SoloDisplay
disable ur macbook's panel when an external display connects
Details
- External ID
- 1255244
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- SoloDisplay
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Open Source
- Fetched at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Apple doesn't expose a way to achieve this in macOS. Windows has had this feature forever. So I created this free and open source tool that finally gives you this option! Clamshell mode without closing the lid! Just install it with brew or click the download button in the Github page and you're ready to go
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- display management utility for macbook users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Controlling internal display power while keeping clamshell mode active on modern macOS requires deep reverse engineering of private CoreDisplay/SkyLight frameworks and IOKit APIs.
What it would actually take: This utility requires low-level macOS system programming in Swift/Objective-C/C using undocumented private frameworks (specifically CoreDisplay, SkyLight, or IOReporting/IOPM). Developers must hook into internal display management daemons and handle proprietary Apple Silicon display controller behaviors without tripping system kernel panics or SIP restrictions.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 336 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #220 of 337 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- hinge · github · 2026-09-10 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep · hn · 2026-03-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Pocket Screen · ph · 2026-07-17 · 207 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- softfold · github · 2026-09-12 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Mac Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- MoniVol · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Resettle · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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- No other launches for this product.
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