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Arrowslit

Turns your MacBook notch into a control panel.

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Timers, music, calendar, clipboard and stats live in separate menu bar apps, and coding agents pull you out of flow. Arrowslit puts them in one notch panel for Mac users and developers, with AI agent approvals and local usage. Free, open source, no account.

PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • GitHub
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a native macOS menu-bar or notch UI that combines timers, calendar, clipboard and agent-approval panels. An experienced builder can vibe-code this in Swift and AppKit, though it is Mac-specific.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 496 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #285 of 497 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Notchfy · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • Peninsula - Your macbook notch remade · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Notchella · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Macinotch · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Islora · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Notchorious · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • ApexNotch · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Perch · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56

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