The App Store may suggest a useful app to you from time to time, but you cannot rely on it to discover new apps. Places like Reddit or Product Hunt communities can also be very broad for what you are looking for.
So a team of engineers from Basedash, a startup that helps companies connect their databases to admin panels, created a product called Dockhunt that lets you discover new Mac apps by checking out the docks.
The idea is simple: people post their Mac docks on the site and others can watch them as if they were exploring their own dock. The Dockhunt site also has a Top Apps list which shows how many users have this app pinned to their docks. App makers told TechCrunch they’re considering implementing a filter that would filter out popular apps like Chrome, Slack and Spotify so users can discover unrelated apps.
Basedash’s team says designer Tom Johnson came up with the idea of creating a tool for users to browse a Mac dock on the web. A few engineers were involved in building Dockhunt, which was finally released late last month.
If you want to publish your own dock, you will need to download the Dockhunt app and run it. Alternatively, you can also use a command line method to publish the dock. Notably, Dockhunt only captures pinned apps and not apps that are open but don’t have a permanent place in your dock. As of this writing, over 1,100 people have posted their docks on the site.
Currently, the site displays the dock with the username or Twitter handle. The Dockhunt team is also considering a mode that will allow people to post their docks anonymously.
