Give your MacBook notch a personality. Notch Design adds music visualizers, battery and progress rings, animated styles, a pull-down lamp, and an expandable utility dock—all designed to feel like they grow directly from the notch.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built Notch Design because the MacBook notch has always felt like unused space—something we tolerate rather than enjoy.
The project started with a simple question: what if the notch could have a personality?
That idea grew into a native macOS experience where everything originates from the notch itself:
🎵 Music visualizers that react directly below it
🔋 Battery, charging, focus, and task-progress rings
🔥 Waves, flames, hair, ink, and other visual styles
💡 A pull-down cord that turns the entire notch into a lamp
⏱️ An expandable dock for focus sessions, tasks, and useful controls
The main design principle was simple: nothing should look like a widget floating near the notch. Every animation, indicator, and interaction should feel physically connected to it.
This is still the beginning. I’d especially love to know:
- Which feature would you keep enabled every day?
- What other indicators or utilities should live in the notch?
- Which visual style gives your Mac the most personality?
Thanks for checking it out—I’d genuinely appreciate your feedback. 🧡
About Notch Design on Product Hunt
“Give your notch a personality”
Notch Design launched on Product Hunt on September 18th, 2026 and earned 65 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #37 on the daily leaderboard. Give your MacBook notch a personality. Notch Design adds music visualizers, battery and progress rings, animated styles, a pull-down lamp, and an expandable utility dock—all designed to feel like they grow directly from the notch.
On the analytics side, Notch Design competes within Design Tools, Productivity and OpenAI Day — topics that collectively have 924k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Notch Design performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Notch Design?
Notch Design was hunted by Varish Ali. 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.
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