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Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by newsclues »

71bw wrote: post #9
ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

The truth is that Gatekeeper should go the way of the devil. It is my machine and I paid for it, why does the OS care about what I do with it? The only thing this leads to is making sure your customers grow into good little lemmings.

I want to be a power user on my Mac, I don’t want my mom’s Mac to function like my devbox.

People like and need the apple sandbox. Others need an unlocked *nix machines

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by jacobrast »

71bw wrote: post #9
ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

The truth is that Gatekeeper should go the way of the devil. It is my machine and I paid for it, why does the OS care about what I do with it? The only thing this leads to is making sure your customers grow into good little lemmings.

So that you don't accidentally run malware. MacOS is not iOS, you can run unsigned code if you really want to, but it will make you jump through a few hoops.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by mgrunwald_ »

nehal3m wrote: post #6

Hmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.

Understandable! This is a pre-release of the app. You can come back later when everything is in place and the app is officially released, signed and notarized :)

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by 0x3f »

ctmnt wrote: post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

If you don't want your name, address, phone number on public display you need to either set up a company or set up some forwarding. If you set up a company, you'll need to get a DUNS number. If you haven't done it before and don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one.

Anyway, I don't see a problem with getting it out the door. People can just choose not to install it if they don't like it. I mean that's the whole idea of being early anyway, isn't it? Don't like a crappy bodged together UI? Don't like a lack of support? Don't like an unsigned app? You can wait until it has those things according to your preferences. In the meantime, the creator gets real users and feedback ASAP.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by mgrunwald_ »

menno-sh wrote: post #12
nehal3m wrote: post #6

Hmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.

I'm getting an invalid SSL certificate too to complete the bingo card

The SSL certificate is issued through Cloudflare. What issues are you having?

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by mgrunwald_ »

xattt wrote: post #10
nehal3m wrote: post #6

Hmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.

There are only two donors, and one of them sounds like an Amazon review?

The donors are 100% real, early supporters of the app.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Post by nehal3m »

mgrunwald_ wrote: post #15
nehal3m wrote: post #6

Hmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.

Understandable! This is a pre-release of the app. You can come back later when everything is in place and the app is officially released, signed and notarized :)

The idea seems cool so I’ll keep an eye on it, but as a paranoid sysadmin I’ll wait for the flags to turn green.
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