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Stream Deck turns the things you do all day — open an app, a URL, a project folder, a shell script, a System Settings panel — into one-click buttons in your menu bar. The menu bar isn't a convenience here, it's the whole app: LSUIElement is YES, so there's no Dock icon and no window to switch to. Click the icon, the deck drops down, you click a button, it fires, you're back to work. A second entry point — a draggable floating tab you can pin anywhere on screen — opens the same deck on hover.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
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▎ I'm Chris, an indie dev from Mexico. I kept catching myself doing the same thing a dozen times a day: opening the same four tabs every morning, launching the same apps, pasting the same Terminal command I'd already typed a hundred times. I looked at the Elgato Stream Deck and loved the idea — but I didn't want another piece of hardware on my desk for something my Mac could already do.
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▎ So I built Stream Deck: a menu bar app with a grid of programmable buttons. Each one opens a website, launches an app, opens a file or folder, or runs a shell command. One click, done.
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▎ A few decisions I made along the way:
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▎ • Menu bar first. It had to be one click away from anywhere, never a window to manage. There's also a floating tab on the edge of the screen if you prefer hovering over clicking the icon.
▎ • No account, no cloud, no subscription. It's a one-time purchase and everything stays on your Mac. Your buttons are your buttons.
▎ • Sandboxed and App Store reviewed. Shell commands run through a strict whitelist — I'd rather ship something safe than something that can run anything.
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▎ The hardest part wasn't the buttons — it was making the hover-to-open floating panel feel instant. I went through three different approaches before landing on one that never lags.
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▎ Happy to answer anything. I'd genuinely love to hear what you'd put on your buttons — that's how I find the features I haven't thought of yet.
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About Stream Deck on Product Hunt
“ A Stream Deck for your Mac menu bar — no hardware”
Stream Deck was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 1 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #103 on the daily leaderboard. Stream Deck turns the things you do all day — open an app, a URL, a project folder, a shell script, a System Settings panel — into one-click buttons in your menu bar. The menu bar isn't a convenience here, it's the whole app: LSUIElement is YES, so there's no Dock icon and no window to switch to. Click the icon, the deck drops down, you click a button, it fires, you're back to work. A second entry point — a draggable floating tab you can pin anywhere on screen — opens the same deck on hover.
Stream Deck was featured in Mac (103.7k followers), Productivity (661.2k followers) and Developer Tools (519.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 256.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Stream Deck?
Stream Deck was hunted by Christian Irack. 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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