r/teenagersbutcode

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I looked around for solutions, but most were outdated, paid, abandoned, or didn't feel native to macOS.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

Problem

Windows Search has always felt too limited to me.

It can open apps and sometimes find files, but when I actually want to search my PC properly, it usually falls apart.

I want to search and use features like:

- Text inside files, code, and images

- Browser bookmarks and history

- Clipboard history

- Git commits

- Windows settings

- Local commands

- Local agents for Windows

Windows Search is not powerful enough for this workflow.

So I Built OmniSearch

OmniSearch is a fast, lightweight, local-first Windows launcher that opens with:

"Alt + Space"

You can also set your own custom hotkey.

It gives you one search box for your PC.

Instead of only searching apps or basic file names, OmniSearch can search across:

- Apps

- Files and folders

- Content inside files, supporting 50+ extensions

- Image OCR text

- Browser bookmarks and history

- Clipboard history

- Git commits

- Windows settings and Control Panel pages

It also features an AI agent powered by Hermes and includes a powerful clipboard manager that gives you features no other Windows clipboard manager provides.

The goal is simple: Find everything on your PC from one shortcut.

Why is OmniSearch better than Windows Search and other popular launchers?

- Free and open source

- Local-first

- Lightweight

- Designed to run easily on low-end Windows PCs

- Image OCR text search

- Blazing-fast search of content inside files, supporting 50+ extensions

- Blazing-fast search over centralized PC history, including browser history, Git commit history, clipboard history, and file history

- Hermes agents for local Windows tasks and long autonomous tasks

Links

Free and open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/PranshulSoni/omnisearch

Website: https://omnisearch-windows.vercel.app/

Feedback

I am currently maintaining OmniSearch, and honestly, I cannot find and fix every bug alone because building a launcher like this on Windows is genuinely hard.

I would love feedback from people who use Windows every day.

If OmniSearch solves a problem for you too, please consider leaving a star on GitHub.

If you have ideas, find bugs, or want to improve something, feel free to open an issue or contribute to the project.

Your feedback is always appreciated.

making a game in pygame. demo coming out soon. will have to optimise it a shit ton

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Link of repo:

https://GitHub.com/coder-arnav66/Arnav-Python-Projects

I was up all night continuing this project I started months ago.

it is planned to be a DAW of some sort, like FL studio or whatnot.

I'd say it's only 1% finished, but I just wanted to show y'all what I got so far.

I wanted to make a c project for my portfolio and also at that time i was watching a lot of anime and the windows media player had some bugs (common microslop L) because idk what they were doing it just kept crashing on ASS subtitles
(I dont like mpv dont ask me why)
So i decided to make my own media player and i did
I didnt want to do all the stuff like decoding and etc so i just used ffmpeg and sdl2 for window and no ui library
It supports just what i need (i didnt want to test 50 milion media files so i just support mp4 mov and mkv and a —force flag so u can play other files that ffmpeg supports but i dont)
The ui is minimal and there is a lot of keybinds kinda like every linux application
Link: https://github.com/SirPigari/amp

Idk i just wanted to share it because i think its cool
I have releases for windows if anyone wants to try it and i ship all dependecies and it works on clean win10 x86_64 install without any problems (its just 65M), and u can compile with nob on linux and mac, i have CI

I chose the name amp because A Media Player

I'm a Class 11 student participating in a regional-level hackathon, and I need a few real users to try my project. It takes less than 2 minutes and would genuinely help me demonstrate user engagement for the competition.

🎙️ Project: Assistant27 (Voice Assistant)

Link here

If possible, please sign up, try it briefly, and share any feedback. Every user helps a lot.

Thank you for supporting a student builder! ❤️