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BatteryBoi (Open-Source)
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Joe Barbour

BatteryBoi (Open-Source) - The battery app your Mac has been dreaming about

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Born from a fun weekend project, with popular demand, BatteryBoi has become a full-fledged, open-source, completely free battery app giving you beautiful Dynamic Island-style notifications, and insights into your battery, and even your connected devices.

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Joe Barbour
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👋🏻 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!
Cyril Reze
So nice! I would love it to work too on my iMac 🙈😂
Joe Barbour
Maker
@cyrezdev Bluetooth support is coming dude! Very very soon
Matthias Neumayer
This is something that Steve Jobs would be proud of. Fixing the errors of his legacy 🚀
Joe Barbour
Maker
@mnewme is it time to buy a turtle neck?
Sandra Djajic
What an interesting little story of how it came to existence haha I'm downloading now and ready for my next charging session ;)
Joe Barbour
Maker
@sandradjajic thanks friend. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Shivam Rathore
It's really really awesome. And the website's just incredible! I love it! ❤️
Joe Barbour
Maker
@shivam010 ya know what Shivam, I’m bloody proud of all of this, especially that website so thanks for mentioning it.
Dima Rubanov
Man this is amazing! Website looks like its done by Apple! Awesome!
Joe Barbour
Maker
@dima_rubanov mr tim Apple, please give me a job please. Thanks so much Dima.
Tobias Whetton
Amazing work @mistermeenr, great to see this brought to life in such a short time period! 🙌
Joe Barbour
Maker
@twhetton all because of you buddy. I need to reply to you on Twitter, I wasn't been rude, life just got in the way,
Tobias Whetton
@mistermeenr aha no worries at all, totally get it! Same here, been pretty busy – we almost launched on PH on the same day ;)
Peter Mick
Hey Joe, congrats on the launch, amazing animations / transition in this! 🔥
Joe Barbour
Maker
@thepetermick thanks Pete! I’m dam proud of that animation, did it take to long - yes. But worth it!
Sebastian Röhl
Congrats on the launch, Joe!
Joe Barbour
Maker
@sebastianroehl thanks so much for your support!
Sophia Emma
Great work. Congratulations on the launch.
Joe Barbour
Maker
@sophia_emma Thanks Sophia, I hope you enjoy the app!
emin
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 👌
Joe Barbour
Maker
@emin_roblack1 I hadn't thought of this use case but makes sense. Maybe I should add a panic mode that tells you to drink your coffee and RUN. Thanks so much as always @emin_roblack1 for your support.
Joe Ashwell
Epic product by an epic boii
Joe Barbour
Maker
@joe_ashwell epic boi is my shitty rap name.
Walid Ashik
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!
Saroj
@mistermeenr : Congratulations for the launch! Looks interesting.
Joe Barbour
Maker
@saroj_sahoo thanks so much for your vote
Ross @ randomshenans
I would install this on my mac if my company wasn't such a useless shitbag! Its slick as a mother trucker
Joe Barbour
Maker
@randomshenans do it anyway. It’s Russian malware 👀
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?
Joe Barbour
Maker
@philkellr no plans dude, I wanna keep this one free. But I will be pushing people to donate every version update and I think some will. Either way, this project has been a success in many ways already.
Janusz Mirowski
Cool :D
Blakey
Congrats on the launch Joe, love the story, the app looks super slick and that website jeeze. 🔥🔥🔥
Joe Barbour
Maker
@yekalb thanks for supporting buddy. Yeah, I am pretty happy with that bad boy to be honest.
Constantin Ginga
In a world of only Mac paid apps, it's really cool to see such a great open-source app.
Joe Barbour
Maker
@constantout Thanks Constantin, yeah I wanted to give back to the community. That being said, donations (via the website) are super appreciated and needed to keep this project alive.
Hua Shu
Congrats Joe! this looks awesome, can't wait to check it out to 10x my productivity
Joe Barbour
Maker
@huashu Thanks as always Hua