HomePlay
a HomeView-style desk pet for the Mac
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It's a little HomeView-style screen that lives on your Mac desktop. It watches you, runs CarPlay from your iPhone, and now has the whole interface: Home Screen, widgets, ten faces, sixteen apps. Free and open source.
PH · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
- Vibe coding
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More like this: all 184 launches in virtual desktop pets and widgets →
Could you build this?
Partial The desktop pet UI and widgets are vibe-codeable, but showing CarPlay from an iPhone on a Mac depends on undocumented Apple screen-mirroring protocols that are hard to implement without deep reverse-engineering.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a macOS app that receives the iPhone's CarPlay video stream, which likely means reverse-engineering Apple's wireless CarPlay/AirPlay mirroring protocol or a workaround such as a third-party mirroring receiver. Expertise in macOS system APIs, networking, and video decoding (VideoToolbox) is required, and it is fragile across iOS updates.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 852 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #458 of 853 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
- Apple HomeView · ph · 2026-10-15 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- homeview · github · 2026-10-14 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- WallGlass · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse · hn · 2026-11-09 · 120 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Mac TV · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Spatial Display · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- rejig · github · 2026-10-31 · 95 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Be My Widget · ph · 2026-11-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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