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Foyer

Launching today

Build a room of ambient sound that lives in your notch

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Build a room of ambient sound that lives in your notch

91 followers

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Foyer turns ambient sound into a place. On a black canvas you're a point of light, and each sound — a crackling hearth, a fountain, rain, birdsong — is a glowing orb you place around yourself. Pull one closer and it swells; slide it left or right and it pans there. It's real spatial audio, and it folds into your MacBook notch while you work.

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Hey Product Hunt, I built Foyer because every ambient-sound app I tried felt like a list of switches. You toggle "rain," you toggle "fire," and it all comes out of the same flat speaker in front of you. It never felt like anywhere. So I made the sound into a place instead. In Foyer you furnish a small pixel-art office, and the objects you put down are the sounds. A hearth in the corner crackles from the corner. A window onto a rainy street sits to your left, so the rain comes from your left. Drag a fountain closer and it gets louder. It's real spatial audio under the hood, so put headphones on and you're sitting inside the room. It lives in the MacBook notch, so you switch rooms or pause without a window in your face. I made a few rooms for different parts of the day: a bright morning office, a rainy evening, a workshop. I switch between them depending on what I'm doing. A few things I care about. No account, no ads, nothing collected, ever. Every sound is a CC0 field recording, picked for long listening rather than a quick demo. It's a native Mac app, light on battery. Foyer is free to use for real. Up to three sounds in a room, and you can decorate as much as you want. One purchase unlocks unlimited sounds in every room. No subscription, yours to keep. I'd love to know which room you'd build first, and what sound is missing for you. I'm here all day.

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9d ago

Beautiful work, Florent. The core idea, turning a list of toggles into a place you furnish, is one of those framings that feels obvious only after someone nails it. I'm not on Mac at the moment so I couldn't grab the app, but I spent some time in the web version and the concept really shines: being able to position each source to the millimetre, pull it closer, pan it left or right, is genuinely satisfying. Visually it's super clean and the pixel-art room sells the metaphor instantly :)

One honest bit of feedback from the web build: the interaction is the star, the drag-and-drop is immediate and tactile, but the audio payoff didn't quite keep up with it for me. There was a touch of latency before a sound faded in when I placed it, so the spatial sensation felt a step behind the gesture. Since the whole promise is "you're sitting inside the room," that tiny gap between moving the orb and feeling it move is exactly the moment that needs to feel instant. Could well be a web-only limitation that the native app doesn't have.

Which brings me to my actual question: any plan for other OS down the line? I'm mostly on Windows/Ubuntu, Mac only occasionally, so I'd love to actually live in this rather than visit it through the web demo. Congrats on the launch either way :)

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5h ago

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A room of ambient sound living in the notch is a great Mac-native idea. The best part is that it feels like it belongs to the machine instead of another floating app window. Curious how subtle you keep the UI during deep work?

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14h ago

I really like the way of mixing different ambient sounds using 2D space, looks awesome!

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9h ago