ShowroomWindow for Shop-Floor Dashboards
A kiosk-style app for small retail and service businesses that turns any web dashboard (Shopify, Square, Toast) into a clean, always-on display behind the counter with no browser UI leaking into the screen.
independent retailers, café owners, and salon managers who want to display live sales, queue, or review dashboards on a wall or counter screen
- Point the app at a dashboard URL; it loads fullscreen with zero chrome and auto-rotates through configured views
- Sleep/wake schedule tied to business hours so the screen turns on at open and off at close
- Offline fallback that shows last-known KPI tiles when the internet drops
- Remote 'panic hide' from a phone if a customer-facing screen shows something embarrassing
Small businesses increasingly rely on web dashboards but lack a clean way to put them on a wall; the chromeless pattern proves the underlying tech is one Swift file.
No dedicated search results surfaced for small retailers/cafes wanting to display live web dashboards on counter screens; use case is plausible but niche — kiosk apps like mackiosk and dotKiosk exist for general web kiosks but the shop-floor dashboard display category is thin.Kiosk App - App Store ↗dotKiosk Full Screen Browser - App Store ↗
Market is crowded with both macOS kiosk browsers (mackiosk, dotKiosk, xStand, aqua-kiosk-os) and full digital signage suites (OptiSigns, Yodeck, ScreenCloud, Rise Vision); the 'chromeless' angle is technically trivial and easily replicated.Kiosk - mackiosk.com ↗
Digital signage category has established willingness to pay (OptiSigns and peers run paid plans typically $10–30+/screen/mo per public listings), but indie retailers/cafes are price-sensitive and the value-add over a free fullscreen browser shortcut is thin.Kiosk App - App Store ↗
Underlying need (dashboards on wall screens) is durable, but the product is structurally fragile: browsers already ship fullscreen/kiosk modes, dashboard vendors (Shopify, Square, Toast) can add their own display modes natively, and macOS Guided Access/Managed Configuration further erodes the moat.Kiosk App - App Store ↗
Original GitHub reference (~177 stars, one Swift file) shows the chromeless approach is small and proven; macOS also exposes native kiosk/fullscreen APIs (WebKit, AppKit), so building a v1 is well within a solo developer or weekend scope.