agents-dont-sleep
Close the lid, let your agents cook. A tiny tray app that keeps your laptop awake (lid shut, in your bag) only while Claude Code, Codex & friends are working, then lets it sleep. macOS · Windows · Linux.
Details
- External ID
- 1382509781
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- agents-dont-sleep
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.14514476044068664
- Tags
- ai-agents, caffeinate, claude-code, codex, coding-agents, developer-tools, gemini-cli, keep-awake, lid-closed, linux, macos, menu-bar-app, opencode, prevent-sleep, productivity, react, rust, system-tray, tauri, windows
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- tray app that prevents laptop sleep while coding agents run
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a desktop tray utility (using Rust/Tauri, Go, or Python) that inspects running processes or network activity and toggles OS sleep prevention APIs like IOKit or SetThreadExecutionState.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 82 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #78 of 83 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 238 days after the earliest competitor.
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- NoSleepAgent · hn · 2026-06-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Modafinil · hn · 2026-05-10 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Don't Lock My PC · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Keep My Screen On! · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PowerLockGuard · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Open Caffeine · ph · 2026-06-01 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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