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BatteryBoi (Open-Source)
p/batteryboiThe battery app your Mac's been dreaming about.
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Joe Barbour

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

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Joe Barbour
BatteryBoi (Open-Source)

BatteryBoi (Open-Source)

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1yr ago

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
Joe Barbour
BatteryBoi (Open-Source)

BatteryBoi (Open-Source)

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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!
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1yr ago
Cyril Reze
Cyril Reze
So nice! I would love it to work too on my iMac 🙈😂
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@cyrezdev Bluetooth support is coming dude! Very very soon
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1yr ago
Matthias Neumayer
Matthias Neumayer

Branding5 - AI Marketing Intelligence

This is something that Steve Jobs would be proud of. Fixing the errors of his legacy 🚀
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@mnewme is it time to buy a turtle neck?
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1yr ago
Sandra Djajic
Sandra Djajic

Chatbase

What an interesting little story of how it came to existence haha I'm downloading now and ready for my next charging session ;)
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@sandradjajic thanks friend. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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1yr ago
Shivam Rathore
Shivam Rathore

Beautiful 100+ AI generated Images

It's really really awesome. And the website's just incredible! I love it! ❤️
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@shivam010 ya know what Shivam, I’m bloody proud of all of this, especially that website so thanks for mentioning it.
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1yr ago
Dima Rubanov
Dima Rubanov

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Man this is amazing! Website looks like its done by Apple! Awesome!
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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BatteryBoi (Open-Source)

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@dima_rubanov mr tim Apple, please give me a job please. Thanks so much Dima.
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1yr ago
Tobias Whetton
Tobias Whetton
Supernotes

Supernotes

Amazing work @mistermeenr, great to see this brought to life in such a short time period! 🙌
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@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,
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1yr ago
Tobias Whetton
Tobias Whetton
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Supernotes

@mistermeenr aha no worries at all, totally get it! Same here, been pretty busy – we almost launched on PH on the same day ;)
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1yr ago
Peter Mick
Peter Mick
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ConfettiTherapy.com

Hey Joe, congrats on the launch, amazing animations / transition in this! 🔥
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@thepetermick thanks Pete! I’m dam proud of that animation, did it take to long - yes. But worth it!
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1yr ago
Sebastian Röhl
Sebastian Röhl
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WinDiary

Congrats on the launch, Joe!
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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BatteryBoi (Open-Source)

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@sebastianroehl thanks so much for your support!
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1yr ago
Sophia Emma
Sophia Emma
Great work. Congratulations on the launch.
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@sophia_emma Thanks Sophia, I hope you enjoy the app!
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1yr ago
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emin

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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 👌
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@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.
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1yr ago
Joe Ashwell
Joe Ashwell
Epic product by an epic boii
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@joe_ashwell epic boi is my shitty rap name.
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1yr ago
Walid Ashik
Walid Ashik
WhiteSpace

WhiteSpace

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!
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1yr ago
Saroj
Saroj
@mistermeenr : Congratulations for the launch! Looks interesting.
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@saroj_sahoo thanks so much for your vote
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1yr ago
Ross @ randomshenans
Ross @ randomshenans
I would install this on my mac if my company wasn't such a useless shitbag! Its slick as a mother trucker
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@randomshenans do it anyway. It’s Russian malware 👀
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1yr ago
Philipp Keller
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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?
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
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@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.
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1yr ago
Janusz Mirowski
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Cool :D
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1yr ago
Blakey
Blakey
Tag Parrot

Tag Parrot

Congrats on the launch Joe, love the story, the app looks super slick and that website jeeze. 🔥🔥🔥
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@yekalb thanks for supporting buddy. Yeah, I am pretty happy with that bad boy to be honest.
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1yr ago
Constantin Ginga
Constantin Ginga

Buy a Pixel

In a world of only Mac paid apps, it's really cool to see such a great open-source app.
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@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.
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1yr ago
Hua Shu
Hua Shu
Typogram

Typogram

Congrats Joe! this looks awesome, can't wait to check it out to 10x my productivity
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1yr ago
Joe Barbour
Joe Barbour
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@huashu Thanks as always Hua
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