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Don't Lock My PC

Stop screen locks & sleep during long autonomous AI runs

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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.

PH · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • GitHub

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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 : 265 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #80 of 266 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.

  • PowerLockGuard · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • Hold Sleep · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Keep My Screen On! · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Keep Screen On · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Lockpaw · ph · 2026-10-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Awakado · ph · 2026-10-06 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • HyperSleep · ph · 2026-06-12 · 237 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Adrafinil · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51

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