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NotchLand
Bring your MacBook's notch to life.
Most notch apps try to hide the notch. NotchLand turns it into something useful. It stays attached to your MacBook’s notch across desktops and brings up smooth, Apple-like interactions for media controls, AirDrop, volume and brightness HUDs, battery alerts, Focus updates, calendar countdowns, and lock/unlock animations. Built natively with SwiftUI + AppKit, NotchLand feels lightweight, fluid, and built into macOS. Free and open source under Apache 2.0.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Rudra, the maker of NotchLand. I built NotchLand because the MacBook notch always felt like wasted space. Most apps either try to hide it or sit in the menu bar. I wanted something that feels attached to the notch itself, almost like a built-in macOS feature. NotchLand turns the area around your notch into a smooth interactive surface for: • Now Playing controls • AirDrop drops • Volume and brightness HUDs • Battery alerts • Focus updates • Calendar countdowns • Lock and unlock animations The main goal was to make it feel native, fluid, and always in the right place, even when switching desktops. It’s built with SwiftUI + AppKit, not Electron, so it stays lightweight and Mac-like. It’s free, open source, and available under Apache 2.0. I’m launching early because I’d love honest feedback from Mac users, designers, and developers. Would love to know: 1. Does this feel useful enough for daily use? 2. What feature should I add next? 3. What would make you keep it installed? Thanks for checking it out 🚀
About NotchLand on Product Hunt
“Bring your MacBook's notch to life.”
NotchLand was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #58 on the daily leaderboard. Most notch apps try to hide the notch. NotchLand turns it into something useful. It stays attached to your MacBook’s notch across desktops and brings up smooth, Apple-like interactions for media controls, AirDrop, volume and brightness HUDs, battery alerts, Focus updates, calendar countdowns, and lock/unlock animations. Built natively with SwiftUI + AppKit, NotchLand feels lightweight, fluid, and built into macOS. Free and open source under Apache 2.0.
On the analytics side, NotchLand competes within GitHub, Menu Bar Apps and Apple — topics that collectively have 69.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how NotchLand performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted NotchLand?
NotchLand was hunted by Rudra Shah. 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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