Born from a fun weekend project, with popular demand, BatteryBoi has become a full-fledged, open-source, completely free battery app giving you beautiful Dynamic Island-style notifications, and insights into your battery, and even your connected devices.
👋🏻 Hey friends, I am Joe the founder of BatteryBoi.
🙏🏻 Thanks for clicking on our Product Hunt page!
🤔 So what's the deal with this funky lil' MacOS app then? Well, let me tell you my inquisitive friend, BatteryBoi. was born from a tweet by @twhetton. He envisioned the MacOS battery indicator having a time estimate rather than just an empty, soulless bar.
💪🏻 So I set out one weekend to make this little widget one Saturday night as I am a party animal and launched it on Twitter
📈 The tweet now has 66k views, and had a significant amount of downloads from GitHub in the first few hours. I was amazed, this little widget had caused quite a stir.
🎁 It was suggested by @jaroshevskii that I make it open source. I had never worked on an open-source project before but it seemed like a great way to give back to the development community that has given me so much over the years. So I did just that under the GPL-3.0 license License.
🤑 ...And with that, it only made sense to give it away for FREE! - yes, not catch BatteryBoi is, and will always be free. But if you want to donate you can do it via the website
🚀 So what's next? Well as you can see, BatteryBoi has left the realms of being just a wee little menu bar widget, it now has a fully-fledged, dynamic island-style UI with a few more bells and whistles like customization, smart notification, and much more.
But I am most excited about the Bluetooth functionality coming very soon! This will give you quick access to all your connected devices, and bring much-needed notifications for these non-apple devices to the mac.
So be sure to share this and maybe support the project if you want to see that.
🤘 That's it, friends, that's BatteryBoi - The battery app your Mac's been dreaming about behind your back.. Try it out and let me know what you think!
About BatteryBoi (Open-Source) on Product Hunt
“The battery app your Mac has been dreaming about”
BatteryBoi (Open-Source) launched on Product Hunt on September 5th, 2023 and earned 308 upvotes and 68 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. Born from a fun weekend project, with popular demand, BatteryBoi has become a full-fledged, open-source, completely free battery app giving you beautiful Dynamic Island-style notifications, and insights into your battery, and even your connected devices.
On the analytics side, BatteryBoi (Open-Source) competes within Mac, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps and Apple — topics that collectively have 172.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how BatteryBoi (Open-Source) performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted BatteryBoi (Open-Source)?
BatteryBoi (Open-Source) was hunted by Joe Barbour. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Reviews
BatteryBoi (Open-Source) has received 8 reviews on Product Hunt with an average rating of 5.00/5. Read all reviews on Product Hunt.
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