Sunlight
The first camera-based infinite canvas window manager on Mac
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The first camera-based infinite canvas window manager for Mac. Free and open source.
PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Apple
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More like this: all 103 launches in desktop window managers →
Could you build this?
Partial A canvas-style UI and pan/zoom are vibe-codeable, but controlling real macOS windows with low latency needs deep OS-level integration.
What it would actually take: Write a native Swift/AppKit app that uses the Accessibility API and CGWindow/ScreenCaptureKit to read, move, and resize windows, and maps them onto an infinite canvas. The hard parts are reliable window control across apps, performance, permissions handling, and the camera or gesture input layer. This needs macOS systems programming experience and extensive testing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 804 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #38 of 805 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sunlight · hn · 2026-10-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.79
- phantomat · github · 2026-09-24 · 193 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- SlideScroll · github · 2026-10-22 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- photon · github · 2026-10-27 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Tinywm · hn · 2026-10-16 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- tinywm · github · 2026-10-14 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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