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Comment by apptela

1 month ago

Building a macOS app launcher called AppTela (https://apptela.com). Apple removed Launchpad in Tahoe and the replacement is pretty bare, so I built something with more depth and honestly better than most alternatives out there (IMHO). You can organise apps across screens, categories, groups and stacks. The stacks concept is the bit I'm most pleased with - pile apps on top of each other visually, or create launch stacks that open a whole set of apps at once. Also added a shadow engine where icons cast shadows based on the time of day, which was a fun experiment.

Just launched on the Mac App Store last week, now figuring out the discovery side which is the hard part. Turns out that doing the best App doesn't mean much if no one knows it exists!