👋🏻 Hey friends, I am Joe the founder of BatteryBoi. 🙏🏻 Thanks for clicking on our Product Hunt page! 🤔 So what's the deal with this funky lil' MacOS app then? Well, let me tell you my inquisitive friend, BatteryBoi. was born from a tweet by @twhetton. He envisioned the MacOS battery indicator having a time estimate rather than just an empty, soulless bar. 💪🏻 So I set out one weekend to make this little widget one Saturday night as I am a party animal and launched it on Twitter 📈 The tweet now has 66k views, and had a significant amount of downloads from GitHub in the first few hours. I was amazed, this little widget had caused quite a stir. 🎁 It was suggested by @jaroshevskii that I make it open source. I had never worked on an open-source project before but it seemed like a great way to give back to the development community that has given me so much over the years. So I did just that under the GPL-3.0 license License. 🤑 ...And with that, it only made sense to give it away for FREE! - yes, not catch BatteryBoi is, and will always be free. But if you want to donate you can do it via the website 🚀 So what's next? Well as you can see, BatteryBoi has left the realms of being just a wee little menu bar widget, it now has a fully-fledged, dynamic island-style UI with a few more bells and whistles like customization, smart notification, and much more. But I am most excited about the Bluetooth functionality coming very soon! This will give you quick access to all your connected devices, and bring much-needed notifications for these non-apple devices to the mac. So be sure to share this and maybe support the project if you want to see that. 🤘 That's it, friends, that's BatteryBoi - The battery app your Mac's been dreaming about behind your back.. Try it out and let me know what you think!

What an interesting little story of how it came to existence haha I'm downloading now and ready for my next charging session ;)

Joe, it really looks awesome. Both the website and the Mac App. I have installed it since some days and I love it. You're giving it for free? Any paid plans in mind for later?

That looks supper slick! I like to have minimalistic yet very useful things in my toolkit :) congratulations on the launch!

BatteryBoi is THE thing to have on you mac if you work outside 🙌 I felt so much at ease being able to plan my time in the coffeeshop before needing to hop on a changer 👌

BatteryBoi is an amazing product. I thought the battery cycle count in the BatteryBoi will be better to see as well. So, replied to a tweet and next morning when I woke up, I say Joe Barbour implemented it and released a build. This is by far the fastest feature request implemented that I've experienced in my life. I love this app man. It's amazing!

I would install this on my mac if my company wasn't such a useless shitbag! Its slick as a mother trucker

Hi, where is your donation page link? I don't see it on your webpage (https://batteryboi.ovatar.io/). Overall, the latest version works on my unsupported 2014 MBP. Thumbs up!

This is something that Steve Jobs would be proud of. Fixing the errors of his legacy 🚀

Hey Joe, congrats on the launch, amazing animations / transition in this! 🔥

Congrats Joe! this looks awesome, can't wait to check it out to 10x my productivity

Amazing work @mistermeenr, great to see this brought to life in such a short time period! 🙌

Man this is amazing! Website looks like its done by Apple! Awesome!

It's really really awesome. And the website's just incredible! I love it! ❤️

Congrats on the launch Joe, love the story, the app looks super slick and that website jeeze. 🔥🔥🔥

So great to see you project evolve! It's a very lovely tool, love it!

So nice! I would love it to work too on my iMac 🙈😂

Congrats on the launch, Joe!

Cool :D

I'm rooting for you Joe!