Margin
Margin turns the edges of your MacBook trackpad into sliders
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Trackpad edges that change with the app: tabs in Safari, faders in Logic, brush size in Blender.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Music
- 3D Modeling
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Could you build this?
Partial The per-app UI and settings can be vibe-coded, but turning trackpad edges into sliders depends on low-level multitouch input, which is not a public, stable API on macOS. Reliable app-context detection and per-app mappings add further difficulty.
What it would actually take: The app would be a native Swift menu-bar or background macOS app that reads raw multitouch touch events (via private MultitouchSupport APIs or equivalent) and detects the frontmost app through Accessibility or NSWorkspace. The hard parts are reliable low-level input handling, avoiding conflicts with system gestures, and maintaining per-app mappings as apps update. This needs macOS systems knowledge and ongoing maintenance, but not a large team.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 415 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #121 of 416 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.
- Padrail · ph · 2026-11-11 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- Brink · ph · 2026-11-03 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- slidesense · github · 2026-11-02 · 133 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- MacEdge · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- TrackEdge · ph · 2026-11-04 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- EdgeBar · ph · 2026-11-06 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- EdgeSlide · ph · 2026-11-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- TrackStudio · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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