BlurShield
Blur and lock your mac the moment your lid starts closing
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BlurShield blurs your screen the instant your lid starts closing, a paired device goes out of range, or you hit a keyboard shortcut — Touch ID brings it right back. Choose what protects you: a lid-angle sensor, a Bluetooth device that walks out of range with you, or a shortcut you trigger yourself. BlurShield also includes Espresso, a caffeinate replacement built in: keep your Mac awake through long builds, renders, or downloads, without digging through Energy Saver settings every time.
PH · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: screen privacy and sharing utilities · 52 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Privacy
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Could you build this?
Partial Basic shortcuts are easy, but hooking into the hardware lid-angle sensor, CoreBluetooth RSSI tracking in real-time, and macOS lock screen APIs requires low-level Darwin/IOKit programming.
What it would actually take: The app requires a native Swift/Objective-C codebase querying private IOKit/AppleHID APIs (specifically looking for the lid angle sensor present in Apple Silicon MacBooks via AppleLMUController or AppleSMC) alongside CoreBluetooth peripheral RSSI monitoring to calculate proximity. Developers need low-level macOS system programming expertise and security entitlement workarounds to intercept screen locks seamlessly.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 701 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #160 of 702 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
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