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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.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a dev tools tool for Sales yet.