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Dynamic Mac desktop
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Haotian Zheng

Hourglass - Dynamic Mac desktop

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Hourglass reinvents your desktop experience with beautiful rotating conical gradients that moves like a clock and optional texts that provides additional info, including current time, next calendar event, weather forecast, and now playing.

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James Joohun
Looks interesting. How long did this take?
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@james_joohun Hi James! Are you referring to how long will the clock complete a cycle or how long did it take to develop? For a cycle, it will rotates 360 degrees every minute, and for development, roughly a month. Hope this helps!
Stas Kulesh
This is just lovely. Would love an ability to a) slow it down b) somehow simply show the minutes and hours, so it's super minimal! Thanks!
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@stas_kulesh Thanks Stas! Slowing down would be a great feature request! And for only showing minutes and hours, you can toggle unwanted corners in the layout tab :-)
Craig Paterson
Really nice, thank you. It would be nice to be able to choose a secondary screen to display on. Currently, only on the main screen, or all screens.
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@craigcpaterson Yes, that is the current design, but I do agree a more fine-grain control on display will be great and I will look into it!
Craig Paterson
Awesome, thank you
Joe Norton
Very sleek!
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@joe_norton_helium Thank you Joe!
lindelof
Looks great. Is there any to change the font or change the temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit?
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@lindelof Hi! Currently the font is hard coded to be IBM Plex (might change this later 🤔), and for temperature I believe it follows the system locale (System Preference - Language and Region), once you set it to be Fahrenheit, Hourglass will show in F instead of C. Hope this helps!
Zui Chen
This is cute! How much memory would it take?
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@zui_chen should be around 40-80MB depending on the number of monitors :-)
Bartek Jagniątkowski
Great work, brings back the memories of tweaking LiteStep themes ages ago 😏 For some reason, though, it shows time in 12h format even I have the system set to 24h. Also I would love to see some theming options, like setting the colors to what I want instead of forecasting thing you have right now in place. The Autumn is coming and it’s gonna look like shit most of the times 😁
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@bartek_jagniatkowski thanks! I will look into the issue you mentioned and thanks for suggestions!
Bertie IP
Very peaceful! Looks really great. Congratulations, @justzht 🚀
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@bertie Thanks Bertie! 😇
Iman Dolatkia
awesome
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@iman_dolatkia Thank you Iman!
Sam Twist
Congrats on the launch! Would love to see other dynamic designs in the future :)
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@samtwist Thank you Sam! I do have other designs in planning and stay tuned! 🤩
Ranu Firman
Nice and awesome
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@nanu_firman Thanks Ranu!
Jon
Creative! Never though of it. Thank you!
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@dlwlrma_kr Thanks! 🤩
Amber Sean
Love the concept, sounds interesting. Congrats on the launch!
Damjanski
<3
Addison James
Cool app! Only complaint is it looks low res on a 5k display. Could be great to have custom color options and custom font options.
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@addisonjames Thanks! Custom font support is in the works :-)
ade wale
Nice Thanks
David Smethy
Wow, this looks awesome. Really enjoying it so far. Great job and congrats! @justzht
Haotian Zheng
Maker
@dsmethy Thanks David! 🥳
Ria Egorov
i love it, the product looks nice!
Antwan
The gradient angle should be the hour hand and depend on the time it is.
Chaitanya Mittal
i love this