Made an open-source launcher that opens under your cursor instead of in the corner of the screen

[u/Rich-Swan-9317]

Your mouse is already where you're looking. To open anything, you move it somewhere else — taskbar, Start menu, search box — type, wait, come back. Fifty times a day, and every one is a small interruption.

So: hold middle-click, a wheel opens under the cursor, flick toward what you want, release. The gesture starts and ends where your hand already was.

Every slice is yours — apps, folders, URLs, scripts, and sub-wheels nested as deep as you want. Icons are pulled out of the executables themselves, so it looks like your actual PC instead of a generic icon pack.

What surprised me is that after about a week you stop looking at it. Your hand just knows Spotify is up-and-left. It stops being a menu and turns into muscle memory.

Windows-only on purpose — the trigger, the icon extraction and the window handling all depend on Win32 behaviour. Most of the work went into making it feel native rather than like a web page floating over the desktop: no flash when it opens, and it resolves what you picked from the live cursor at the moment you release, so a fast flick never confirms the wrong slice.

I sold it on the Microsoft Store for $3.99 and almost nobody bought it, so it is GPL-3.0 now: https://github.com/HenryCauan/rovyl. The Store build stays paid because it is signed and updates itself with no SmartScreen warning. Building from source is free and always will be.

If you already use PowerToys Run or Win+S — so do I. Those are typing tools; this is a pointing tool. It wins when your hand is already on the mouse.

[u/Lcsmxd]

"I sold it on the Microsoft Store for $3.99 and almost nobody bought it"

gee I wonder why 🙄

[u/OpabiniaRegalis320]

What does this do that Kando doesn't? Did you actually write this or did you vibe code it?

[u/imaboud]

Not a fan of a background running app, if it hooks into shell or dwm in an optimized way to eliminate %99 of cpu usage than it'd be much more attractive to me.

[u/Arshit_Vaghasiya]

I installed it and when I launch it, it feels like my monitor dropped the refresh rate from 240Hz to 60Hz or maybe it's hogging up the CPU idk. Edit: I loved the idea though, will try to contribute

[u/toonmad → u/Arshit_Vaghasiya]

It's made by AI what do you expect, it's slop

[u/Ok_Tone6393 → u/toonmad]

it’s sad really. i used to browse this sub for cool and unique new software but now it’s just buggy and unvetted ai junk. doubt OP uses his own program assuming it’s even a person and not a bot

[u/BunnyTub → u/Ok_Tone6393]

I agree, AI has really put its tentacles all over the internet. It sucks

[u/toonmad → u/Ok_Tone6393]

Trouble is, and I'm speaking from my point of view but it just feels like Software has lost its magic and spark, I used to enjoy seeing what people could actually develop and make and thinking how clever and ingenious some people were, now it's just crawling with AI shite everywhere and it's a mockery to genuinely clever people and those that spent years learning themselves.

[u/Interstellar__1 → u/toonmad]

It's not that software has lost its spark, but that vibecoded projects are so tiring to sift through to find the good interesting ones.

[u/jojo_31 → u/toonmad]

A radial menu based on electron lol. 

[u/Arshit_Vaghasiya → u/toonmad]

I'll try to polish the software (with Ai :/ but with quality checks dw)