Pratik Garg

Pratik Garg

DeskArcadeDeskArcade
Reimagining how people work

About

I've loved building things for 20 years. I spent much of that designing and building trading systems for investment banks high-stakes, performance-critical software where reliability wasn't optional. These days I'm doing what I enjoy most: building Mac and iOS productivity apps, trying to change how people work. DeskArcade is one of them tiny games that live over your real desktop. I ship, I listen, and I build the things I want to use.

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Tastemaker
Tastemaker
Gone streaking
Gone streaking

Maker History

  • DeskArcade
    DeskArcadeAn arcade in your menu bar - playable over anything
    Jun 2026
  • CodeStack AI
    CodeStack AIStacking Knowledge, One Code Block at a Time
    Oct 2023
  • 🎉
    Joined Product HuntOctober 14th, 2023

Forums

What would you want DeskArcade to do beyond games?

DeskArcade launched as 10 tiny games that live over your desktop but a few people have started asking "what else could this do?", and honestly I'm curious where the community's head is at.

The core of it isn't really the games it's the transparent layer that floats over your real screen and can react to what you're doing, without taking over your workflow. Games are just the first thing living on it.

So I'm genuinely asking: what would you want on that layer?

A few directions I've been mulling:

Pratik Garg

6h ago

DeskArcade - An arcade in your menu bar - playable over anything

A native macOS menu-bar app that drops a transparent arcade of ten micro-games over your real desktop. Press ⌘⌥B, play for 90 seconds, press it again ,it's gone. Free, notarised, doesn't touch your real apps.
Pratik Garg

2yr ago

CodeStack AI - Stacking Knowledge, One Code Block at a Time

CodeStack AI is a revolutionary platform that redefines the way people learn to code. With our interactive approach, we put the power of coding in your hands, allowing you to learn by doing, code by code with help of AI.
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