u/MiniCircus

I'm a solo dev with a day job, and Walyro is live on Product Hunt today.

It's a live wallpaper app for Mac.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/walyro?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=producthunters

The problem was mine first. My desktop bored me, I'd swap the static image, and a week later I was bored again. Windows has had live wallpapers for years. The apps I found on Mac were mostly gallery-first, or subscription, or vague about what happened to my files.

So Walyro works the other way round. You point it at your own clips, a video from a trip or something off your phone, and that becomes the wallpaper. Up to 4K, a different one per display, playlists that rotate, controls in the menu bar. There's no catalog to browse and nothing leaves the machine.

I have to convince people their own footage beats a stock loop.

The part that took longest had nothing to do with wallpapers. A video looping behind everything you do is a great way to cook a laptop, so it stops dead when an app goes fullscreen and backs off on battery. Native Swift, no Electron. Most of the work went into making it hard to notice it's running.

If you open it and think it's pointless, that's the comment I'd get the most out of.