DeskArcade

An arcade in your menu bar - playable over anything

78 followers

An arcade in your menu bar - playable over anything

78 followers

A native macOS menu-bar app that drops a transparent arcade of ten micro-games over your real desktop. Press ⌘⌥B, play for 90 seconds, press it againit's gone. Free, notarised, doesn't touch your real apps.

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Launch tags:Productivity•Menu Bar Apps•Games

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Pratik, solo maker of DeskArcade.It started as a dumb idea: what if I could flick a basketball at a hoop over my actual screen during a boring meeting, and dismiss it before anyone noticed? That turned into 10 tiny games that live in your menu bar, hit ⌘⌥B and a transparent arcade appears over whatever you're doing. Blow up the Slack icon in Desk Invaders, race an F1 lap around your windows, whack goons climbing out of your real Chrome. Hit ⌘⌥B again, gone.A few things people usually ask: It's native + fast and single Swift binary, no Electron, no bloat. It doesn't touch your real apps , it reads app icons to draw them; destroying the Slack alien doesn't close Slack. No screen-recording or accessibility permissions. It's free, notarised, macOS 13+. It's genuinely just me building this in my spare time, and the roadmap is being shaped by what people ask for and I'm already getting great feature requests (and honestly thinking about where the "layer over your desktop" idea could go beyond games).I'll be here all day , would love to know: what's the first thing you'd do with it, and what would you want it to do next? Roast it, request things, tell me it's a terrible idea for productivity. I'm listening. Pratik

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2mo ago

omg stucked for 2 hours, looove it

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2mo ago

DeskArcade

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@dylan_gardner Thanks Dylan, I really appreciate the response. Let me know what would you change or add and would love any feedback around it

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2mo ago

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2mo ago

What would you want DeskArcade to do beyond games?

DeskArcade launched as 10 tiny games that live over your desktop but a few people have started asking "what else could this do?", and honestly I'm curious where the community's head is at.

The core of it isn't really the games it's the transparent layer that floats over your real screen and can react to what you're doing, without taking over your workflow. Games are just the first thing living on it.

So I'm genuinely asking: what would you want on that layer?

A few directions I've been mulling:

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