Don't Lock My PC
Stop screen locks & sleep during long autonomous AI runs
Details
- External ID
- 1246052
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Don't Lock My PC
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
Description
Long-running AI agents, model downloads, and automated workflows shouldn't be interrupted by corporate lock screens or sleep timers. Don't Lock My PC keeps your system awake without registry hacks, then auto-powers down when your work is finished.
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- prevent screen locks during long automated tasks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight desktop wrapper or script calling standard OS power management APIs (such as `SetThreadExecutionState` on Windows or `caffeinate` / `IOPMAssertionCreateWithName` on macOS) via a simple Python/Electron UI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 96 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 97 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
- PowerLockGuard · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Keep My Screen On! · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- HyperSleep · ph · 2026-06-12 · 237 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- agents-dont-sleep · github · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Essence · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- D.off · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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