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Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar
- sosuke 6mo agoUnrelated to the app but I dig your website design.
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoThanks!
- subdomain 6mo agoSeems really useful -- I love the website design!
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoI'm very glad you like it! Thanks!
- vivid242 6mo agoLovely! Would appreciate a release via the App Store / notarization or so… is there a newsletter so I could get notified?
- woadwarrior01 6mo agoThis reminds of a similar windows shareware system tray app from ~25 years ago called Genius.
- jofzar 6mo agoInterestingly to me this is what raycast actually is for me now. Most of my common workflows are just raycast keybinds now or quickly typed in. An example is I have my airpods bound to ctrl+alt+b to connect via Bluetooth. This is to have it yank back control from my android phone.
- nehal3m 6mo agoHmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.
- xattt 6mo agoThere are only two donors, and one of them sounds like an Amazon review?
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoThe donors are 100% real, early supporters of the app.
- menno-sh 6mo agoI'm getting an invalid SSL certificate too to complete the bingo card
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoThe SSL certificate is issued through Cloudflare. What issues are you having?
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoUnderstandable! This is a pre-release of the app. You can come back later when everything is in place and the app is officially released, signed and notarized :)
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- ctmnt 6mo agoThis looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month, and the yearly developer account fee seems minor in comparison Also, it’s just such a bad security precedent. This page describes the error you get as “the typical macOS Gatekeeper warning”, as though it were just another piece of corporate silliness, like clicking through a EULA.
- 71bw 6mo agoThe truth is that Gatekeeper should go the way of the devil. It is my machine and I paid for it, why does the OS care about what I do with it? The only thing this leads to is making sure your customers grow into good little lemmings.
- newsclues 6mo agoI want to be a power user on my Mac, I don’t want my mom’s Mac to function like my devbox. People like and need the apple sandbox. Others need an unlocked *nix machines
- TeMPOraL 6mo agoIt's fine as long as both exist and third parties are not allowed to know which one you're running. Otherwise, you have banks and MAFIAA and others off-loading their own security and compliance costs to users by flat out discriminating based on the status of the sandbox.
- 71bw 6mo agoExactly. We won't have "hardware integrity" and other such freedom-limiting factors going the way of the dodo anytime soon if we keep handing the organizations trying to estabilish those systems ourselves lubed and ready to go.
- apples_oranges 6mo agoNice, but, and this is not personal, I would not trust this app with my computer internals. Probably also asks for sudo from time to time.. but I might ask Claude to make something similar for myself.. (sorry but just being honest)
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoUnderstandable. Yes, it asks for sudo from time to time, but it is designed to be as safe as possible in what it does.
- vladde 6mo agothe website design is cool as h*ck
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoThanks!
- gsibble 6mo agoYeah, I'm not trusting some app like that randomly on my computer.
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoUnderstandable! You can come back later when everything is in place and the app is officially released, signed and notarized :)
- qn9n 6mo agoThis is cool but most of this stuff for me is just set and forget, I rarely need to change those things so frequently I need it in my menu bar.
- RicDan 6mo agoInteresting how posts like these seem to be catapulted to #1 spot so quickly
- geerlingguy 6mo agoAlong with a number of posts praising the "website design". Besides novel designs (I think of Acko.net) it's not often I see comments on that here.
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoAs the original poster and creator I am actually a little surprised, too!
- pieterhg 6mo agoAwesome. Can you add extra bright mode like Vivid? I'd love to get rid of Vivid cause it's so buggy and never re-enables after I close my MacBook Pro
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoI'm glad you like it! I might consider adding this in a future release, although at this point I'm focusing on keeping the app's footprint minimal, so every feature addition has to be carefully considered :)
- antryu 6mo agoThe pricing debate is interesting. I'm running a similar service and found that giving away as much as possible for free helps build initial trust — getting people to actually try it once is the hardest part. Pre-release feedback from the community is definitely valuable though. I didn't know this part is the most diffcult.
- fouc 6mo agoin your "demo" image the menu bar is completely missing.. this seems like a very confusing choice. I can barely make out the menu bar icon against the background image.
- alsetmusic 6mo agoI get that there's a market to put command line preferences in a GUI wrapper, but wasn't HN going to limit posts from new accounts? Oh, it's not in Show HN. They found a loophole. Meanwhile, I'm running Claude Code and asking it to make me stupid bespoke things that only I want and I'm not spamming the internet with those tools because they aren't novel or useful for most people and you can have Claude Code build a version for the way that you work. Go away, green accounts. Everyone is pretty tired of your presence.
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoNot really just command line preferences. The app has many more features that use native macOS APIs. But thanks for your comment!
- fredoliveira 6mo ago> Go away, green accounts. Everyone is pretty tired of your presence. I get the frustration with the overload of new vibe-coded tools, but this particular attitude towards new people - can we not?
- alsetmusic 6mo agoI have no issue with new users contributing to thoughtful conversations. People spamming vibe-coded apps are not that. Firm pushback is appropriate, just as with OSS projects rejecting AI submissions.
- lukifer 6mo agoCool! Disappointing there's so much focus on the non-sandboxing, I think it's a reasonable trade-off to release early, and follow up with signing later. - Website looks great overall, but the fixed and overlaid header title is awkward and hurts readability for not much benefit. - Battery Health on my M3 Max MBP reads as "1%", when System Report shows Condition: Normal, Maximum Capacity: 100%. What is this reading from? - Handy password generator is great; any chance of an option for "correct horse" [0] style passwords? I find these are preferable for reasonably secure passwords which can still be remembered or hand-typed as needed. Looking forward to seeing how the app evolves! [0] https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoThanks for the comment, I'm glad you like it! Yes, the pre-release is intended for testing purposes, so thanks for bringing the battery health issue to my attention. It is calculated from the the battery's reported design capacity and current capacity, but the reported values seem to be unreliable across different systems. The password generator suggestion is interesting, but I intentionally gave the user only one password generator option in the base version of the app - the most secure one :)
- andersonpico 6mo agovibe coded bullshit; also why is it top of the front page? are we botting votes now?
- mgrunwald_ 6mo agoI understand your skepticism, but as the original poster and creator of this I am actually a little surprised, too!
- incanus77 6mo agoA similar app in this space that I discovered recently is Supercharge. https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge I was skeptical that I’d find it useful since I can do all of these shell commands and such, but one feature I like is being able to effectively pare the feature set down to just what you need, making for a small but very useful menu.
- deepfriedbits 6mo agoSindre makes high quality apps. Big fan of what he's put out.
- heavyshark 6mo agoThis looks cool but I'd probably always prefer Raycast over this. The menubar gets crowded enough even with Ice, Bartender etc...
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- attila_miklosi 6mo agothis looks pretty great!
- hosteur 6mo agoWe no longer use Show HN?
- zarigani 6mo agouse raycast