u/Adept_Storm805

I’m an indie developer who has built and launched macOS, iOS, and web apps that generate real revenue.

I’m looking for someone who understands market trends and can help grow my presence on Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, and similar platforms. Whether you call yourself a co-founder, growth partner, or just someone who likes helping — the title doesn’t matter, the results do.

What’s in it for you: Revenue share on what we grow together.

If you’re someone who lives and breathes audience-building and organic marketing, drop a comment or DM me.

I’m an indie developer who has built and launched macOS, iOS, and web apps that generate real revenue.

I’m looking for someone who understands market trends and can help grow my presence on Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, and similar platforms. Whether you call yourself a co-founder, growth partner, or just someone who likes helping — the title doesn’t matter, the results do.

What’s in it for you: Revenue share on what we grow together.

If you’re someone who lives and breathes audience-building and organic marketing, drop a comment or DM me.

I’m an indie developer who has built and launched macOS, iOS, and web apps that generate real revenue.

I’m looking for someone who understands market trends and can help grow my presence on Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, and similar platforms. Whether you call yourself a co-founder, growth partner, or just someone who likes helping — the title doesn’t matter, the results do.
What’s in it for you: Revenue share on what we grow together.

If you’re someone who lives and breathes audience-building and organic marketing, drop a comment or DM me.

​Googly X Uchiha a pair of animated eyes in your menu bar that follow your cursor in real time. That's it. That's the whole pitch.

Comparison:

The classic macOS alternative is googly eyes, from which I took inspiration and tried to add a theme in the googly eyes.

How it works:

Core Graphics renders each eye style at native resolution. Your cursor position is tracked continuously - the pupils follow it across the full screen, smooth and responsive, no lag. Click anywhere and the eyes blink.

There are 17 styles. 16 Naruto-universe designs for everyone else Three Tomoe Sharingan, Itachi's Mangekyo, Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyo, Kakashi/Obito, Madara, Shisui, Kamui, Rinnegan, Rinne-Sharingan, and more.

Sharingan styles have an optional tomoe spin. Toggle it on, and the pattern rotates in sync with the tracking. It stays smooth. It looks exactly as unhinged as it sounds.

What it doesn't do:

• No Dock icon
• No windows
• No setup screen

Right-click the eyes, pick your style, done. Your preference is saved. Every launch, same eyes, same settings, already watching.

Pricing: $4.99 lifetime

AI Disclaimer: Code completion used during development. The eyes are not AI. They just watch.

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I've been building small macOS apps on the side for a while now, and yesterday I finally shipped one that felt genuinely fun to make: Googly X Uchiha.

It's a menu bar app that puts animated eyes in your macOS menu bar that follow your cursor around in real time. Classic googly eyes - but the real hook is the 16 Naruto-themed eye styles: Sharingan, Mangekyo Sharingan (Itachi, Sasuke, Kakashi, Madara, Shisui), Rinnegan, Rinne-Sharingan, Byakugan. Blink on click, optional spinning tomoe.

I'm a Naruto fan myself and honestly just wanted Itachi's eyes staring back at me while I work. So I built it.

Woke up this morning to my first sale. For a side project, that feeling is unbeatable.

A few things I'd tell anyone thinking about a side hustle like this:

- Build for a fandom: Fans already have the passion and identity. You're not convincing them to care they already do. You just have to show up with the right thing.

- Small and specific beats big and broad: A menu bar app for Naruto fans on Mac is a tiny market, but it's a real one. Nobody else is doing exactly this.

- Ship the weird idea: I almost talked myself out of this one. "Who's going to pay for googly eyes?" Apparently, people will.

- Low overhead = low pressure: No servers, no subscriptions, no support nightmares. Just a DMG file and a happy customer.

Still very early and I have no idea where this goes, but first customer on day one felt like validation enough to keep going.

Happy to answer anything about building Mac apps, finding a niche, or the indie side hustle grind in general!

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Yesterday I shipped Googly X Uchiha - a macOS menu bar app that puts animated eyes in your menu bar.

The twist: you can swap the classic googly eyes for 16 Naruto-themed eye styles Sharingan, Mangekyo Sharingan (Itachi, Sasuke, Kakashi/Obito, Madara, Shisui, Indra...), Rinnegan, Rinne-Sharingan, Byakugan. All rendered natively with Core Graphics, blinking on click, with optional tomoe spinning.

I built it because I'm a Naruto fan and thought. why should my menu bar be boring? Turns out other fans feel the same way. Woke up to my first sale this morning and honestly didn't expect it that fast.

The niche angle was intentional. "Sharingan in your menu bar" is infinitely more compelling to the right person than "animated cursor tracker." Building for a fandom gives you a built-in audience that already has the vocabulary, the passion, and the willingness to buy something just because it makes them smile.

What I took away from this:

- Niche + identity > broad utility. Fans buy things that express who they are

- Menu bar apps punch above their weight, small surface area, surprisingly delightful

- Ship the silly idea.

Still super early, but the first customer hit different. Happy to talk Mac app development or fandom-niche distribution if anyone's curious!

So I was building boring productivity utilities and decided to take a break and build something stupid fun.

Googly X Uchiha puts animated eyes in your macOS menu bar that follow your cursor in real time. Classic googly eyes if you're normal. Sharingan, Mangekyo Sharingan, Rinnegan if you're a Naruto fan.

17 Sharingan variants — Itachi, Sasuke, Kakashi, Madara, Shisui and more. All rendered with Core Graphics, not just PNG assets. Optional tomoe spin. Blinks every time you click. 60 FPS tracking.

Completely useless. Absolutely worth it.

macOS app I built to fix one tiny but genuinely annoying problem: scroll direction fights between your trackpad and external mouse.

The problem it solves:

macOS has a single global scroll direction setting. Natural scrolling feels right on a trackpad it mimics how your phone works, and content follows your fingers. But on an external mouse, that same setting feels completely backwards to most people.

So you're stuck. Either your trackpad feels wrong, or your mouse does. And every time you switch devices, the frustration is there.

The "fix" most people use: go to System Settings → Mouse → toggle Scroll Direction. Every. Single. Time.

Comparison:

You can manually flip the scroll setting each time you plug in or unplug a mouse. Takes about 10 seconds, but it breaks your flow, and you'll forget half the time.

Some people use Scroll Reverser or Mos. Both are solid apps. NaturalMouse is narrower in scope it does exactly one thing, with no config screen to navigate.

There's no "set it up" step. Grant Accessibility permission, launch it, done.

How it works:

It uses a system-wide CGEventTap approach to intercept scroll events before they reach any app. Each event is tagged by macOS as coming from either a trackpad (continuous) or a mouse (discrete). NaturalMouse only inverts the mouse events the trackpad is untouched.

IOKit watches for device connect/disconnect. Plug in a mouse: scroll flips within a second. Unplug it: flips back. No polling. No manual action.

What it doesn't do:

• No Dock icon
• No onboarding flow
• No settings screen
• 0% CPU at idle, under 1ms per scroll event when active

Pause/resume from the menu bar if you ever need it. Launch at login. That's the whole app.

Pricing: $4.99 lifetime — use code NATURAL50 for 50% off.
NaturalMouse

AI Disclaimer: Code completion used during development. There are no AI features in the app.

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So for context I'm an indie developer. I build small macOS utilities mostly as side projects nothing crazy, just apps I personally needed or thought were fun to make.

For the past couple of months my only focus was shipping. The idea of paying for an Apple Developer license and having nothing to show for it haunted me, so I just started building. I looked at my own pain points, built around them, and kept going. Right now I've successfully launched 5 macOS apps.

Initially I created a separate website for each product did that for the first two but quickly realized that wasn't scalable. So I decided to build my own app directory where I could feature all of them in one place. That's how Macoshunt was born.

I was just experimenting. Ended up with Sharingan in my menu bar.

No plan. No market research. Just me messing around with Core Graphics on a Sunday.

I had this old googly eyes app, eyes that follow your cursor in the menu bar. Dumb, fun, nothing serious. Then I thought... what if instead of googly eyes, they were something cooler?

Started replacing the artwork. One thing led to another. Suddenly, I thought of converting the eyes into sharingan.

17 eye styles later - Sharingan, Mangekyo, Rinnegan - the experiment had accidentally become a product "Googly X Uchiha"

Still not sure what I built. A utility? A toy?

Shipping weird things and seeing what sticks. That's the whole strategy.

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