Show HN: Foldelight – the iPhone Duo folding effect the MacBook was owed
I know the effect makes more sense on the iPhone Duo because of the dual screen, but I wanted something similar on the MacBook: the lid looks like a portal to the real screen. The only app I found that does this charges for it, so it felt like a good thing to ask Astra to build, and I made it OSS. Visual improvements or feature ideas are welcome.
Discussion Highlights (8 comments)
leftwinglautus
I don't understand the appeal for this and why people want to bring this to devices where it doesn't make sense. For the Duo it makes sense since you're moving between two panes of glass and they want to show the effect that youre just transitioning to a bigger pane of glass, same content but expanded. Here i dont get it
swiftcoder
It's a very pretty effect.
lightingthedark
The animation doesn't work for me with Firefox on Android. The laptop is totally missing and instead it just shows a static image of a logon screen. I was very confused until I tried it in Chrome.
thehodge
I like this, very silly :)
rolymath
I didn't download it, but if the animation is exactly like it is on the site, then that is not accurate. I wish I had the design chops to explain what the issue is, but all I can say is on the iphone it looks like the phone moves around the screen, while here it looks like the screen has some sort of 'standing up' effect. Like it kinds skews or something.
altairprime
> Built with GPT-6 Astra. AGPL-3.0. The AI-generated code has no copyright (which is only assigned to human works) and so, presumably, this is largely public domain?
huydotnet
Did not install the app but it looks cool. But I was wondering, how does the app can hijack macOS login screen like in the demo? is it even possible?
xnx
Hard to make the effect work on a laptop because the final position of the physical screen is not known.