Tether - A ball for boring meetings to keep you busy

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A ball hangs from your Mac menu bar on an elastic tether. Drag it, fling it, slingshot it. It bounces off your actual app windows, rolls along their edges and settles into the Dock. Cut the rope and it goes loose across the desktop. Real physics, not a canned animation, so it never does the same thing twice. One key hides it the instant somebody says your name. No account, no subscription, nothing leaves your Mac.

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Hey Product Hunt. I was looking for something to keep my hands busy during long work meetings. Pens, cables, the corner of a notebook, the usual. So I made this instead: a ball that hangs off the Mac menu bar on an elastic tether. What it does: - Drag it, fling it, slingshot it. The tether stretches and snaps back. - Real physics against your real windows. The ball lands on their top edges, rolls along them, and reacts when you move them. - Cut the rope and it comes loose across the desktop, bouncing off whatever is in the way. - Seven balls, each with its own weight, grip and bounce. - Tune gravity, bounce, size and rope length live, or leave the presets alone. - One key hides it the instant somebody says your name. - No account, no subscription, no telemetry. Nothing leaves your Mac. It is a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store, and it is built for macOS 14 and later. Happy to answer anything. If the physics feels wrong somewhere, tell me, that is the part I will keep tuning.

:D Good launch on Monday when we have Sprint :D

 :D Sprint planning is the natural habitat for this thing, so consider Monday a field test.

This instantly caught my attention for today's launch. I have ADHD, and I usually need something to tinker with while listening. haha I can also imagine my students using this.