Dockhunt
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Discover the apps everyone is docking about
Max Musing
Dockhunt — Discover the apps everyone is docking about
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Share your macOS dock and see who else has docked the apps you use. To add your own dock, just run `npx dockhunt` in your terminal, or run our desktop app. It's 100% open source.
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Max Musing
Hey Product Hunt 😸 As a maker, I’ve always been fascinated by the apps people can’t live without. While it’s rare for me to discover something that I end up using everyday, it’s magical when I do. I remember installing Cron for the first time 2 years ago—now it sits permanently on my dock. One of my favorite places to find the most essential products is, well, from other makers. Clearly I’m not alone. When I meet other builders, the first question they ask is often some version of: “what’s in your dock?” The team at Basedash and I thought it’d be fun to ship a project that lets you answer that question. It’s called Dockhunt and we’re excited to hear what you think! Here are some of my favorites so far: - Steven Tey: https://www.dockhunt.com/users/s... - Raphael Schaad: https://www.dockhunt.com/users/r... - John Pham: https://www.dockhunt.com/users/J... I hope this becomes a fun way for folks to connect over their favorite apps. Working on Basedash has introduced me to tons of talented builders. It’s one reason I love this community so much. On that note, I want to ask: what’s in your dock? Let me know below 👇
Trevin Chow
Neat idea and weirdly similar to “Fancy MacBook Apps”! https://www.producthunt.com/post... The two products need to have a baby. Seeing a dock then clicking on the app to get the brew install line
Jeremy Sarchet
@trevin Cool! Thanks for pointing out "Fancy MacBook Apps", love it. Will share with the team.
Ben Lang
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Love this! Submitted my dock :)
Max Musing
@benln Solid dock! I see you have shiny Notion ✨
Wait this is so fun an the design is so clean. Love this, great job ?makers !
Jeremy Sarchet
Thanks @gabe, that's the wizardry of @tomjohndesign.
Bryant Lee
Super cool! Awesome way to find new apps :)
Kristofer Lachance
@bryant_lee Thanks Bryant!
Max Musing
Thank you Laurie! The team put it together over the past few days, really happy with how the design came out.
Raphael Schaad
Terminal … > npx dockhunt … to share yours! Or dockhunt.com for instructions.
Max Musing
@raphaelschaad love your dock, feels like a shiny Pokémon hidden in there: https://www.dockhunt.com/users/r...
Kristofer Lachance
@raphaelschaad over 20% of the docks posted today have Cron!
Jonas Maaløe
Equal parts envy and judge-y thoughts. Incredibly well executed ⭐
Jeremy Sarchet
Thanks Jonas. It has been a fun project.
Umar | SaaS Guy
This looks great! I m excited to explore and see the docks people are creating!
Kristofer Lachance
@heyumarkhan hey thanks so much!
Steven Tey
This app is wonderful! Really glad I got to play around with it before you guys launched – congrats on shipping this!!
Kristofer Lachance
@steventey Thanks Steven!
Ted Spare
Clever onboarding UX! That was fun. Hope to see it used more. Also, I spy my dock ;)
Max Musing
@tedspare a dock of taste
Kristofer Lachance
This was so fun! ⚓️🔍
Leni
It's a great and fun way to share your dock but I just feel like it's too much effort to just wanting to share your dock cause you need to download the app or run the code. I wish it could be done in the website itself!
Jeremy Sarchet
@ilalamailaka that's a good point. We considered this approach, also thinking it would reduce friction for many users. We may return to do it. We did have a few concepts for a UI for allowing you to input which apps you have in your dock there in the website. For our initial release we decided we only had capacity for one of the following: (1) a tool to scan your dock automatically or (2) the UI for allowing users to input their docks manually on the website. We weighed the pros and cons of each and went with 1. I'd be happy to get into more of the details behind the decision if you like.
Leonardo S.
What a great idea! It's fun to see other people's docks; I've already found some great tools to explore. Congrats! I'm sharing it with my friends rn.
Jeremy Sarchet
Thanks @seuleonardo! Glad you like it.
Philip Lakin
Where has this been all of my life?!?? Love seeing other people’s setups
Kristofer Lachance
@philiplakin It's so fun!
Yoav Grossman
awesome idea!
emily Fenech
Congrats @tomjohndesign and team. This looks very cool! You always have the best app suggestions and now I can creep on them more easily :)
Max Musing
Ha, thanks @emily_fenech! Tom's got some solid apps in his dock: https://www.dockhunt.com/users/t...
Kristofer Lachance
@tomjohndesign @emily_fenech Thanks Emily! Tom has great taste.
Ryan Hoover
Monitoring which apps are being docked (and used) with a native app is clever. Curious what's next on the roadmap, @maxmusing.
Max Musing
Thanks @rrhoover! Working on adding a "Top apps" page to show which apps are most popular in people's docks. Also expanding the Twitter integration so you can see docks of people you're following.
Jeremy Sarchet
Hello product-hunters, and soon-to-be dock-hunters. We at Basedash had a fun time building this side project together. Do you use macOS and Twitter? Do you want to show off what's in your dock? Then you've come to the right place. We've built a little tool that you can run on your Mac, which scans your dock then invites you to share it with the world. Come on over to https://dockhunt.com. Check out others' docks and get instructions on how to scan and share your's too.
Jeremy Sarchet
Thanks Jayesh!