Kipless
A lightweight macOS utility for controlling system and display sleep.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 95%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 453 launches, 36 in the last 7 days ▼ -18% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- iokit
- macos
- menu-bar
- open-source
- sleep
- swift
- +2 more
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More like this: all 453 launches in macos system utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes A standard macOS menu bar app wrapping Apple's `IOPMAssertionCreateWithName` API (similar to Caffeine or Amphetamine) to prevent sleep.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2345 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2244 of 2346 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- caffeinate-plus · github · 2026-10-23 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- mac-insomnia · github · 2026-10-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- timebar · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Vitals · hn · 2026-09-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Calyx · hn · 2026-03-12 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Wokyintosh · github · 2026-09-09 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- WakeBee · github · 2026-10-13 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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