SlapGlitch
Slap your MacBook to glitch the screen or summon a zombie 🎃
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🎃 Halloween edition: slap your MacBook and a 3D zombie claws out of your screen and lunges at you. Perfect for scaring coworkers. SlapGlitch is a tiny open-source menu-bar app that wakes up the hidden accelerometer in Apple silicon MacBooks. Pick your horror: Glitch shreds your screen with torn slices and red/cyan ghosts, Broken Matrix makes your display look cursed with dead pixels, Halloween unleashes the zombie. 👻 The harder the slap, the scarier the result. Free, MIT licensed.
PH · launched Oct 31, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 10%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 312 launches in macos menu bar utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a small macOS menu-bar app that reads the accelerometer and drives visual effects. Open-source examples of reading Apple silicon motion sensors already exist, so AI-assisted Swift development can build it.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 227 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #48 of 228 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
- KnockSense · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- SlapMac · ph · 2026-03-28 · 473 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- mactap · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- SlapScroll · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Knock · ph · 2026-03-16 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Crack · hn · 2026-03-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- KnockKnock · ph · 2026-10-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Wicklet · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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