lidtap
Tap your MacBook lid: turn the display's edges into buttons using the built-in motion sensor. No extra hardware. macOS menu bar app.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 108 upvotes (top 14%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- accelerometer
- apple-silicon
- gestures
- gyroscope
- macbook
- macos
- +3 more
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Partial The menu bar UI and action mapping are vibe-codeable, but reading the lid-angle or motion sensor on MacBooks and detecting taps reliably requires low-level macOS and signal-processing work.
What it would actually take: A working version would read the lid/accelerometer data via private IOKit or HID interfaces, filter the signal, and classify tap gestures against the display edges before mapping them to actions in a Swift menu bar app. The hard parts are undocumented sensor access, noise handling, and reliable detection across hardware models, which need macOS systems and signal-processing expertise.
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Attention rank: #220 of 824 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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