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My Mac kept dinging and I never knew why, so I built an app for it

(Launch discount code for redditors at the bottom, valid until Sunday.) So... sometimes my Mac just makes a noise, some ding I've never heard before. The last one, the sound that made me build this, turned out to be the Threads website. Apparently there's a DM sound now... Anyway, I built Soundtrail for this. It's a menu bar app that logs every time an app starts playing audio: the latest sound, which app played it, and a history you can search. I didn't want a history of ev

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痛点：Mac 会突然发出未知提示音，用户无法定位是哪个应用或网页触发，排查成本高。

目标用户：被 macOS 神秘提示音困扰的普通 Mac 用户、远程会议/专注工作者、开发者。

证据：My Mac kept dinging and I never knew why, so I built an app for it. The last one, the sound that made me build this, turned out to be the Threads website. It's a menu bar app that logs every time an app starts playing audio: the latest sound, which app played it, and a history you can search. $4.99 one-time, 7-day free trial. Discount code at checkout: REDDIT gets it for $1.99 until Sunday.

变现：一次性买断 $4.99，提供 7 天免费试用，并用 Reddit 折扣 $1.99 促销；后续可加 Pro 高级过滤、云同步或团队版。

MVP：用 Swift/SwiftUI 做菜单栏 App，监听系统音频播放事件，记录时间、App/网页来源、声音名称，支持搜索历史和忽略列表；不做录音，全部本地存储。2 周内可完成基础版。

竞品：SoundSource、Background Music、Audio Hijack

摘要：开发者因 Mac 频繁发出未知提示音、最终发现来自 Threads 网页 DM 音效，做了菜单栏应用 Soundtrail，用于记录并回溯是哪个 App/网页在播放声音。定价 $4.99 买断、7 天试用，Reddit 折扣 $1.99；核心难点是 macOS 系统通知音和 WebKit helper 进程的真实来源追踪。需求真实但尚未看到付费用户量或收入验证。