom about it! I guess it stuck with me.Windowing on the Mac is so good it's one of those "if it ain't broke don't fix it" things. And yet, it always felt lacking. So Sunlight reimagines it from first principles:- 355"+ virtual desktop- 120fps, fully native- Multi-touch interactions- Guides, grids and haptics- Minimap- ⌘Tab and Mission Control work as usual- Works with your Dock, widgets and desktop- Collision detection and magnetic windows- Tiling and saved layouts- Deeply customizable- ...and much more (including agent support) coming soonFree and open source, forever.Launch demo (2:34): https://youtu.be/NSerIT8zRpwRepo: https://github.com/spacefarm-digital/sunlight
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HN · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 62%)
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Partial The UI and the demo mode (screen capture as a canvas) are vibe-codeable. The live-window version depends on private macOS window-server behavior and disabling part of System Integrity Protection, which needs deep OS-internals expertise.
What it would actually take: The live mode needs a Dock-injected add-on that scales real windows through private Apple APIs, plus a setup flow that handles SIP changes and recovery. Building it requires macOS internals knowledge in Objective-C or Swift, window-server and compositor expertise, and careful testing across OS releases.
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