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AppGrid
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mjolnirapp / AppGrid

AppGrid

macOS window manager with Vim–like hotkeys

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7Mentions
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What it is

macOS window manager with Vim–like hotkeys

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Personally I use AppGrid every day and can't imagine using Mac OS 10 without out. https://github.com/sdegutis/AppGrid (Disclaimer: I wrote it.)

sdegutis used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-05 14:34:56 UTC to 2022-06-28 23:48:56 UTC.

0122015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

7 sources
_diyu·Feb 21, 2018
That's what I've always tried to do: make something I use. The most successful example of this is when I made an app that I use on a daily basis (https://github.com/sdegutis/AppGrid) and have for several years straight. But it's so niche and small that nobody was willing to spend money on it, so I open sourced it. But I still think of it as a success because of how dependent I've become on this tool whenever I use a computer.
In Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month
sdegutis·Nov 5, 2015
I've written probably a hundred open source projects in my short professional career. But only two of them do I actually use every single day: a simple OS X window manager [1], and a hybrid command-line/native-GUI fuzzy string matcher [2] (you'd be surprised how many ways/places this can be used). The rest of them didn't serve well as practice like I'd hoped, they were mostly just a waste of time I could have spent better elsewhere. So lately I have new criteria for how and when to write open source projects: (1) when I realize that I have need to automate something, (2) and it won't take more than a weekend to get a basic functioning version up and running. Anything else, and I nope on out of there. I've got too little time and too many things to do already, I'm not about to waste it creating more unnecessary software. The world has enou
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gh of that already. EDIT: adding links as requested [1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/AppGrid (note: I started to rewrite this in Swift locally, because Accessibility API sucks without generics, and the Objective-C version is a bit buggy) [2]: https://github.com/sdegutis/choose (note: I started to rewrite this in Swift, but the Objective-C version gets the job done just fine)
In The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source

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