If you hand your laptop to someone for a few minutes, they can still open Messages, Photos, Notes, Mail, WhatsApp, browsers, password managers, and other personal apps. I wanted a way to protect specific applications without constantly locking my entire Mac.

I looked around for solutions, but most were outdated, paid, abandoned, or didn't feel native to macOS.

So I built FaceGate.

FaceGate is a native macOS app that lets you lock individual applications and unlock them using Face Unlock, Touch ID, or a password.

A few things I focused on from day one:

• Everything runs locally on your Mac
• No cloud processing
• No accounts
• No telemetry
• No subscriptions
• Fully open source

Features:

• Face Unlock powered entirely on-device using Apple's Neural Engine - little impact on cpu and gpu resources.
• Fast authentication with very low memory and CPU usage
• Liveness detection to prevent photo and video spoofing attacks
• Touch ID and password fallback
• Per-app unlock timers
• Automatic re-lock on sleep, wake, or screen lock
• Custom schedules for automatic lock/unlock periods
• Tamper protection that prevents FaceGate from being quit, disabled, or uninstalled without authentication
• Runs quietly from the menu bar with minimal system impact.

The entire project is written in Swift and designed specifically for macOS.

This is still actively being developed, and I'd genuinely love feedback from Mac users.

Some questions:

• Is app-level locking something you've wanted on macOS?
• Which apps would you personally lock?
• What security or privacy features would you like to see added?

Website: https://facegate-applocker.vercel.app/

GitHub: https://github.com/dweep-desai/FaceGate-Mac

If you think I did a good job, please feel free to leave a star on my github repo - means a lot to me.

Feedback, feature requests, bug reports, and contributions are all welcome. I'd love to hear what you think.

I developed Weather World because I wanted a simpler, more helpful way to stay ahead of the forecast. I truly believe that a weather app should be a tool that makes your life easier, not a source of distraction with ads and confusing menus.

How it helps you: The core of the app is all about visual clarity. I’ve focused on creating intuitive graphs that let you see temperature shifts and precipitation trends at a single glance. Instead of reading through long lists of numbers, you can visualize exactly how your day will unfold. It’s minimalist, lightweight, and built for speed—perfect for anyone who values a clean Android experience.

I’d love your support! Please give it a try and see if it helps your daily routine. If you find it useful, please recommend it to your friends! As a solo developer, your support and word-of-mouth are what help me improve and grow.

In compliance with the community rules, I’ve shared the link via IndieAppCircle. Check it out there and let me know what you think!

Find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danie.pocasisveta

Hello,
I’ve been working on a driving app called Speedometer: Driving Tracker for a while, and it recently got approved for CarPlay in the Driving Task category.

That approval process is surprisingly strict - very limited UI, no custom buttons, and a strong focus on safety; so getting through it meant a lot.

The app originally started as a simple speedometer, but over time, I expanded it into something more like a driving companion. It tracks trips, shows analytics, and tries to make driving data more visual instead of just numbers.

Some things it currently supports:

• Trip tracking with detailed stats
• Route playback (including 3D-style views)
• Visual trip sharing
• Fuel, maintenance, and expense tracking
• Driving pattern insights and comparisons
• Video recording with speed + map overlays
• iCloud sync across devices and backup
• Privacy-focused (no ads or tracking)

The idea is to offer something beyond what most built-in dashboards show, while still working within CarPlay’s limitations.

Would love to hear any thoughts or feedback.

I run tile.today, you claim real 50x50m squares of Earth by physically standing in them (first claim each day is free). I gave claims an optional note field expecting little diary entries. Instead people immediately started dropping links to their print shops, apps, soundclouds and portfolios. So I leaned in and there's now a live activity feed on the main map showing every claim as it happens, note and all, to everyone browsing. If you want your project on it, it costs a walk outside. Screenshot of what it looks like right now attached.

Hey everyone 👋

I'm the solo developer behind Mac+ (macplus.pro). Up front: this is my own app, and I'd really like your honest feedback.

The itch I was scratching: I was tired of staring at the same frozen wallpaper all day. The macOS desktop feels kind of… static. So I built the thing I actually wanted a native, lightweight app that makes the desktop feel alive withoutturning my Mac into a space heater.

What it does:

• 15 animated scenes rendered on the GPU with Metal (aurora, plasma, waves, rain, snow, fog…) 
• 44 color palettes + a custom palette creator recolor any scene live 
• Use your own video or image as a living background 
• 52 folder-icon patterns stamped onto the real macOS folder shape or import your own image, and apply it to many folders at once 
• 12 desktop widgets (clock, date, focus timer, season, year progress…) you can drag anywhere 
• Little companions that wander across your screen 
• Multi-display, and it now speaks 4 languages (EN / FR / DE / ES)

 

Why it won't wreck your Mac:

• 100% GPU rendering (no CPU video decoding), 30 FPS by default, capped resolution 
• Auto-pauses when the screen sleeps or when a fullscreen app covers the desktop 
• Driven entirely from a tiny menu-bar item

 

Honest about pricing: there's a free tier (a handful of scenes, palettes, icons and widgets) so you can try it for real before paying. Pro unlocks everything 7-day free trial, then €1.99/month, or €9.99 once (lifetime, no subscription).

Here is a promo code : « LAUNCH30 » :)

been posting and getting quite some support on my guides on growing socials, but a lot of people asked me how to do the videos I showed in my examples.

I used to do this manually on my local setup, so now I turned into a web page where anyone can generate viral worthy TikTok videos.

so here it is

I built a tool where you can:

1. upload a screen recording or a few screenshots of your app

2. Hit generate

3. Done!!

That's it! You don't even need to prompt it

• It attaches a REAL UGC reaction to the post.
• It adds captions automatically
• It can vizualize your photos/videos, you don't need to explain whats in the photo or video

Link here: https://getsocialclaw.com/viral-video-generator
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First time sharing this publicly, exclusively for this subreddit.

It's free to use (limited) just while in beta. no subscription. I'll later add a watermark to the exports.

Only one format for video and one for photo slides for now. More formats and UGC creators coming later if this receives demand!

Thank you, and let me know how it goes!

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Q: How many formats does this support?
-- Only 2 for now. It's based on viral formats already working on TikTok / Instagram.

Q: Will this make me go viral?
-- Not guaranteed. That's not what this is. I post 200 videos like these across accounts. Most get 400-6000 views. Sometimes 20K-100K and on rare cases more than that.

Q: Are the UGC creators real? Am I allowed to post them for my app?
-- Yes, and yes. The UGC clips used here are permitted to be used in videos related to apps/saas/websites and similar. Not allowed to be used for 18+ content.

Q: I'm a UGC creator. Can I sell my videos?
-- Yes, DM me!

I tutor locally on the side and kept losing 30 minutes every Monday to the same routine: open Facebook group, paste my ad, click post. Repeat 6 times. It was the most annoying kind of work because it required just enough attention to not be ignorable but was completely brainless.

So I built something. It's called Reposter. You save your message once, pick your groups, and it opens each one and pre-fills the composer so you just click Post. Built it in vanilla JS with Chrome Extensions Manifest V3, Supabase for auth, and Stripe for payments.

The hardest technical part was that Facebook's post composer runs on Lexical, Meta's own rich text editor. It rejects standard DOM text insertion methods completely. The fix ended up being Chrome's debugger API to simulate keyboard input at the protocol level. Took me a while to figure that out.

Launched with a free tier (4 groups) and Pro at $7/month for unlimited groups. Also added group discovery so people can search for niche communities by keyword and get recommendations based on their location and business type.

A few things I learned shipping this solo:

• The Chrome Web Store review process is surprisingly smooth if your permission justifications are clear
• Stripe + Supabase for a simple paid tier is genuinely fast to set up
• The hardest part wasn't building it, it was figuring out who exactly would pay for it and how to reach them

Would love feedback from other solo founders, especially on pricing and how to grow something this niche. And if you do local marketing through Facebook groups yourself, give it a try!

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/reposter/klcefljmljgkojnjffjhpbmocnjdphlp

Landing page: https://noorps.github.io/reposter

Always open to feedback and a rating on the store would honestly mean a lot. 🙏

When we try to promote our project to get visitors, we post on product hunt. While that might be a requirement to have a good ranking by the end of the day so we're sure our project is validated by the community, we're not sure about what it could bring us.

Like for example, I finished #6 on Saturday with https://usefoyer.app. I chose Saturday because it is an app more for indie hackers than big corps. I thought it was a pretty good ranking honestly. But by at the end I got only 100+ visitors on the landing page and ~10 downloads from the Mac App Store.

I think it confirms what I already thought. Product hunt is a kind of circle jerks where we all try to sell shovels for people who are not here to buy anything. We are all there to say that our shovel is the best one.

In comparison, on Reddit, last month, I published about https://quietdash.com. Completely a different product. That is one factor. But also it did #20 on PH on a Saturday. But the number of visits and people who subscribed to the waiting list was astonishing! More than 1k views on the landing page in 24hours and around 100 people in the waiting list.

This post might be opening doors that are already opened. But it is a great experiment of what PH is.

If you've ever wanted to turn boring screenshots into beautiful, scroll-stopping visuals in seconds, I'd love for you to check it out.

Your support, feedback, or an upvote would genuinely mean a lot. ❤️

👉 Product Hunt Link

Thank you for being part of the journey! 🚀

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a solo indie developer from India, and today is launch day for my app, Mozy: Walk to Unlock Apps. 🚀

I've spent the last few months building something to help people break their doomscrolling habit in a different way.

Instead of simply blocking Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or other distracting apps, Mozy makes you earn your screen time by walking.

🌱 How it works

• 🚶 Walk to earn screen time minutes.
• 🔒 When your earned minutes run out, distracting apps lock automatically.
• 📱 Want to keep scrolling? Walk a little more.
• 🌍 Your little companion and world grow as you stay active.

The goal isn't to punish people, it's to replace mindless scrolling with movement.

Today is my Product Hunt launch, and as a solo developer, every single upvote, comment, and piece of feedback genuinely makes a huge difference.

If you think the idea is interesting, I'd be incredibly grateful if you could support it on Product Hunt.

Even if you don't upvote, I'd love to hear what you think about the concept or the product page. Honest feedback is always welcome!

Thank you so much for helping indie makers like me ❤️

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/mozy-walk-to-unlock-apps?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social

Launching today, so help me God xD and happy 4th of July everyone

Built by freelance service professionals who've lived through the admin chaos, RecurRoster brings everything into one place — scheduling, payments, communications, and reviews. Stay organised, get paid on time, and let your AI assistant handle the routine admin so you can focus on what you do best, at a fraction of the cost of other CRM tools.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/recurroster/reviews/new

As a product designer, I use AI image generators almost every day.

One thing kept frustrating me:

I'd write a prompt, generate an image, dislike the result, tweak a few words, try again, and repeat the process until I ran out of credits.

The biggest issue wasn't the image models.

It was the prompts.

Most prompts become long paragraphs that are difficult to edit systematically. If I wanted to change the lighting, composition, or style, I often ended up rewriting large parts of the prompt.

So I built PromptStruct.

It takes a natural prompt and converts it into a structured format with editable sections like:

• Subject
• Scene
• Style
• Lighting
• Composition
• Mood

Instead of rewriting everything, you can adjust individual parts and regenerate an optimized prompt.

Example:

Natural prompt:

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Gets converted into a structured schema that can be edited visually.

The goal isn't to magically generate better images.

The goal is to make prompt iteration more controlled and consistent.

Would love feedback from anyone using ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Flux, or other image tools.

🔗 https://promptstruct.vercel.app/

What would make a tool like this genuinely useful in your workflow?

Hey everyone

I launched PyDeps on Product Hunt today.

PyDeps helps Python developers understand packages before installing them, but the main feature is ready to install python Package Bundles.

I built it because I got tired of preparing Python installs for isolated servers and manually scrambling for the right wheels, dependencies, subdependencies, platform builds, purity concerns, and version constraints.

With PyDeps, you can search a PyPI package, choose your Python version, OS, architecture, interpreter, and extras, then generate a ready-to-use package bundle with wheels, pinned requirements, installer, SBOM, license summaries, and compatibility warnings.

It also has dependency trees, graphs, CVE checks, licenses, reverse dependents, package health, purity detection, and version history.

if you have 2 minutes to check it out and leave honest feedback or a comment, it would genuinely mean a lot.

Product Hunt link:
https://www.producthunt.com/products/pydeps

Thank you 🙏

https://www.producthunt.com/products/lingua-maps?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social The game for memorizing German vocabulary (more languages coming soon). Game uses repeated word input and the Method of Loci (Memory Palace) as a map of Germany that you have to conquer. There are both single-player and multiplayer modes. You can learn words together with other people in real time.

Hello everyone,

I would like to share VaultEx, a privacy vault app that I developed. It is completely Free for Lifetime (ad-supported) on both platforms.

What it does:

• On the surface, it functions as a normal Currency Converter & Crypto Tracker with alarms and financial news.
• Entering your secret passcode opens the hidden Private Vault.

Features inside the Vault:

• Encrypted File & Gallery Lock: Hide private photos/videos (deletes from public gallery, restore anytime).
• Secret Browser: Private web surfing with no history/cookie tracking.
• Private Contacts & Secure Notes: Store numbers and text notes away from system access.
• 100% Offline: All data is encrypted locally on your device storage.

Download Links:

• Apple App Store (iOS): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vaultex-currency-vault/id6761551955
• Hope you find it useful. I’d love to hear your feedback or any bug reports!

Hey everyone! 👋

Today I launched Slopdar on Product Hunt.

I got tired of seeing websites that looked like they were shipped straight from an AI prompt... so I built a website that judges other websites.

Paste any URL and Slopdar will:

🔥 Roast your website
🤖 Detect AI fingerprints
📊 Give you a Slop Score (0–100)

Some websites survive.

Some get absolutely cooked. 😂

It's completely free and requires no signup.

I'm looking for websites that can either:

• Break Slopdar
• Fool Slopdar
• Or earn the lowest Slop Score possible.

If you enjoy it, I'd really appreciate your support on Product Hunt today. ❤️

🔗 Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/slopdar

Now... who's brave enough to roast their own website? 😈