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!
Congratulations on the launch! It's truly amazing to see how a casual weekend project has blossomed into a full-blown app. My Mac is especially grateful for this achievement 😉 Keep up the fantastic work, Joe! 👏
That looks supper slick! I like to have minimalistic yet very useful things in my toolkit :) congratulations on the launch!
"I'm really impressed with the insights that BatteryBoi provides into my battery usage. It's helped me to be more mindful of how I'm using my phone
"This is a great open-source battery app! I'm glad the developer decided to make it free
Love the Dynamic Island-style notifications! They're so much more informative and visually appealing than the standard battery notifications
BatteryBoi helps us stay charged up! What inspired you to develop this battery optimization solution?
I'm curious about BatteryBoi's compatibility with different devices. Does it support both mobile and laptops?
BatteryBoi's design is user-friendly. Can you explain how it provides real-time battery insights?
Congratulations on BatteryBoi! How does it address the common challenges of battery degradation?
Congrats Joe! this looks awesome, can't wait to check it out to 10x my productivity
