Nock
A notch for Windows, in 1 MB of Rust
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A native notch and top bar for Windows (Linux preview). Media, quick tasks, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, power and little animated scenes live at the top of your screen. About 1 MB, about 0% CPU idle, no Electron. Free and MIT licensed. The demo on the site is playable.
PH · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 64 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Windows
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial A small Rust app with a notch-style UI is feasible, but a polished version needs deep Win32 shell integration, media session and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth APIs, and tight performance tuning across Windows and Linux.
What it would actually take: Build a native Rust app using the Windows crate for layered, always-on-top, click-through windows, with animations rendered via a GPU or lightweight 2D layer. Media controls come from the Windows media session APIs, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth need WinRT bindings. The hard parts are Windows shell and DPI edge cases and keeping idle CPU near zero. That calls for systems programming experience and per-platform testing, not just AI-generated code.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 290 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 291 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.
- Nock · github · 2026-10-16 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- mist · github · 2026-10-16 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- tinyStats · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Look Launcher · ph · 2026-10-20 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- claude-usage-widget-for-windows-taskbar · github · 2026-11-11 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Naarchy · ph · 2026-10-10 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- quiet-battery · github · 2026-10-19 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- alt-tabr · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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