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contained-app
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tdeverx / contained-app

contained-app

A native macOS app for Apple's Container CLI

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
867GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A native macOS app for Apple's Container CLI

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 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 hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-07-07 19:57:15 UTC to 2026-07-08 13:22:14 UTC.

012026-07-07 19:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-07 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 7, 19:002026-07-07 20:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-07 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-07 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-07 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-07 22:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-07 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-07 23:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 01:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 02:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 04:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 8, 04:002026-07-08 05:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 07:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 08:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 10:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 11:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-08 13:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-08 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 8, 13:00

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

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jul 7, 19:002026-07-07 19:00:00 UTC2026-07-07 20:00:00 UTC101
Jul 7, 20:002026-07-07 20:00:00 UTC2026-07-07 21:00:00 UTC000
Jul 7, 21:002026-07-07 21:00:00 UTC2026-07-07 22:00:00 UTC000
Jul 7, 22:002026-07-07 22:00:00 UTC2026-07-07 23:00:00 UTC000
Jul 7, 23:002026-07-07 23:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 00:002026-07-08 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 01:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 01:002026-07-08 01:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 02:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 02:002026-07-08 02:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 03:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 03:002026-07-08 03:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 04:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 04:002026-07-08 04:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 05:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 05:002026-07-08 05:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 06:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 06:002026-07-08 06:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 07:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 07:002026-07-08 07:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 08:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 08:002026-07-08 08:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 09:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 09:002026-07-08 09:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 10:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 10:002026-07-08 10:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 11:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 11:002026-07-08 11:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 12:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 12:002026-07-08 12:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 13:00:00 UTC000
Jul 8, 13:002026-07-08 13:00:00 UTC2026-07-08 14:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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What stood out to me more than this particular project is the visible acceleration of a phenomenon many of us could foresee, especially over the last year or so: people can build a version of the same idea faster than ever. After like 10 minutes of searching I found multiple similar swift projects (most of them are just a couple of weeks or months old): https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app https://github.com/nico81/iContainer https://github.com/wouterdebie/davit https://github.com/Augani/dory https://github.com/tofa84/berth https://github.com/erdaltoprak/ContainerUtility https://github.com/andrew-waters/orchard There were more if you include ones with fewer GitHub stars, CLI-only, non-Swift etc. but you get the idea. People will increasingly be able to build their own version of the software they want. As that happens the value of som
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eone else's decreases. The era of hyper-personal software is coming.
In Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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