Hmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.
You forgot closed source. It’s a closed source dropdown menu.
Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar
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#42Yeah, I'm not trusting some app like that randomly on my computer.
Understandable! You can come back later when everything is in place and the app is officially released, signed and notarized :)
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#43Seems really useful -- I love the website design!
I'm very glad you like it! Thanks!
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#44the website design is cool as h*ck
Thanks!
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#45This 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,…
Gatekeeper is a travesty and assault on user freedom. Apple should not be in charge of what you run on your computer, at all. Any exception to this should be opt in. If a user wants to insert a third party between themselves and a programmer they can elect to do that.
Let’s not forget when Apple’s certificate server was down and suddenly you couldn’t launch apps on macOS, to say nothing of the abuse of user rights.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
How is this better than trying to eliminate the problem between the keyboard and the computer? The user won't learn if the computer handholds them through everything.
Because the vast majority of users have no interest in learning how to safely vet apps and just want to easily use their computers and not worry about malware.
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#47Nice, but, and this is not personal, I would not trust this app with my computer internals. Probably also asks for sudo from time to time.. but I might ask Claude to make something similar for myself.. (sorry but just being honest)
Understandable. Yes, it asks for sudo from time to time, but it is designed to be as safe as possible in what it does.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 d…
>secret shortcut I see vagueposting has found its way into HN.
I haven't done it in a while, so didn't want to give out possibly wrong directions, but:
> I don't know how obvious it is these days, but the default path through D&B's website is the terrible one. They will try to extract money from you and harass you forever. You had to find Apple's own embedded form for it by using their search and going through some flow.
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#49I get that there's a market to put command line preferences in a GUI wrapper, but wasn't HN going to limit posts from new accounts? Oh, it's not in Show HN. They found a loophole.
Meanwhile, I'm running Claude Code and asking it to make me stupid bespoke things that only I want and I'm not spamming the internet with those tools because they aren't novel or useful for most people and you can have Claude Code build a version for the way that you work.
Go away, green accounts. Everyone is pretty tired of your presence.
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#50Interesting how posts like these seem to be catapulted to #1 spot so quickly
Along with a number of posts praising the "website design". Besides novel designs (I think of Acko.net) it's not often I see comments on that here.