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Isly
Your MacBook notch, brought to life.
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Your MacBook notch, brought to life.
7 followers
Isly turns the MacBook notch into a living control center: music from any app with cover art and scrubber, live timers and calendar events, clean volume/brightness readouts, and more - all without leaving your workflow. Light on resources (≈0.2% CPU idle, ~49 MB RAM), smooth animations, and a one-time €3.99 license with free updates. For macOS 14+ with a notch.
Products used by Isly
Explore the tech stack and tools that power Isly. See what products Isly uses for development, design, marketing, analytics, and more.
Design & Creative 1
Design & Creative 1
Tailwind CSSA utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development
5.0 (246 reviews)
isly.app is plain HTML with no framework, so component libraries built for React (shadcn/ui, Radix, HeroUI) didn't fit. Tailwind v4 gave me utilities right in the markup, design tokens like one card radius and shadow in a single place, and a tiny stylesheet (about 40 KB) without a big build setup.
Engineering & Development 1
Engineering & Development 1
CloudflareThe web performance & security company
5.0 (262 reviews)
The site is a handful of static pages, and Workers serves them from the edge for free on my own domain, with clean URLs (/privacy instead of /privacy.html) and a proper 404. Every push deploys automatically from GitHub Actions, and it needs no cookies or analytics, which keeps the privacy policy short.
General 1
General 1
Lemon SqueezySell digital products the easy-peasy way
4.8 (85 reviews)
Also considered:
StripeAs a solo developer selling to customers worldwide, I didn't want to deal with VAT and sales tax myself. Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record and handles payment, tax, invoices and refunds. It also comes with licence keys and an API to activate them per Mac, so Isly could check licences without a server of my own. Stripe would have meant building all of that.